#erin

If your parent is deployed and you are that young, you spend the whole time wondering where they are and waiting for them to come home. As time passes and the absence is longer and longer, you become more and more concerned - but you don't really have the words to express your concern. There's only this continued absence. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#become #come #concern #concerned #continued

Remembering that the man who always fights one more round is never whipped. ↗

— James J. Corbett

#fights #man #more #never #remembering

If the new American father feels bewildered and even defeated, let him take comfort from the fact that whatever he does in any fathering situation has a fifty percent chance of being right. ↗

— Bill Cosby

#any #being #bewildered #chance #comfort

Most of my adult life I had this towering contempt for America. ↗

— Robert Crumb

#adult life #america #contempt #had #i

I had to know if I could make it somewhere else. I did not want to go through the rest of my life wondering what might have been without putting myself to the test. ↗

— Kenny Dalglish

#could #did #else #go #had

It's perseverance that's the key. It's persevering for long enough to achieve your potential. ↗

— Lynn Davies

#enough #key #long #perseverance #persevering

It is quite annoying that we have to change the sound we invented just to avoid sounding like people who simply copy us, but... it is flattering and of course challenging. ↗

— Jonathan Davis

#avoid #challenging #change #copy #course

It was quite a ride and very conflicting for me, too - to be nominated for an Oscar, to be straight and healthy, and to be getting all these accolades while these people around me were suffering and dying from AIDS. ↗

— Bruce Davison

#aids #around #conflicting #dying #getting

People who are in power make their arrangements in secret, largely as a way of maintaining and furthering that power. ↗

— Don DeLillo

#arrangements #furthering #largely #maintaining #make

The lot of man is to suffer and die.What's gone is of no consequence. ↗

— Steve Berry

#men #suffering #life