#on

Papa taps on the skylight and I look up. He waves at me and smiles. I smile back. For now, I don't need to know what lies ahead. For now it's enough just to be here, safe aboard the Morning Star with my family and friends. For now, it's enough to be home. ↗

— Heather Vogel Frederick

#home #smile #education

You are not stuck where you are unless you decide to be. ↗

— Wayne W. Dyer

#self-determination #determination

You have only a short period of time in your life to make your mark, and I'm there now. ↗

— George Clooney

#life #make #mark #now #only

America, the temple of invention and industry, doesn't make things anymore. ↗

— Nick Clooney

#anymore #industry #invention #make #temple

As I listened, it occurred to me that interest in and affection for the animals that share the planet with us may be a more unifying force than any other. ↗

— Nick Clooney

#any #force #i #interest #listened

But when I roamed New York City, knowing so much and capable of speaking so nicely, and yet so lonely, and often hungry and cold, I learned the joke at the core of American self-improvement: knowledge was so much junk to be processed one way or another at great universities. The real treasure the great universities offered was a lifelong membership in a respected artificial extended family. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#knowledge #education

Social Security is at last on the nation's front burner. ↗

— Nick Clooney

#front #last #nation #security #social

We like to believe that, in our lifetime, the human condition is improving. ↗

— Nick Clooney

#condition #human #human condition #improving #lifetime

What the F.D.I.C. does is to put the full faith and credit of the United States government behind every savings account in the nation, up to a limit that has changed over the years and stands now at $100,000. ↗

— Nick Clooney

#behind #changed #credit #does #every

Two days after moving we recommended ourselves to God, Our Lord, and fled, hoping that, although it was late in the season and the fruits of the tunas were giving out, by remaining in the field we might still get over a good portion of the land. ↗

— Alvar N. C. de Vaca

#although #days #field #fled #fruits