#ren

And I definitely wanted to be a writer, but I felt a duty now, having used up those educational resources, I felt a duty to the church and my parents to become a priest. ↗

— Thomas Keneally

#church #definitely #duty #educational #felt

The tax on capital gains directly affects investment decisions, the mobility and flow of risk capital... the ease or difficulty experienced by new ventures in obtaining capital, and thereby the strength and potential for growth in the economy. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

#capital #capital gains #decisions #difficulty #directly

If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much. ↗

— Jackie Kennedy

#children #else #i #matters #much

What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren't supposed to work if they had families. What were they going to do when the children are grown - watch the raindrops coming down the window pane? ↗

— Jackie Kennedy

#children #coming #down #families #generation

It's always been my feeling that God lends you your children until they're about eighteen years old. If you haven't made your points with them by then, it's too late. ↗

— Betty Ford

#always #been #children #eighteen #feeling

I've learnt new scales through playing different types of music, like Indian raga scales, gipsy scales and harmonically-based jazz scales. ↗

— Nigel Kennedy

#different types #i #indian #jazz #learnt

Now look at me! Take a good look! I was born and I knew I was alive and I knew what I wanted. What do you think is alive in me? Why do you think I'm alive? Because I have a stomach and eat and digest the food? Because I breathe and work and produce more food to digest? Or because I know what I want, and that something which knows how to want—isn't that life itself? And who—in this damned universe—who can tell me why I should live for anything but for that which I want? ↗

— Ayn Rand

#self-determination #food

For students today, only 10 percent of children from working-class families graduate from college by the age of 24 as compared to 58 percent of upper-middle-class and wealthy families. ↗

— Patrick J. Kennedy

#age #children #college #compared #families

On the other hand, the American public possesses a great resilience and strength, and good risk communication strategies can tap into and even amplify those assets. ↗

— Patrick J. Kennedy

#american public #amplify #assets #communication #even

I tell myself that God gave my children many gifts - spirit, beauty, intelligence, the capacity to make friends and to inspire respect. There was only one gift he held back - length of life. ↗

— Rose Kennedy

#beauty #capacity #children #friends #gave