#pent

My grandmother spent her whole life working as a maid, a cook and a babysitter, barely scraping by, but still working hard to give my mother, her only child, a chance in life, so that my mother could give my brother and me an even better one. ↗

— Julian Castro

#barely #better #brother #chance #child

I spent a few years here in Memphis, in the late '70s and early '80s, where I was studying a lot of country blues players and their styles. So it seems like every record I'll do, I will appropriate these blues styles that I remember. ↗

— Alex Chilton

#blues #country #early #every #few

Researchers have found very little difference between men and women in terms of the amount of time spent gossiping. ↗

— Kate Fox

#between #difference #found #little #little difference

Tonight, I concurred with President Bush when he stated that the decisions on future involvement of U.S. troops in Iraq should be left to the Pentagon and not politicians in Washington. ↗

— Howard Coble

#concurred #decisions #future #i #involvement

To sigh, yet not recede; to grieve, yet not repent. ↗

— George Crabbe

#recede #repent #sigh #yet

Congress has a responsibility to make sure our taxpayer dollars are being spent responsibly and effectively, and at the same time, that our men and women in uniform have everything they need to carry out the War on Terror. ↗

— Larry Craig

#carry #congress #dollars #effectively #everything

When I got back I found myself being very emotional about the time spent in Rwanda in a way that I hadn't been able to or allowed myself to be when we were there. ↗

— Hugh Dancy

#about #allowed #back #been #being

Well, I've never left my faith - but have I made a lot of mistakes? But was I fortunate that I was brought up in that Pentecostal church, where I heard about God's love and God's forgiveness. ↗

— Billy Ray Cyrus

#brought #church #faith #forgiveness #fortunate

If your government had given me a thousandth of the sum it spent to depose me, I could have won that war. ↗

— Bao Dai

#given #government #had #i #me

I spent several years acquiring the obsessive, day-to-day discipline that's needed if you want to write professionally, then several more, highly valuable years studying fiction writing at the University of Iowa. ↗

— John Dalton

#day-to-day #discipline #fiction #fiction writing #highly