#ren

You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned. ↗

— Judith Viorst

#children #deserve #earned #end #face

We will have to give up the hope that, if we try hard, we somehow will always do right by our children. The connection is imperfect. We will sometimes do wrong. ↗

— Judith Viorst

#children #connection #give #hard #hope

When I was five my parents bought me a ukulele for Christmas. I quickly learned how to play it with my father's guidance. Thereafter, my father regularly taught me all the good old fashioned songs. ↗

— Tony Visconti

#christmas #fashioned #father #five #good

They taught us because they wanted to pass the knowledge on and educate young musicians. It was not because they had to teach because they failed as musicians. There is a huge difference in the reasons why someone is teaching and what they can offer and what they cannot offer. ↗

— Miroslav Vitous

#cannot #difference #educate #failed #had

The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong. ↗

— Swami Vivekananda

#come #great #gymnasium #make #ourselves

Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true. ↗

— Swami Vivekananda

#different #different ways #each #stated #thousand

Sometimes your disappointments make you a stronger person for the future. ↗

— Blanka Vlasic

#disappointments #future #make #person #sometimes

That Sid Vicious was obviously a schizophrenic, kind of a mean one too. ↗

— Don Van Vliet

#mean #obviously #schizophrenic #sid #too

I had casually rented an apartment that cost $75 a month because I expected my writing to pay my way. ↗

— A. E. van Vogt

#because #casually #cost #expected #had

I do not want our children and grandchildren to live in a world where everyday they fear some regional strongman with weapons of mass destruction. We need to send a message to these future would-be bullies: you will not be allowed to threaten the world. ↗

— George Voinovich

#bullies #children #destruction #everyday #fear