#gr

It’s very simple. As you grow, you learn more. If you stayed at twenty-two, you’d always be as ignorant as you were at twenty-two. Aging is not just decay, you know. It’s growth. It’s more than the negative that you’re going to die, it’s also the positive that you understand you’re going to die, and that you live a better life because of it. ↗

— Mitch Albom

#dying #growth #ignorance #learning #life

There is a lot of room for improvement in Social Security. We owe our children the most financially sound system possible. They will have paid into it their entire working lives. They deserve to be protected by it. for our children and grandchildren. ↗

— Mitch McConnell

#deserve #entire #financially #grandchildren #improvement

We're living under the Obama economy. Any CEO in America with a record like this after three years on the job would be graciously shown the door. This president blames the managers instead. He blames the folks on the shop floor. He blames the weather. ↗

— Mitch McConnell

#america #any #blames #ceo #door

Every piece has its own identity which we develop by the rule 'We know no limits.' We follow the inspiration of the moment and don't worry if what we're playing is alternative, progressive or fusion rock. ↗

— Page McConnell

#develop #every #follow #fusion #identity

Hermione launched herself forwards and started punching every inch of him that she could reach. 'Ouch — ow — gerroff! What the — ? Hermione — OW!' “You — complete — arse — Ronald — Weasley!” She punctuated every word with a blow: Ron backed away, shielding his head as Hermione advanced. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#humor #ron-weasley #death

The ticking of the clock has gotten so loud." - 74 ↗

— Robin Romm

#death-of-a-loved-one #grief #death

I think that's why I like baseball. There's something great about it - you're young, the pitcher's young and he's got this great arm, and he doesn't really realize anything about strategy. ↗

— Bruce McCulloch

#anything #arm #baseball #got #great

I wish I were one of those terribly clever people who, when they write their autobiographies, always say, when I was fifteen months old I distinctly remember my Aunt Fanny saying to me, etc. ↗

— George Seaton

#aunt #autobiographies #clever #clever people #distinctly

Most creative-writing teachers have had the experience of occasionally helping to produce, by accident, a pornographer. ↗

— John Gardner

#art

Growing up is not being so dead-set on making everybody happy. ↗

— Reba McEntire

#everybody #growing #growing up #happy #making