#olden

sticks and stones might break your bones, but cement pays homage to tradition. ↗

— Estelle Getty

#humor #italian #patrillo #sicily #sophia

We call 'Ain't No Mountain' the golden egg that landed us at Motown. ↗

— Nickolas Ashford

#egg #golden #landed #motown #mountain

Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's around - nobody big, I mean - except me. And I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff - I mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That's all I do all day. I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be. ↗

— J.D. Salinger

#holden-caulfield #hope #run #save #hope

The Marcos era was the golden time for the Philippines. We had the lowest crime rate in the world in Manila and real development then. At last, people are starting to understand this. ↗

— Imelda Marcos

#crime rate #development #era #golden #had

He tilted his head to the side, still watching me in that same, disconcerting way. “Some things are true, drunk or sober. You should know that. You deal in facts all the time.” “Yeah, but this isn’t—” I couldn’t argue with him looking at me like that. “I have to go. Wait… you didn’t take the cross.” I held it out to him. He shook his head. “Keep it. I think I’ve got something else to help center my life. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#richelle-mead #sydney-sage #the-golden-lily #life

I wish I could take what I'm feeling right now and put it in the water system so everybody could drink it and we would all love each other. ↗

— Jamie Foxx

#love

Holy crap. Is that an elephant penis? ↗

— Lexi Blake

#lexi-blake #the-men-with-the-golden-cuffs #men

And I have one of those very loud, stupid laughs. I mean if I ever sat behind myself in a movie or something, I'd probably lean over and tell myself to please shut up. ↗

— J.D. Salinger

#laughter #movies

If arrogance were shoes, he'd never go barefoot. ↗

— Tamora Pierce

#raoul-of-goldenlake #squire #tamora-pierce #arrogance

Why would you do that? Why would you act like you didn't know how to drive?" "Isn't it obvious, Sage? No, of course it isn't. I did it so I'd have a reason to be around you - one I knew you couldn't refuse ↗

— Richelle Mead

#sydney-sage #the-golden-lily #adrian-ivashkov