#hood

Fatherhood didn't change me in the beginning very much. ↗

— Tom Sizemore

#change #fatherhood #in the beginning #me #much

You take care of you and your family first. Then you go to your neighborhood, and then you spread it on out within the community. ↗

— Al Smith

#community #family #first #go #neighborhood

The truth cannot be asserted without denouncing the falsehood. ↗

— Leslie Stephen

#cannot #denouncing #falsehood #truth #without

These days, there are a great many books about childhood trauma and its effects, but at the time all the experts agreed that one should forget about it as quickly as possible and pick up where you left off. ↗

— Peter Straub

#agreed #books #childhood #days #effects

When I write about my childhood I think, oh my God, how did I ever get from there to here? Not that any great thing has happened to me. But I felt so tiny, so lost. ↗

— Paul Theroux

#any #childhood #did #ever #felt

I grew up in Los Angeles and always wished I'd spent a childhood in a far different place. ↗

— Berkeley Breathed

#angeles #childhood #different #different place #far

Serial killers are everywhere! Well, perhaps not in our neighborhood, but on our television screens, at the movie theatres, and in rows and rows of books at our local Borders or Barnes and Noble Booksellers. ↗

— Pat Brown

#books #booksellers #borders #everywhere #killers

Memories particularly of when they weren’t being what parents are nine-tenths of the time, the taskmasters, the examples, the moral authorities, the nags of pick-that-up and you’re-going-to-be-late, keepers of the diary of her duties and routines, memories, rather, of when they found one another afresh, beyond the tensions between parental mastery and inept childish uncertainty, of those moments of respite in a family’s life when they could reach one another in calm ↗

— Philip Roth

#parenthood #family

The preparatory education of candidates for knighthood was long and arduous. ↗

— Thomas Bulfinch

#candidates #education #knighthood #long #preparatory

He was so excited. He cut out pictures of these landscapes and neighborhoods and kind of really tried to give you a feel of the movie. It was kind of cute but at the same time it really showed his enthusiasm for it. ↗

— Macaulay Culkin

#cute #enthusiasm #excited #feel #give