#had

My uncle Sammy was an angry man. He had printed on his tombstone: What are you looking at? ↗

— Margaret Smith

#angry #had #his #looking #man

If I had been the Virgin Mary, I would have said "No." ↗

— Margaret Smith

#had #i #mary #said #would

As an artist, I used to think that my responsibility was to do good work. But I had to learn from the '70s on that being a public figure presents another aspect of responsibility. ↗

— Patti Smith

#artist #aspect #being #figure #good

I've said to others that there were places I had forgotten about that were just so powerful. I've read the Gospels many times, but it's been a while since I've read through a whole book. ↗

— Michael W. Smith

#been #book #forgotten #gospels #had

I had a really happy childhood - my siblings were great, my mother was very fanciful, and I loved to read. But there was always financial strife. ↗

— Patti Smith

#childhood #fanciful #financial #great #had

I had to learn, really, how to rein in my energies and discipline myself. And I found it very very useful. I rebelled against it at first, but it's a good thing to have. ↗

— Patti Smith

#against #discipline #energies #first #found

I wrote every day. I don't think I could have written 'Just Kids' had I not spent all of the 80s developing my craft as a writer. ↗

— Patti Smith

#craft #day #developing #every #every day

I felt I couldn't be a good mom anymore, but I didn't want my children to grow up without a mom. I felt I had to end our lives to protect us from any grief or harm. ↗

— Susan Smith

#anymore #children #end #felt #good

I had never felt so lonely and so sad in my entire life. ↗

— Susan Smith

#entire life #felt #had #i #life

I gradually became persuaded that the subjects, without intending to, had revealed to me a basic truth about markets that was foreign to the literature of economics. ↗

— Vernon L. Smith

#basic #became #economics #foreign #gradually