#ragged

Like a lot of you, I grew up in a family on the ragged edges of the middle class. My daddy sold carpeting and ended up as a maintenance man. After he had a heart attack, my mom worked the phones at Sears so we could hang on to our house. ↗

— Elizabeth Warren

#attack #class #could #daddy #edges

I suspect there are people in all walks of life who need to be dragged into the 21st century in terms of attitudes towards women. ↗

— Frances O'Grady

#attitudes #century #dragged #i #into

I used to be married to a woman who pursued every spiritual trend with tremendous passion and dragged me along. I don't believe in anything. I'd seen mediums and readers. ↗

— Harold Ramis

#anything #believe #dragged #every #i

The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#few #great #great city #greatest #greatest city

The natural movement of one's soul is upwards. But just as any object is dragged down when a heavy weight is tied to it, the burden of the body drags down the soul. ↗

— Vinoba Bhave

#body #burden #down #dragged #drags

I'm not squeamish at all. As a child I dragged a dead squirrel home on my skateboard and cut it open and tried to look at its brain. ↗

— Jessica Biel

#child #cut #dead #dragged #home