#raisin

It was then, for the first time, that Will saw the kind of help Marcus needed. Fiona had given him the idea that Marcus was after a father figure, someone to guide him gently towards male adulthood, but that wasn't it at all: Marcus needed help to be a kid, not an adult. ↗

— Nick Hornby

#raising-children #inspirational

We got babies raising babies, and its important for us as responsible adults to go out and do what we can to make sure that our kids are steered in the right direction. ↗

— Alonzo Mourning

#direction #go #got #important #kids

It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it; consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning. ↗

— George Orwell

#any #call #claim #consequently #country

Yes. We do think that the stimulus package is raising GDP and raising employment relative to what would have happened otherwise. ↗

— Doug Elmendorf

#gdp #happened #otherwise #package #raising

A good wife is someone who thinks she has done everything right: raising the kids, being there for the husband, being home, trying to do it all. ↗

— Julianna Margulies

#being there #done #everything #good #good wife

Growing up in the fifties and sixties, I can only remember knowing one child, ever, whose parents got a divorce, and hardly any whose mother 'worked' at anything besides raising her children. ↗

— Joyce Maynard

#anything #besides #child #children #divorce

If there are occasions when my grape turned into a raisin and my joy bell lost its resonance, please forgive me. Charge it to my head and not to my heart. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

#charge #forgive #forgive me #give me #grape

They're really nice kids. Michael is really raising them properly and right. ↗

— Joseph Jackson

#michael #nice #properly #raising #really

Like a lot of Irish households we read a lot of Irish history. It was almost Soviet, raising the next generation with a mythic view of their history. ↗

— Fiona Shaw

#generation #history #households #irish #like

The rubber industry is of much significance to our countries. For millions of our smallholders, the rubber tree is a tree of life, serving as a crucial source of income for earning a living and raising families. ↗

— Thaksin Shinawatra

#crucial #earning #families #income #industry