#owing

Look at pictures of me growing up. It wasn't always the way it is now. It was a bumpy road for me. ↗

— Chris Evans

#growing #growing up #look #me #now

How can it be, after all this concentrated effort and separation, how can it be that I still resemble, so very closely, my own detestable mother? ↗

— Gabrielle Hamilton

#becoming-your-parents #family #growing-up #humor #parents

Growing up, I never gave a thought to being a writer. All I ever wanted to be was a traveler and explorer. Science-fiction allowed me to go places that were otherwise inaccessible, which is why I started reading it. I was going to be a lawyer, but I got saved. ↗

— Alan Dean Foster

#being #ever #explorer #gave #go

I've often reflected on this in the past weeks as I've been following the presidential campaign: Very often, I thought it would have been great for both of these guys to sit down and be force-fed a couple of dozen episodes of Star Trek. ↗

— Patrick Stewart

#both #campaign #couple #down #dozen

Shock, confusion, fear, anger, grief, and defiance. On Sept. 11, 2001, and for the three days following the worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil, President George W. Bush led with raw emotion that reflected the public's whipsawing stages of acceptance. ↗

— Ron Fournier

#anger #attack #bush #confusion #days

I remember very much there in Falls Church there was a creek that was flowing down into 4 Mile Run. I believe it's now covered up where it goes under Columbia Street. I found a whole family of weasels down there. ↗

— Jim Fowler

#church #columbia #covered #creek #down

It is exhausting knowing that most of the time the phone rings, most of the time there's an email, most of the time there's a letter, someone wants something of you. ↗

— Stephen Fry

#exhausting #knowing #letter #most #phone

In this context, the current recovery in the Japanese economy is taking place in tandem with the growing interdependence with the rest of the world, particularly with the other East Asian economies. ↗

— Toshihiko Fukui

#context #current #east #east asian #economies

The direct investment of Japanese businesses to East Asian economies accelerates the reallocation of their production bases. Consequently, between Japan and the other East Asian countries, both exports and imports are growing substantially. ↗

— Toshihiko Fukui

#asian countries #bases #between #both #businesses

Drudgery is as necessary to call out the treasures of the mind, as harrowing and planting those of the earth. ↗

— Margaret Fuller

#drudgery #earth #harrowing #mind #necessary