#hood

Everybody in America is soft, and hates conflict. The cure for this, both in politics and social life, is the same - hardihood. Give them raw truth. ↗

— John Jay Chapman

#both #conflict #cure #everybody #give

Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age. ↗

— Lydia M. Child

#cheerful #childhood #itself #kindly #lovely

Adolescence is the conjugator of childhood and adulthood. ↗

— Louise J. Kaplan

#adolescence #adulthood #childhood

There's no doubt that motherhood is the best thing in my life. It's all that really matters. ↗

— Courteney Cox

#doubt #life #matters #motherhood #my life

I've always reverted to a sense of childhood, just in everyday life. ↗

— Daniel Craig

#childhood #everyday #everyday life #i #just

Responsibility is the thing people dread most of all. Yet it is the one thing in the world that develops us, gives us manhood or womanhood fiber. ↗

— Frank Crane

#dread #fiber #gives #manhood #most

When (The World According To) Garp was published, people who’d lost children wrote to me. ‘’I lost one, too,’’ they told me. I confessed to them that I hadn’t lost any children. I’m just a father with a good imagination. In my imagination, I lose my children every day. (afterword) ↗

— John Irving

#imagination #parenthood #death

My whole world before I joined the Navy was my neighborhood in the Bronx. ↗

— Tony Curtis

#bronx #i #joined #navy #neighborhood

I am among the few who continue to draw after childhood is ended, continuing and perfecting childhood drawing - without the traditional interruption of academic training. ↗

— Saul Steinberg

#after #am #among #childhood #continue

Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#blunder #manhood #old #old age #regret