#ect

I'd been doing projects outdoors for the public. I made pigeons eat geometry by putting bread out in rhomboids and triangles. I don't know if this activity made sense, but the work was available. ↗

— Jenny Holzer

#available #been #bread #doing #eat

I'm just one woman away, my mother, from being the same as Mike Tyson. I would've ended up like him if my mama had not been so tough and strong. A lot of people, including Mike, don't know I came from the ghetto. They think I'm too nice and proper. But that's the way my mama raised me - to look people in the eye and respect them. ↗

— Evander Holyfield

#been #being #came #ended #eye

But when we have families, when we have children, this gives us a purpose for being, to protect our children, to avoid going to jail because if I'm in jail, who looks after my children, who's there for my wife? ↗

— Ernie Hudson

#avoid #because #being #children #families

It's a hard call, but I've no desire to live my children's lives. I think my job as a father is to protect them, to allow them a safe place to grow up and to teach them what I've learned. ↗

— Ernie Hudson

#call #children #desire #father #grow

Mothers and daughters can stay very connected during teenage years. In the middle of your life, you can become very alone. Even though you're connected deeply to other family members, lovers, husbands, friends. ↗

— Holly Hunter

#become #connected #daughters #deeply #during

We have played a critical role in meeting the new safety standards. The Canadian space industry contributed new tools that make the inspection of the space shuttle possible. ↗

— Marc Garneau

#contributed #critical #critical role #industry #inspection

I think some people wished I'd kept myself out of the book. But I kind of insist on it because I want the reader to share my engagement with the material, if you like, not pretend that I'm doing it completely intellectually. ↗

— Helen Garner

#book #completely #doing #engagement #i

The apathy of the people is enough to make every statue leap from its pedestal and hasten the resurrection of the dead. ↗

— William Lloyd Garrison

#dead #enough #every #hasten #leap

I think there are a lot of myths about MS, and it may have affected my career. ↗

— Teri Garr

#affected #career #i #i think #lot

Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself. ↗

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

#consists #direction #doing #done #each