#comin

It started last year, during the summer. I went to the doctor and they found out it was kidney stones, so they had surgery done to help get those out and to pass them... More just kept coming in. So I had all together before the last show... I had like five surgeries. ↗

— Phillip Phillips

#coming #doctor #done #during #five

She smoothes the front of the dress, looking down at her hands, at her bitten fingernails, at her big feet in the pointy-toes shoes. This is a woman's dress, she thinks, a young woman's dress. It is not a girl's dress. It is solidly on the other side of the line outside of girlhood. It is a dress that says something big in a very quiet way; it is a dress that is talking to Alice right now, a dress that is making her feel possibilities never before considered, the possibility of perfume and pretty and dancing and boys. This dress is who she might be, only more so. ↗

— Laura Harrington

#coming-of-age #father-daughter #fiction #iraq-war #age

Ideal conversation must be an exchange of thought, and not, as many of those who worry most about their shortcomings believe, an eloquent exhibition of wit or oratory. ↗

— Emily Post

#believe #conversation #eloquent #exchange #exhibition

And in this moment, I realize one reason it's so great to have a best friend is sometimes, like right now, Cal and I are thinking the very same thing. ↗

— Kimberly Willis Holt

#death #friendship #vietnam-war #age

Here in Israel, we want the boys back home, we demand it from our government, who often pay a steep price to get hostages back. But we need a happy ending. We don't want to deal with those days after release, their post-trauma or reintroduction to society. Yet coming home is only the start of their journey. ↗

— Gideon Raff

#back #coming #coming home #days #deal

At the end of the day, man, you can't protect yourself from a haymaker that's coming in toward your face if you don't see it coming. ↗

— Busta Rhymes

#day #end #end of the day #face #man

The remarks about my reaching the age of Social Security and coming to the end of the road, they jolted me. And that was good. Because I sure as hell had no intention of just sitting around for the rest of my life. So I'd whip out the paints and really go to it. ↗

— Norman Rockwell

#age #around #because #coming #end

While we are living in the present, we must celebrate life every day, knowing that we are becoming history with every work, every action, every deed. ↗

— Mattie Stepanek

#becoming #celebrate #day #deed #every

I try to choose the songs that really are basically coming from my heart. I think that through the songs that I select, people know what's going on in my life. ↗

— Diana Ross

#choose #coming #going #heart #i

The light you see at the end of the tunnel is the front of an oncoming train. ↗

— David Lee Roth

#end of the tunnel #front #light #oncoming #see