#gr

What I learned growing up on the farm was a way of life that was centered on hard work, and on faith and on thrift. Those values have stuck with me my whole life. ↗

— Rick Perry

#faith #farm #growing #growing up #hard

America's greatness is not found in the size of its government. America's greatness resides in the hearts and the minds of the people. ↗

— Rick Perry

#found #government #greatness #hearts #minds

I am also the product of a place called Paint Creek. Doesn't have a zip code. It's too small to be called a town along the rolling plains of Texas. We grew dryland cotton and wheat, and when I wasn't farming or attending Paint Creek Rural School, I was generally over at Troop 48 working on my Eagle Scout award. ↗

— Rick Perry

#also #am #attending #award #called

I had been writing fiction since I was in eighth grade, because I loved it. ↗

— Thomas Perry

#been #eighth #eighth grade #fiction #grade

I think we did a great job of putting together a program that would have made good e-books available had people been buying e-books in any real numbers. ↗

— Thomas Perry

#available #been #buying #did #good

Reading a novel in which all characters illustrate patience, hard work, chastity, and delayed gratification could be a pretty dull experience. ↗

— Thomas Perry

#chastity #could #delayed #dull #experience

Success consists in being successful, not in having potential for success. Any wide piece of ground is the potential site of a palace, but there's no palace till it's built. ↗

— Fernando Pessoa

#being #built #consists #ground #having

I was coming back from Tel Aviv recently, and we had forty minutes of bumps. I got so scared I grabbed a paper and pen and put them in my pocket, just in case we crashed and I needed to write a letter from wherever we landed. ↗

— Daniela Pestova

#back #bumps #case #coming #crashed

All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

#artists #children #grows #how #once

George M. is where I met my dear friend Joel Grey. We connected at rehearsal one day during a five-minute break. We were both looking out the same window and we knew in five minutes that we'd made a connection. ↗

— Bernadette Peters

#break #connected #connection #day #dear