#ren

The greatness of a man's power is the measure of his surrender. ↗

— William Booth

#his #man #measure #power #surrender

Everybody who has a baby thinks everybody who hasn't a baby ought to have a baby, Which accounts for the success of such plays as the Irish Rose of Abie, The idea apparently being that just by being fruitful You are doing something beautiful, Which if it is true Means that the common housefly is several million times more beautiful than me or you. ↗

— Ogden Nash

#children #beauty

Parents have this twisted belief that anyone under the age of about twenty simply can’t know what love is, like the age to love is assessed in the same way the law assesses the legal age to drink. They think that the ‘emotional growth’ of a teenager’s mind is too underdeveloped to understand love, to know if it’s ‘real’ or not. ↗

— J.A. Redmerski

#parents #teenage-love #age

I think I was born because my parents had two boys and wanted to give it one more go and try for a girl... they got me instead. ↗

— Alex Borstein

#born #girl #give #go #got

Resting on the roots of this old oak I lean back against his knotted trunk, shine my granny smith on my sleeve And ponder the days… ↗

— Kellie Elmore

#children #coming-of-age #cute #dreamer #dreams

It's so different when you change your hair color, you're treated so differently. It's a very funny experience. It's fun - I love changing up my hair. ↗

— Kate Bosworth

#changing #color #different #differently #experience

I can remember running around at the age of 3, wanting to play golf, cricket and football. I was always active, one way or another, driving my parents mad. ↗

— Ian Botham

#age #always #another #around #cricket

I watched children dying. That will be the image that will stay with me. ↗

— Ian Botham

#dying #i #image #me #stay

Neither situations nor people can be altered by the interference of an outsider. If they are to be altered, that alteration must come from within. ↗

— Phyllis Bottome

#altered #come #interference #must #neither

I'm not crazy about arenas just because I can sell them out. It doesn't do anything for my ego at all. I want to play places where people don't have to sit in the nosebleed seats and wonder what the hell is going on. ↗

— Whitney Houston

#anything #arenas #because #crazy #ego