#mo

So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty. All other pacts of love or fear derive from it and are modeled upon it. ↗

— Haniel Long

#best #bound #derive #family #fear

For support, I fall back on my heart. Has a man any fault a woman cannot weave with and try to change into something better, if the god her man prays to is a mother holding a baby? ↗

— Haniel Long

#baby #back #better #cannot #change

They have the big ferris wheel and we've been out of town for two months, so he just was like, 'Mommy I want to go to Toys R Us and I don't care if you have a movie coming out and all that.' He was just being a kid. But I had to allow him to have that moment. ↗

— Nia Long

#been #being #big #care #coming

If it's not some daring, dangerous affair, it's just not interesting, or so it seems. So, here you have two people - a famous American iconic couple - who actually like each other sexually, in marriage. Imagine. ↗

— Shelley Long

#affair #american #couple #dangerous #daring

Saving a letter from an old friend doesn't exist anymore. Everything is texted or emailed. ↗

— James Caan

#emailed #everything #exist #friend #letter

I went out to the Derby on Wednesday and think it is the most interesting thing I ever saw over here. ↗

— Richard H. Davis

#ever #here #i #interesting #interesting thing

There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret, Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#chance #depths #drops #emotion #full

Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night's repose. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#attempted #begun #close #done #each

Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#bodies #cloudy #dead #distance #endeavor

I could not love thee, dear, so much, loved I not honor more. ↗

— Richard Lovelace

#dear #honor #i #love #loved