#own

My kids are growing up and it's hard to accept they are their own person and they're independent. ↗

— Ray Romano

#growing #growing up #hard #independent #kids

The cactus thrives in the desert while the fern thrives in the wetland. The fool will try to plant them in the same flowerbox. The florist will sigh and add a wall divider and proper soil to both sides. The grandparent will move the flowerbox halfway out of the sun. The child will turn it around properly so that the fern is in the shade, and not the cactus. The moral of the story? Kids are smart. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#cactus #child #children #clever #desert

Freedom begins the moment you realize someone else has been writing your story and it's time you took the pen from his hand and started writing it yourself. ↗

— Bill Moyers

#freedom #ownership #freedom

Genius is never understood in its own time. ↗

— Bill Watterson

#never #own #time #understood

Judging from what looks like the popularity of this classic wrestling show is that the people like what they have grown to know and love here in Memphis. ↗

— Jerry Lawler

#grown #here #judging #know #like

I don't want to be known for anything other than writing songs. ↗

— Nate Ruess

#i #known #other #songs #than

Those who speak of our culture as dead or dying have a quarrel with life, and I think they cannot understand its terms, but must endlessly repeat the projection of their own desires. ↗

— Muriel Rukeyser

#culture #dead #desires #dying #endlessly

I have grown up in the bright light of America. ↗

— John Edwards

#bright #grown #i #light #up

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#any #brain #falls #habits #his

Ideally if I settled down with a wife I would love to form my own troupe of mini dancers! ↗

— Michael Flatley

#down #form #i #ideally #love