#ily

Places are supposed to look smaller when you go back to them, but my road just looked schizoid. A couple of the houses had had nifty little makeovers involving double glazing and amusing faux-antique pastel paint; most of them hadn't. Number 16 looked like it was on its last legs: the roof was in tatters, there was a pile of bricks and a dead wheelbarrow by the front steps, and at some point in the last twenty years someone had set the door on fire. In Number 8, a window on the first floor was lit up, gold and cozy and dangerous as hell. ↗

— Tana French

#home #reminiscing #faith

You are a person of the greatest importance when you are a mother of a family. Just do your job right and your kids will love you. ↗

— Ethel Waters

#greatest #greatest importance #importance #job #just

I've always tried to fit what I do professionally into my family, rather than the other way around. ↗

— Adam West

#around #family #fit #i #i do

So, have a little fun. Soon enough you'll be dead and burning in Hell with the rest of your family. ↗

— George Carlin

#family #fun #hell #humor #death

When I was a kid, the only way I saw movies was from the back seat of my family's car at the drive-in. ↗

— Forest Whitaker

#car #drive-in #family #i #kid

Irish is the prominent nationality in the family, but beyond that, I really don't know. I see a lot of artistic or creative influence coming through on my mother's side. ↗

— William Wiley

#beyond #coming #creative #family #i

I think my playing has been orchestral throughout the years, and this is another way of expressing that. But I primarily see it as the ultimate accomplishment of a musician. Composing makes me feel like I've finally gotten all the way up the ladder as a musician. ↗

— Tony Williams

#another #another way #been #composing #expressing

Always remember when it comes to family arguments and disputes. "Blood is thicker than anger. ↗

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

#arguements #family #life #love #relationships

The path that leads through Latin and alebra is not the path to material success. But it may suggest much more: that understanding things is a waste of time; that if you want to succeed in the world and have a happy family and a nice home and a BMW you should not try to understand things but just add up the numbers or press the buttons or do whatever else it is that marketers are so richly rewarded for doing ↗

— J.M. Coetzee

#family

Whether the family goes on a spiritual basis or not, the alcoholic member has to if he would recover. The others must be convinced of his new status beyond the shadow of a doubt. Seeing is believing to most families who have lived with a drinker. ↗

— William Griffith Wilson

#basis #believing #beyond #convinced #doubt