#rent

Young people know how important it is for dads to be involved in their lives. As I travel the country and talk with students, some of them tell me that their lives would be totally different if their father was around. ↗

— Arne Duncan

#country #dads #different #father #how

I had a happy, dramafree youth, growing up in an upper-middle-class neighborhood in Dallas, Texas. The only thing that was slightly unusual compared to most of my friends was that I was an only child... I don't think that's why my parents gave me a dummy, at least they've never copped to it. ↗

— Jeff Dunham

#compared #dallas #dummy #friends #gave

Since it's based on my parents, it's more emotionally close to me than some of my more surreal plays. And then I like the balance of the comic and the sad. It should play as funny, but you should care about the characters and feel sad for them. ↗

— Christopher Durang

#balance #based #care #characters #close

Sincere friendship towards God, in all who believe him to be properly an intelligent, willing being, does most apparently, directly, and strongly incline to prayer; and it no less disposes the heart strongly to desire to have our infinitely glorious. ↗

— Jonathan Edwards

#being #believe #desire #directly #disposes

The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children. ↗

— Edward VIII

#america #children #impresses #me #most

I can't compare quarterbacks as apples and oranges in my mind because everybody's in a different system. ↗

— John Elway

#because #compare #different #everybody #i

The poetical language of an age should be the current language heightened. ↗

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

#current #heightened #language #poetical #should

I've always tried to kind of stretch my wings as an actor and do things that are different. ↗