#par

Love is staying up all night with a sick child - or a healthy adult. ↗

— David Frost

#adult #all night #child #healthy #love

To be human and to be adult means constantly to be in the grip of opposing emotions, to have daily to reconcile apparently conflicting tensions. I want this, but need that. I cherish this, but I adore its opposite too. ↗

— Stephen Fry

#adult #apparently #cherish #conflicting #constantly

The Communist Party said that I must finish my studies because after the revolution in Germany people would be required with technical knowledge to take part in the building of the Communist Germany. ↗

— Klaus Fuchs

#because #building #communist #communist party #finish

I was born in Paris in 1950. I had a strict upper-class Catholic education but I never really fitted in the system and revolted against it quite early. ↗

— Francois Gautier

#born #catholic #early #education #fitted

I was the kind of kid whose parents would drop him off at the local town library on their way to work, and I'd go and work my way through the children's area. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#children #drop #go #him #i

In the '60s, parents were told to let their teens rebel, explore their boundaries. Increasingly the same message is being given to the parents of tweens. ↗

— Maggie Gallagher

#boundaries #explore #given #increasingly #message

With every song that I write, I compare it to the Beatles. The thing is, they only got there before me. If I'd been born at the same time as John Lennon, I'd have been up there. ↗

— Noel Gallagher

#been #before #born #compare #every

You can't change the fruit without changing the root. ↗

— Dr. Stephen R. Covey

#self-help #change

My parents took an interest in nothing, at home no books, no records. My mother and my father are the emblem of indifference, dryness and bad taste. My father is also terribly stingy, in life as well as in feelings: I have never seen him filling up the bathtub. ↗

— Vincent Gallo

#bad #bad taste #bathtub #books #emblem

I am a theatre actor, but the last ten years I've taken parts in movies because it keeps me in money. ↗

— Michael Gambon

#am #because #i #i am #keeps