#ld

If I could come back as anything - I'd be a bird, first, but definitely the command key is my second choice. ↗

— Nikki Giovanni

#back #bird #choice #come #command

We were flying on a winged vehicle that would do reentry different than we had ever done before. So all of those were firsts. Test pilots truly love firsts. ↗

— Robert Crippen

#different #done #ever #flying #had

My first year of college was tough. I thought that just being an athlete I could get by. I thought I was okay until I got kicked out, which happened twice. ↗

— Victor Cruz

#being #college #could #first #get

The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency. ↗

— Quentin Crisp

#character #consists #consuming #deliberately #describe

My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it. ↗

— Quentin Crisp

#father #me #mother #protected #threatened

The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us. ↗

— Quentin Crisp

#appalling #existence #glowing #hold #opinion

If one man in the country could take all the money, what was the use of passing any bills about it? ↗

— Davy Crockett

#any #bills #could #country #man

The American flag represents all of us and all the values we hold sacred. ↗

— Adrian Cronauer

#american flag #flag #hold #represents #sacred

A corollary is that, when laws are out of touch with the people, those laws can and should be changed - from the most simple local regulations to the highest law of the land, our federal Constitution. ↗

— Adrian Cronauer

#constitution #corollary #federal #highest #land

Favorite poems are like favorite children. We definitely have them but we never tell as the others would have their feelings hurt. ↗

— Nikki Giovanni

#definitely #favorite #feelings #hurt #like