#own

Who has seen the wind? Neither you nor I but when the trees bow down their heads, the wind is passing by. ↗

— Christina Rossetti

#down #heads #i #neither #nor

It's a kind of philosophy of my own life, to create the energy enough to keep on going. ↗

— Ernie Banks

#energy #enough #going #keep #kind

I'm a just a mom when I walk down the street. ↗

— Alice Barrett

#i #just #mom #street #walk

One moment you appear to be riding the crest of a wave, only to have the rug pulled away from you, bringing you back down to earth with a sickening thud. ↗

— John Barrow

#away #back #bringing #crest #down

Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story. ↗

— John Barth

#hero #his #life #life story #necessarily

I started off at the high level, in the slick magazines, but they didn't use my name, they used house names. Anyway, then I went downhill to the pulps, then downhill further to the comics. ↗

— Mickey Spillane

#comics #downhill #further #high #high level

Negro banks, as a rule, have failed because the people, taught that their own pioneers in business cannot function in this sphere, withdrew their deposits. ↗

— Carter G. Woodson

#because #business #cannot #deposits #failed

My list of things I never pictured myself saying when I pictured myself as a parent has grown over the years. ↗

— Polly Berrien Berends

#i #list #myself #never #over

In this industry, the new owners prefer to kill anything they weren't responsible for. ↗

— Tom Berenger

#industry #kill #new #owners #prefer

Texas is a country in its own. It's made up of half Mexico/half United States but completed mixed. I don't mean to draw a generalization but it is a place, a territory, that's really made up of all these encounters, you know? ↗

— Gael Garcia Bernal

#country #draw #encounters #generalization #half