#pare

People tell you the world looks a certain way. Parents tell you how to think. Schools tell you how to think. TV. Religion. And then at a certain point, if you're lucky, you realize you can make up your own mind. Nobody sets the rules but you. You can design your own life. ↗

— Carrie-Anne Moss

#certain point #certain way #design #how #life

My parents never told us that our great-grandmothers had been slaves. ↗

— Constance Baker Motley

#had #never #our #parents #slaves

My son has two loving parents and an extended family, whether it's cousins or stepmothers or boyfriends. My son is surrounded by love. ↗

— Bridget Moynahan

#extended #extended family #family #love #loving

My parents dreaded the fact that I was changing my life to do this, but I just kept doing it. ↗

— Jason Mraz

#doing #dreaded #fact #i #just

My parents were always very supportive and accepting. They even shared my curiosity for life, or perhaps I theirs. ↗

— Jason Mraz

#always #curiosity #even #i #life

The trouble with kingdoms of heaven on earth is that they're liable to come to pass, and then their fraudulence is apparent for all to see. We need a kingdom of heaven in Heaven, if only because it can't be realized. ↗

— Malcolm Muggeridge

#because #come #earth #heaven #kingdom

I have zero tolerance for people who don't come completely prepared. I expect contribution, I expect attendance, and I expect directors to take trips and visit the company's programs. ↗

— Anne M. Mulcahy

#come #company #completely #contribution #directors

Having children is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain. ↗

— Martin Mull

#alley #bowling #bowling alley #brain #children

To speak, therefore, of an electric current in the nerves, is to use quite as symbolic an expression as if we compared the action of the nervous principle with light or magnetism. ↗

— Johannes P. Muller

#compared #current #electric #expression #light

Sometimes it's so weird just to do an interview. This morning I was back in my parents' house, with my brother, and we went for a jog together, then had breakfast as a family. And a couple of hours later I'm wearing high heels and a dress and makeup, and talking about my job. ↗

— Carey Mulligan

#back #breakfast #brother #couple #dress