#lon

Washington, D.C. in 1942 was not the easiest place in the world for a Negro to get along. ↗

— Gordon Parks

#easiest #get #place #washington #world

A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man - the one he used to be. ↗

— Cesare Pavese

#boy #company #completely #grown #grown man

I may climb perhaps to no great heights, but I will climb alone. ↗

— Cyrano de Bergerac

#alone #climb #heights #i #may

So the news that divorced fathers are to be denied a legal right to a relationship with their children, in the long overdue review of family law published this week, fills me with horror and despair. ↗

— Louis de Bernieres

#denied #despair #divorced #family #fathers

Death used to announce itself in the thick of life but now people drag on so long it sometimes seems that we are reaching the stage when we may have to announce ourselves to death. It is as though one needs a special strength to die, and not a final weakness. ↗

— Ronald Blythe

#death #die #drag #final #itself

How lonely it is going to be now on the Yellow Brick Road. ↗

— Ray Bolger

#going #how #lonely #now #road

The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, as well as more recent attacks in Madrid, Spain, and London, England, showed in a very tragic way just how vulnerable many areas of the world are to these sorts of actions. ↗

— Jo Bonner

#areas #attacks #england #how #just

It is unfortunate that Americans are no longer aware of what the constitution says and what their rights are. Because of that, we are often very passive about what happens when the government violates those rights. ↗

— James Bovard

#aware #because #constitution #government #happens

I guess I'll retire someday if I live that long. ↗

— Bobby Bowden

#i #live #long #retire #someday

A slug is always on its own. It's a lonely insect. ↗

— Karl Pilkington

#insect #lonely #own #slug