#own

Sometimes I sit down to dinner with people and I realize there is a massive military machine surrounding us, trying to kill the people I'm having dinner with. ↗

— Rachel Corrie

#down #having #i #kill #machine

They, that unnamed "they," they've knocked me down but I got up. I always get up-and I swear when I went down quite often I took the fall; nothing moves a mountain but itself. They, I've long ago named them me. ↗

— Gregory Corso

#always #down #fall #get #got

Kids need to remember that when you put something on Twitter, it's not like whispering to your friend, you've put it on a billboard that the whole world, including your own kids someday, can see. ↗

— Bill Cosby

#friend #including #kids #like #need

My childhood should have taught me lessons for my own fatherhood, but it didn't because parenting can only be learned by people who have no children. ↗

— Bill Cosby

#childhood #children #fatherhood #learned #lessons

Obviously the people that I admired, like the Beatles, were really into rock'n'roll, but it was already a little past rock'n'roll when I started listening and making my own choices about music. ↗

— Elvis Costello

#admired #already #beatles #choices #i

I had a difficult time hearing my own inner voice about what I wanted to be in this life, because there were all these perfect examples of what a man actually does. The notion is that he goes to college, gets married and provides. That's what a man does. ↗

— Kevin Costner

#actually #because #college #difficult #difficult time

If you're going to tear down a hero, you should never forget that you're tearing down someone else's hero. You're tearing down somebody else's son. You might have to face her one day. ↗

— Kevin Costner

#down #else #face #forget #going

If you pinch the sea of its liberty, though it be walls of stone or brass, it will beat them down. ↗

— John Cotton

#brass #down #liberty #pinch #sea

Success comprises in itself the seeds of its own decline and sport is not spared by this law. ↗

— Pierre de Coubertin

#decline #itself #law #own #seeds

My daughter is a preschooler but I have only known her for a while. She is adopted. ↗

— Nia Vardalos

#daughter #her #i #known #only