#ren

If your parent is deployed and you are that young, you spend the whole time wondering where they are and waiting for them to come home. As time passes and the absence is longer and longer, you become more and more concerned - but you don't really have the words to express your concern. There's only this continued absence. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#become #come #concern #concerned #continued

The friends whom I have are invaluable, and although not numerous they are sufficient for my enjoyment; and the texture of my own mind renders me very indifferent to the rest of the world. ↗

— George Combe

#enjoyment #friends #i #indifferent #invaluable

I had a few fibroids removed, and they left me with a Grand Canyon of scar tissue in my uterus. The doctors weren't sure I'd be able to reproduce. I was prepared for a rough road, and then out of nowhere we conceived. ↗

— Holly Marie Combs

#canyon #conceived #doctors #few #grand

Watergate showed more strengths in our system than weaknesses... The whole country did take part in quite a genuine sense in passing judgment on Richard Nixon. ↗

— Archibald Cox

#did #genuine #judgment #more #nixon

The real abhorrent consequence of the invention of atomic bombs is the fact that we still have them and they're spreading. ↗

— Barry Commoner

#atomic #atomic bombs #bombs #consequence #fact

The world is the devil's hunting-ground, and children are his choicest game. ↗

— Anthony Comstock

#choicest #devil #game #his #world

I unfortunately don't speak French, but my wife is now fluent in English, which really reflects rather badly on me. ↗

— Sean Connery

#english #fluent #french #i #me

Don't make art for other artists or for 'intellectuals', make art for people - and if you can touch just one person in a lifetime and make a difference - you have succeeded. ↗

— Ray Conniff

#artists #difference #intellectuals #just #just one

It is a maudlin and indecent verity that comes out through the strength of wine. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#indecent #maudlin #out #strength #through

Curiosity endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in their own mode of life which springs from their cheerful willingness to let life take the form it will. ↗

— Alistair Cooke

#cheerful #curiosity #endows #form #generosity