#i

You care for nothing but shooting, dogs, and rat catching, and you will be a disgrace to yourself and all your family. ↗

— Dr. Charles Darwin -- to his teenage son

#parenting #family

you, who must leave everything/ that you cannot control/ it begins with your family, but soon it comes round/ to your soul/ well, I've been where you're hanging, I think I can see how you're pinned/ when you're not feeling holy, your loneliness says/ that youve sinned ↗

— Leonard Cohen

#family

Atop a Ferris wheel, Orson Welles told Joseph Cotten how Italy's thirty years of war and terror and bloodshed had produced the Renaissance and Michelangelo, and how Switzerland's five hundred years of democracy and peace had produced, goddamn, only the cuckoo clock. ↗

— Kevin Wilson

#family

To err is human. To errah is Kennedy. ↗

— James DeAcutis

#crooks #drunk #kennedy-family #family

Malick to Jacin: "There is no trade anymore, you're not nothing, you didn't kill Caidi, you're going to be the most beautiful-dangerous Incendiary the gods have ever seen, and I fucking love you. Deal with it. ↗

— Carole Cummings

#love #passion #relationship #anger

The family landed in the Western Hemisphere in the person of Roger Blake Wolfe, who arrived with a price on his head. ↗

— James Carlos Blake

#first-sentence #fugitive #family

Duty comes in many forms; at times duty to country may conflict with duty to family. Yet, with a lucid mind the guises can be torn away and in the end, duty becomes but one, and that duty is to value justice above everything--to do what is right not because someone ordains it, but because the heart which is the seat of truth decrees it so. ↗

— F. Sionil José

#filipiniana #heroism #justice #philippines #family

Maybe that's what living in America does to you: it spreads you into far distances until you're just little bits rolling apart. ↗

— Marina Budhos

#family #immigration #family

It was an oddly satisfying idea to feel bereft as I left my mother this time. We only feel bereft when we’re deprived of something meaningful. ↗

— Laura Anderson Kurk

#family #glass-girl #grief #laura-anderson-kurk #meg-kavanagh

The passive and overt violence waged against the women and children of the world must end. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#gender-inequality #violence #family