#owed

I've had the odd good luck of starting slowly and building gradually, something few writers are allowed anymore. As a result I've seen each of my books called the breakthrough. And each was, in its way. ↗

— Jonathan Lethem

#anymore #books #breakthrough #building #called

I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#always #followed #i #i remember #life

My father was a sea captain, so was his father, and his father before him, and all my uncles. My mother's people all followed the sea. I suppose that if I had been born a few years earlier, I would have had my own ship. ↗

— Joseph C. Lincoln

#before #born #captain #earlier #father

Life is very, very complicated, and so films should be allowed to be, too. ↗

— David Lynch

#complicated #films #life #should #too

To that class we may leave it to refine the vernacular dialects of the country, to enrich those dialects with terms of science borrowed from the Western nomenclature, and to render them by degrees fit vehicles for conveying knowledge to the great mass of the population. ↗

— Thomas B. Macaulay

#class #conveying #country #degrees #dialects

The success of The Simpsons really opened doors. It showed that if you were working in animation you didn't necessarily have to be working in kids' television. ↗

— Seth MacFarlane

#doors #kids #necessarily #opened #really

A clock struck out the hour of twelve, and the bird in the hedgerow was still singing as we marched out to the roadway, and followed our merry pipers home to town. ↗

— Patrick MacGill

#clock #followed #home #hour #marched

I owed it to my father that I was elected to Parliament in the first place, but I owed it to my mother that I stuck it out once I got there. ↗

— Agnes Macphail

#father #first #got #i #mother

Grief is only the memory of widowed affections. ↗

— James Martineau

#affections #grief #memory #only #widowed

The worst thing about this particular end (of my youth) and the beginning (of middle age) is that for the first time in my life, I realize I don't know where I'm going. My wants are simple: a job that I like and a guy whom I love. And on the eve of my thirteth, I must face that I am 0 for 2. ↗

— Emily Giffin

#age