#longed

When I look back over my life it's almost as if there was a plan laid out for me - from the little girl who was so passionate about animals who longed to go to Africa and whose family couldn't afford to put her through college. Everyone laughed at my dreams. I was supposed to be a secretary in Bournemouth. ↗

— Jane Goodall

#afford #africa #almost #back #college

We were not fathers also to convey the promise, as Abraham was; nor although the promise, as collectively taken, had belonged to us, as to Abraham it did. ↗

— Thomas Goodwin

#also #although #belonged #collectively #convey

I belonged to the generation that grew up under National Socialism, and was blinded and led astray - and allowed itself to be led astray. ↗

— Gunter Grass

#astray #belonged #blinded #generation #grew

When I was 12 years old, I read 'Nancy Drew' mysteries and biographies of Madame Curie and Florence Nightingale and books about girls who love horses or go to nursing school. I belonged to the Girl Scouts and got A's in school and rarely disobeyed my parents. I still kept a collection of Barbie dolls in my room, and I almost never spoke to boys. ↗

— Joyce Maynard

#almost #barbie #belonged #biographies #books

I have never belonged to a party. I don't have party affiliation. ↗

— William Odom

#belonged #i #never #party

Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever. ↗

— George Orwell

#books #constantly #exceptionally #exhausting #feeling

I longed to be bright and most certainly never was. I was rather hopeless, I suspect. ↗

— Maggie Smith

#certainly #hopeless #i #longed #most

Through every moment on stage for the first time, I felt like I was finally right where I belonged. ↗

— Peter Gallagher

#every #felt #finally #first #first time

I've always belonged to the street, and I always will. It's in my DNA. ↗

— Javier Bardem

#belonged #dna #i #i always #street

There is no instance of a nation benefitting from prolonged warfare. ↗