#meager

Most songs have meager beginnings. You wake up in the morning, you throw on your suspenders, and you subvocalize and just think. They seem to form like calcium. I can't think of a story right off the bat that was that interesting. I write things on the back of my hand, usually, and sing into a tape recorder. ↗

— Tom Waits

#bat #beginnings #form #hand #i

Parents with meager means have the same aspirations for their children as other parents. Children from poor families have the same needs as other children. ↗

— Mark Sanford

#children #families #meager #means #needs

Plan Colombia was supposed to reduce Colombia's cultivation and distribution of drugs by 50 percent, but 6 years and $4.7 billion later, the drug control results are meager at best. ↗

— Jan Schakowsky

#billion #colombia #control #cultivation #distribution

The year 1915 was one of meager results, the advantages remaining on the side of the Central Powers, with this understanding, however: The Allies were growing stronger because Great Britain was making rapid progress in marshaling her resources for war. ↗

— Kelly Miller

#allies #because #britain #central #great