#hood

When I did 'Boyz N The Hood', I never thought how we grew up in South Central was interesting enough for a movie. ↗

— Ice Cube

#did #enough #grew #hood #how

I think the Lower East Side inspires me. That whole neighborhood, a lot of the people that I worked with, seeing what we've gone through in life, being given an opportunity to understand who I am; my identity, my culture, and my roots. ↗

— Luis Guzman

#being #culture #east #east side #given

Since human fatherhood, as a reflection of the Fatherhood of God, was designed to be the pillar of the family, the disappearance of esteem for fatherhood has led to the collapse of that pillar and to the disintegration of the family. ↗

— Joseph A. Cirrincione

#life #p #design

I had a career and I came to motherhood late and am not married and have never had such a trusting relationship with a man - and trust is where the real power of love comes from. ↗

— Diane Keaton

#came #career #comes #had #i

I also developed an interest in sports, and played in informal games at a nearby school yard where the neighborhood children met to play touch football, baseball, basketball and occasionally, ice hockey. ↗

— Steven Chu

#baseball #basketball #children #developed #football

If we can't have comedy books written about aspects of womanhood without going into a panic attack about it, then we haven't got very far at being equal. ↗

— Helen Fielding

#aspects #attack #being #books #comedy

I just wrote about childhood as I had known it. ↗

— Beverly Cleary

#childhood #had #i #just #known

I was a very observant child. The boys in my books are based on boys in my neighborhood growing up. ↗

— Beverly Cleary

#books #child #growing #growing up #i

Quite often somebody will say, What year do your books take place? and the only answer I can give is, In childhood. ↗

— Beverly Cleary

#books #childhood #give #i #i can

In childhood I developed a serious throat infection, and my heart stopped beating. I recovered from that illness with a voice that boomed forth like Kate Smith's! ↗

— Patsy Cline

#childhood #developed #forth #heart #i