#hood

The difference between childhood and adulthood, Vic had come to believe, was the difference between imagination and resignation. You traded one for the other and lost your way. ↗

— Joe Hill

#imagination

Music is the one art we all have inside. We may not be able to play an instrument, but we can sing along or clap or tap our feet. Have you ever seen a baby bouncing up and down in the crib in time to some music When you think of it, some of that baby's first messages from his or her parents may have been lullabies, or at least the music of their speaking voices. All of us have had the experience of hearing a tune from childhood and having that melody evoke a memory or a feeling. The music we hear early on tends to stay with us all our lives. ↗

— Fred Rogers

#childhood-memories #music #art

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

These girls probably use double negatives and watch "A Shot at Love with Tila Tequila" with their babies instead of reading Eric Carle. ↗

— Natalie Taylor

#sign-of-life #single-parenting #love

Stand true to your calling to be a man. Real women will always be relieved and grateful when men are willing to be men ↗

— Elisabeth Elliot

#manhood #men

Statistics, likelihoods, and probabilities mean everything to men, nothing to God. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#almighty #god #likelihood #might #omnipotence

I feel like I made it already, because I got already what everybody on the corners of the neighborhood I grew up in is striving to get. ↗

— Lloyd Banks

#because #corners #everybody #feel #get

Resiliency is the essence of a global positive framework... ↗

— Asa Don Brown

#psychologist #psychology #ptsd #recovery #research

Why not wear a scar of Motherhood? Better than a tattoo or a mark of Honor. Let the world know what you've achieved. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#eugenie #motherhood