#ear

I'm 0 for 3 with marriage - the scoreboard doesn't lie, never has. So what we all have is a marriage of the heart. To sully or contaminate or radically disrespect this union with a shameful contract is something that I will leave to the amateurs and the Bible grippers. ↗

— Charlie Sheen

#contaminate #contract #disrespect #heart #i

I just had his hand in a vise,” I protested indignantly. “It wasn’t like I had a dagger in his ribs. ‘Hand in a vise’ is simple assault or, in my case, self-defense. ‘Dagger in the ribs’ is attempted murder. My family did teach me the difference. ↗

— Lisa Shearin

#quote #family

Just like that. Gone forever. They will not grow old together. They will never live on a beach by the sea, their hair turned white, dancing in a living room to Billie Holiday or Nat Cole. They will not enter a New York club at midnight and show the poor hip-hop fools how to dance. They will not chuckle together over the endless folly of the world, its vanities and stupid ambitions. They will not hug each other in any chilly New York dawn. Oh, Mary Lou. My baby. My love. ↗

— Pete Hamill

#loss #love #new-york-city #tears #family

I merged those two words, black and feminist, because I was surrounded by black women who were very tough and and who always assumed they had to work and rear children and manage homes. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#assumed #because #black #children #feminist

Well, anything can happen and it happened to me. I learned everybody has a story. ↗

— Kevin Sorbo

#everybody #happen #happened #i #learned

Much has been accomplished during the last year in the campaign against terrorism. This struggle will require vigilance, perseverance and sacrifice for many years to come. ↗

— Paul Cellucci

#against #been #campaign #come #during

Your own family resemblances are a frustrating code, most easily read by those who know you least. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#family #family

Atticus "three kinds of cat shit, Oberon." Oberon "and an arrogant family of squirrels. ↗

— Kevin Hearne

#batman-inuendos #great-swearing #family

Eating connects us to our histories as much as it connects our souls to our bodies, our bodies to the earth. ↗

— Evan D.G. Fraser

#earth #eating #food #history #soul

We teach what we need to learn. And we teach it until we get it. ↗