#hood

Acting is my career and activism is my passionate hobby. But acting is my livelihood. ↗

— William Baldwin

#activism #career #hobby #livelihood #passionate

Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable. ↗

— Hosea Ballou

#exaggeration #falsehood #nearly #relation

It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion; it is a joy of every moment. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#act #every #fashion #her #joy

The way Hollywood portrays mothers - you're either all good and saint-like, or you're all bad. And I think the real honesty of motherhood is not given a voice in movies. I miss that as an audience member. ↗

— Ellen Barkin

#audience member #bad #either #given #good

The very desire for guarantees that our values are eternal and secure in some objective heaven is perhaps only a craving for the certainties of childhood or the absolute values of our primitive past. ↗

— Isaiah Berlin

#certainties #childhood #craving #desire #eternal

Everyone, when there's war in the air, learns to live in a new element: falsehood. ↗

— Jean Giraudoux

#element #everyone #falsehood #learns #live

Resting on the roots of this old oak I lean back against his knotted trunk, shine my granny smith on my sleeve And ponder the days… ↗

— Kellie Elmore

#children #coming-of-age #cute #dreamer #dreams

It's often said that a traumatic experience early in life marks a person forever, pulls her out of line, saying, "Stay there. Don't move. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#traumatic-experiences #experience

I was born in Somerville, but I don't remember very much about it because we moved from there to Arlington when I was five years old, and it was in Arlington that I spent most of my childhood. ↗

— Alan Hovhaness

#arlington #because #born #childhood #five

Peter will have a place in this brotherhood forever. ↗

— Tom Brokaw

#forever #peter #place #will