#raised

If I hadn't started painting, I would have raised chickens. ↗

— Grandma Moses

#hadn #i #painting #raised #started

When we had to do book reports, I would pick a book that no one read and just make it up and turn that in. I got praised for my imagination. ↗

— Ahmet Zappa

#got #had #i #imagination #just

Etiquette was so confounding in this country. Still, looking at Mirabella-her fists balled together like small, white porcupines, her brows knitted in animal confusion-I felt a throb of compassion. How can people live like they do? I wondered. Then I congragulated myself. This was a Stage 3 thought. ↗

— Karen Russell

#karen-russell #st-lucys-home #home

Could we betray our parents by going back to them? ↗

— Karen Russell

#karen-russell #st-lucys-home #home

She was still loping around on all fours, her fists blue-white from the strain. As if she were holding a secret tight to the ground. Sister Maria de la Guardia would sigh every time she saw her. "Caramba!" She'd sit down with Mirabella and pry her fingers apart. "You see?" she'd say softly, again and again. "What are you holding on to? Nothing, little one. Nothing. ↗

— Karen Russell

#karen-russell #st-lucys-home #home

I had a dog I raised for many years. He was a Pekingese with big eyes and a flat face, very cute. ↗

— Stephen Chow

#cute #dog #eyes #face #flat

Any father whose son raises his hand against him is guilty of having produced a son who raised his hand against him. ↗

— Charles Peguy

#any #father #guilty #hand #having

Lake breathed out a happy sigh as she approached the row filled with guns. "Matilda was my first, but ladies, you know how to make a girl want to stray. ↗

— Jennifer Lynn Barnes

#raised-by-wolves #guns

I was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii. ↗

— Steve Case

#hawaii #honolulu #i #i was born #raised

As Indiana's governor, I balanced eight budgets, never raised taxes, and left the largest surplus in state history. It wasn't always easy. Cuts had to be made and some initiatives deferred. Occasionally I had to say 'no.' ↗

— Evan Bayh

#balanced #budgets #cuts #deferred #easy