#elf

It's not only children who grow. Parents do too. As much as we watch to see what our children do with their lives, they are watching us to see what we do with ours. I can't tell my children to reach for the sun. All I can do is reach for it, myself. ↗

— Joyce Maynard

#grow #i #i can #lives #much

Teach a child to play solitaire, and she'll be able to entertain herself when there's no one around. Teach her tennis, and she'll know what to do when she's on a court. But raise her to feel comfortable in nature, and the whole planet is her home. ↗

— Joyce Maynard

#around #child #comfortable #court #entertain

I've done well for myself. ↗

— Billy Mays

#i #myself #well

I was a baseball player, I taught baseball, and all of a sudden I was in the business world. Now I used the baseball world to talk about their product. Not too much, just enough to keep going. Just be yourself and you'll never have a problem. That's what I did. ↗

— Willie Mays

#ball player #baseball #baseball player #be yourself #business

There's so much importance in honoring your everyday hero. It doesn't take money. It doesn't take connections. What matters is that people get involved. Whether your passion is gun control or food or whatever it may be, everybody needs to stop being so self-absorbed. ↗

— Debi Mazar

#body needs #connections #control #everybody #everyday

I would describe myself as quite sane and lucid, which is why I'm still alive. ↗

— John McAfee

#describe #i #lucid #myself #quite

At an everyday level I would reckon myself more than fortunate. ↗

— Peter Garrett

#fortunate #i #level #more #myself

I never considered myself a fall guy. I know what I did. I know why I did it. I'm not ashamed of it. ↗

— Oliver North

#considered #did #fall #guy #i

If you can play live and support yourself, it's one of the few ways you're going to actually get paid in this business these days. ↗

— Page McConnell

#business #days #few #get #going

I have myself no more doubt that these metals were prepared by the Almighty for this very purpose, than I have that iron and coal were prepared for the purposes in which they are being used. ↗

— Hugh McCulloch

#being #being used #coal #doubt #i