#ow

My father died when I was young and I was raised by my grandmother, Emma Klonjlaleh Brown. We could afford to eat chicken just once a year, on Christmas. ↗

— George Weah

#brown #chicken #christmas #could #died

We know that defence work results in more than great defence hardware - it can drive innovation and advances in all areas of our life. ↗

— Jay Weatherill

#areas #defence #drive #great #hardware

Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity. ↗

— Lester Bangs

#eternity #every #faces #future #great

I mean Iggy and The Stooges first couple of albums I think sold twenty five thousand between the two of them you know and so to talk in terms of an underground I mean you have to go really to the independent labels and things like that. ↗

— Lester Bangs

#between #couple #first #five #go

And as a writer now, I want to save Linda's life. Not her body--her life. ↗

— Tim O'Brien

#life

Most of them are pretty down records, pretty unhappy, pretty confused. Which only reflects how people in general were feeling, I mean really the sense that you get is society running down. ↗

— Lester Bangs

#down #feeling #general #get #how

I do believe in the power of prayer. ↗

— Geraldine Ferraro

#i #i do #power #prayer

I have never forgotten my days as an Eagle Scout. I didn't know it at the time, but what really came out of my Scouting was learning how to lead and serve the community. It has come in handy in my career in government. ↗

— Lloyd Bentsen

#career #come #community #days #eagle

Faith moves mountains, but only knowledge moves them to the right place... ↗

— Joseph Goebbels

#knowledge #faith

Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own. ↗

— Nelson Algren

#cards #eat #man #mom #never