#iving

If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed. ↗

— Luther Burbank

#attention #children #had #jungle #living

I loved to watch cartoons and even made little stop-motion films in the backyard. At the time, I never really thought that it was something you could do for a living; it never actually hit me that people do that sort of thing or I would be capable of it. ↗

— Eric Darnell

#backyard #capable #cartoons #could #even

But how odd that in this heathen nation of empty pews, where churches' bare, ruined choirs are converted into luxury loft living, a Labour government - yes, a Labour government - is deliberately creating a huge expansion of faith schools. ↗

— Polly Toynbee

#choirs #churches #converted #creating #deliberately

The poorer is a family, the greater is the proportion of the total outgo which must be used for food... The proportion of the outgo used for food, other things being equal, is the best measure of the material standard of living of a population. ↗

— Ernst Engel

#best #equal #family #food #greater

There are races and then there are races. And without a doubt, the Indy 500 is the race that I've always wanted to attend. And now, to be driving the Corvette Pace Car... this is going to be unbelievable. ↗

— Guy Fieri

#attend #car #doubt #driving #going

After 'The Real Thing,' I thought about giving up acting because it's difficult to have a rich life outside your work when you're an actress, a private life that can survive being picked up and put down. That's what I thought, anyway. ↗

— Jennifer Ehle

#acting #actress #after #anyway #because

A man with convictions finds an answer for everything. Convictions are the best form of protection against the living truth. ↗

— Max Frisch

#answer #best #convictions #everything #finds

So I'm a young boy in the 1940s growing up, seeing Ralph Bunche on a regular basis, seeing Duke Ellington on a regular basis. We know that these people are famous. They're living in the same community as we live in. They go to the same stores and shops. ↗

— Ed Smith

#boy #community #duke #duke ellington #ellington

It is not to be disguised, that a war has broken out between the North and the South. - Political and commercial men are industriously striving to restore peace: but the peace, which they would effect, is superficial, false, and temporary. ↗

— Gerrit Smith

#broken #commercial #disguised #effect #false

By measuring the proportion of children living with the same parents from birth and whether their parents report a good quality relationship we are driving home the message that social programmes should promote family stability and avert breakdown. ↗

— Iain Duncan Smith

#birth #breakdown #children #driving #family