#hood

Art is not a pastime but a priesthood. ↗

— Jean Cocteau

#pastime #priesthood

Men are recognizing that they have been forced to conform to a very narrow and rather two-dimensional picture of maleness and manhood that they have never had the freedom to question. ↗

— Andrew Cohen

#conform #forced #freedom #had #manhood

And it was because of their long history that he searched for something to say, something that would get them back to where they had been. All that came to him was...I miss you. I miss you so fucking bad it hurts, but I don't know how to find you even though you're right in front of me. ↗

— J.R. Ward

#blaylock #jr-ward #lover-mine #qhuinn #black-dagger-brotherhood

My childhood, I would say, was a bit sad. Society resents that. ↗

— Columba Bush

#childhood #i #resents #sad #say

The greatest thing a father can do for his daughter is to love her mother. ↗

— Elaine S. Dalton

#love #love

School was the unhappiest time of my life and the worst trick it ever played on me was to pretend that it was the world in miniature. For it hindered me from discovering how lovely and delightful and kind the world can be, and how much of it is intelligible. ↗

— E.M. Forster

#education #education

Someone once said that every man is trying to live up to his father's expectations or make up for their father's mistakes.... ↗

— Barack Obama

#legacy #manhood #dreams

I get stubborn and dig in when people tell me I can't do something and I think I can. It goes back to my childhood when I had problems in school because I have a learning disability. ↗

— Ann Bancroft

#because #childhood #dig #disability #get

If I hadn't had a childhood career, I probably would've signed a contract with the first person I came across. ↗

— Shania Twain

#came #career #childhood #contract #first

Those who plead their cause in the absence of an opponent can invent to their heart's content, can pontificate without taking into account the opposite point of view and keep the best arguments for themselves, for aggressors are always quick to attack those who have no means of defence. ↗

— Christine de Pizan

#deceit #defenselessness #double-standards #falsehood #hypocrisy