#relatio

Pa never told stories like Grandpa. Or treated the barn like family. Eli knew how Grandpa’s own pa had built the barn by hand, hauling bluestone for the foundation behind a stubborn ox with horns as wide as a tractor. How the smell of the plank walls was like family and how you never washed your chore coat so the animals would smell that you were family, too. ↗

— Sandra Neil Wallace

#author-sandra-neil-wallace #belonging #family #little-joe #nature

The incestuous relationship between government and big business thrives in the dark. ↗

— Jack Anderson

#between #big #big business #dark #government

My writing has a lot to do with who I am, and what my life is like, and my relationships to people. ↗

— Paul Thomas Anderson

#i #i am #life #like #lot

For me, the highest level of sexual excitement is in a monogamous relationship. ↗

— Warren Beatty

#highest #highest level #level #me #monogamous

Being, belief and reason are pure relations, which cannot be dealt with absolutely, and are not things but pure scholastic concepts, signs for understanding, not for worshipping, aids to awaken our attention, not to fetter it. ↗

— Johann Georg Hamann

#aids #attention #awaken #being #belief

The heart of a person only beats when it's surrounded by blood, by family. ↗

— Erica Goros

#inspiration #relationships #family

I was raised by a single mother and I've been in a 10-year relationship with my girlfriend. My whole life I've been surrounded by women. ↗

— Jon Hamm

#girlfriend #i #i was raised #life #mother

The biggest trade that Germany and Britain had was with each other, in the prewar period; I think I'm right in that. Two highly industrialized nations had the most trade with each other, and it wasn't tariff policies alone that made trade relations better for both of them. ↗

— W. Averell Harriman

#better #biggest #both #britain #each

I'm not really a relationship expert but ...I'm an expert on manhood and what men think. ↗

— Steve Harvey

#i #manhood #men #really #relationship

I'm not a relationship expert. I'm an expert on manhood. ↗

— Steve Harvey

#i #manhood #relationship