#owing

I'm sorry you don't like coming back here," her mother often said, to cap whatever petty dust-up they'd had. How could Emily explain: it wasn't her mother or Kersey she'd disowned, but her earlier self, that strange, ungrateful girl who strove to be first at everything and threw tantrums when she failed. ↗

— Stewart O'Nan

#arguments #coming-home #daughters #family #fights

Is it possible that we never feel grown-up because, as our capabilities increased with age, so increased our responsibilities? ↗

— R.C. Sproul Jr.

#growing #maturity #age

So what really works? Treatments in jail do some good, but it's mostly too late: finding a family and a job or just growing older make most prisoners eventually give up crime. ↗

— Polly Toynbee

#eventually #family #finding #give #good

A tree growing out of the ground is as wonderful today as it ever was. It does not need to adopt new and startling methods. ↗

— Robert Henri

#does #ever #ground #growing #methods

I suppose I was artistic as a child. Our house was so full of art and artists that it never occurred to me not to be constantly making things. I just assumed that all kids liked to work with their hands as much as I did. I was an only child so I did have a lot of time to be creative by myself and with my parents. ↗

— Wendy Froud

#artistic #doll-making #growing-up #making-things #art

But I like to know that someone is stronger than I am. I want to be able to know that if I get tired, somebody is there to hold up the fort. I like knowing that I can't pick a refrigerator alone. God did not make me strong enough to do that. ↗

— Donna Summer

#alone #am #did #enough #fort

There are very important and practical issues raised by following this alternative route which says, let's look to material conditions, to the systems of production, to the needs that human beings have, and to competing alternative solutions to the satisfaction of those needs. ↗

— Marvin Harris

#beings #competing #conditions #following #human

Conway Twitty was always our local hero while I was growing up. He had a series of good bands. I wanted to sit in, if Conway would let me. And he did a couple of times. ↗

— Levon Helm

#bands #conway #couple #did #good

You could not step twice into the same rivers; for other waters are ever flowing on to you. ↗

— Heraclitus

#ever #flowing #into #other #rivers

Our priority must be to build a path towards balancing the budget, and we cannot tolerate growing deficits. ↗

— Michael Crapo

#budget #build #cannot #deficits #growing