#hood

This is what I want. I want people to take care of me. I want them to force comfort upon me. I want the soft-pillow feeling that I associate with memories of being ill when I was younger, soft pillows and fresh linens and satin-edged blankets and hot chocolate. It's not so much the comfort itself as knowing there's someone who wants to take care of you. ↗

— Franny Billingsley

#comfort #family #love #nostalgia #wistful

I was never very good with either my hands or feet. It always seemed to me they'd just been stuck on as an afterthought during my making. Dreams didn't translate through sports, or music, dancing, carpentry, plumbing. I was the bookish kid, more at home in the pages of a fantasy than in the room in the town on the planet. ↗

— Steve Rasnic Tem

#carpentry #childhood #dancing #dreams #fantasy

Childhood obesity is best tackled at home through improved parental involvement, increased physical exercise, better diet and restraint from eating. ↗

— Bob Filner

#best #better #childhood #diet #eating

I've discovered new parts of my manhood, places I couldn't get to without loving someone else unconditionally and putting others before myself. ↗

— Derek Fisher

#discovered #else #get #i #loving

Being a parent is dirty and scary and beautiful and hard and miraculous and exhausting and thankless and joyful and frustrating all at once. It’s everything. (Confessions of a Scary Mommy, Gallery Books 2012). ↗

— Jill Smokler

#parenting #beauty

Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#early #early childhood #exercising #faculty #had

There's something about strip malls that just reeks of my childhood. ↗

— Dave Foley

#childhood #just #malls #something #strip

I spent a good deal of time going back over my childhood, my midlife, to try to understand who I was. We're supposed to be complete and whole, and you can't be whole if you're trying to be perfect. Doing a life review helped me get over the disease to please. ↗

— Jane Fonda

#childhood #complete #deal #disease #doing

My childhood was influenced by the roles my father played in his movies. Whether Abraham Lincoln or Tom Joad in the 'Grapes of Wrath,' his characters communicated certain values which I try to carry with me to this day. ↗

— Jane Fonda

#abraham lincoln #carry #certain #characters #childhood

I cannot imagine any other country in the world where the opposition would seek, and the chief executive would allow, the dissemination of his most private and personal conversations with his staff, which, to be honest, do not exactly confer sainthood on anyone concerned. ↗

— Gerald R. Ford

#any #anyone #cannot #chief #chief executive