#ily

I was exposed to the arts, but there was no one in my family who was an artist. ↗

— Marisa Tomei

#arts #exposed #family #i #who

What I am proposing this year are not lofty concepts far removed form the daily struggle so of ordinary Georgians. They are proposals that directly effect the lives of the people we serve. ↗

— Roy Barnes

#concepts #daily #directly #effect #far

We love to be with our family and friends and I can tell you that lots of eating will be involved. ↗

— Julia Barr

#eating #friends #i #i can #involved

By trying we can easily endure adversity. Another man's, I mean. ↗

— Mark Twain

#adversity #another #easily #endure #i

The stories that I want to tell, especially as a director, don't necessarily have a perfect ending because, the older you get, the more you appreciate a good day versus a happy ending. You understand that life continues on the next day; the reality of things is what happens tomorrow. ↗

— Drew Barrymore

#because #continues #day #director #ending

I don't think he was knowable. I mean, when most people talk about knowing somebody a lot or a little, they're talking about the secrets they've been told or haven't been told. They're talking about intimate things, family things, love things," that nice old lady said to me. "Mr. Hoenikker had all those things in his life, the way every living person has to, but they weren't the main things with him. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#life #vonnegut #family

If I loved someone, I could never let him go away from me. I would be too miserable and lonely. ↗

— Valerie Tripp

#inspirational #love #relationships #family

Accept the fact that girls squeal when they're happy or confused or excited or scared or because they just saw a certain boy in line. ↗

— Harry H. Harrison Jr.

#daughters #family #humor #family

There is a little boy inside the man who is my brother... Oh, how I hated that little boy. And how I love him too. ↗

— Anna Quindlen

#family #siblings #family

The sense that in his mother’s view, he had let down his family just by being who he was… was a failure of acceptance that he was never going to get over. He just wanted to live, honestly and out front, with no apology. Like everyone else. To love who he loved, be who he was… but society had a different standard. ↗

— J.R. Ward

#blaylock #j-r-ward #lover-at-last #family