#ember

My parents moved to Los Angeles when I was really young, but I spent every summer with my grandparents, and I'd stay with my grandfather on the farm in Longview. He was retired from the railroad, and he had a small farm with some cows and some pigs. I remember part of my youth was feeding hogs and plowing fields and stuff, so that's a part of me. ↗

— Forest Whitaker

#cows #every #farm #feeding #fields

Uh…I’ve seen you around here a couple of times,” he said again, staring at the book I held. “‘I had come face to face with some one whose mere personality was so fascinating that, if I allowed it to do so, it would absorb my whole nature, my whole soul, my very art itself.’” I stared. “What?” His lopsided grin spread into a full one, and it felt like someone had socked me in the chest. “It’s a quote from Oscar Wilde’s Dorian Gray. It’s one of my favorite books.” Hot and smart. And apparently he was a real-life boy. ↗

— Jennifer L. Armentrout

#ember #hayden #ya #art

All countries, big or small, strong or weak, are equal members of the United Nations. ↗

— Nong Duc Manh

#countries #equal #members #nations #small

It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember. ↗

— Eugene McCarthy

#dangerous #might #national #people #remember

OFSTED has made large cuts in the paperwork which schools are asked to provide and further steps to reduce the bureaucratic burden will be introduced in September. ↗

— Estelle Morris

#burden #bureaucratic #cuts #further #introduced

And I remember that the editors wanted to have a witness to say that this was really the case, because it was a very sharp picture of the just the face, the head of the fetus inside the womb. ↗

— Lennart Nilsson

#case #editors #face #fetus #head

I remember when I came home from the hospital after having my son, I wore a Narciso Rodriguez black coat. Then, I was using this fragrance that I had created. I walk by that coat, and it still smells like that fragrance. It takes you right there. ↗

— Sarah Jessica Parker

#black #came #coat #created #fragrance

When any organizational entity expands beyond 21 members, the real power will be in some smaller body. ↗

— C. Northcote Parkinson

#beyond #body #entity #expands #members

I try to penetrate the lane like Steve Nash, pass like Jason Kidd, and handle the ball like Allen Iverson. Remember, I said 'try to'. ↗

— Chris Paul

#ball #handle #i #jason #lane

Above all, I am an opera singer. This is how people will remember me. ↗

— Luciano Pavarotti

#am #how #i #i am #me