#ringing

In some ways, I had a traditional 'old South' upbringing, meaning that I spent some time in a military school, and acquired an inoculum of the military ethic that is still with me today: honor, duty, loyalty. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#duty #ethic #had #honor #i

The country experience was more of a departure. When you consider my education and my upbringing, you can see that was more of country rock outgrowth of my popular music aspirations. ↗

— Tom Wopat

#consider #country #departure #education #experience

Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying. ↗

— J. Paul Getty

#business #dull #element #eminently #even

Although I was raised Jewish, my upbringing didn't include any formal religious education or training. ↗

— Melissa Gilbert

#any #education #formal #i #i was raised

Surely no issue unites us more than our appreciation for our military personnel who are bringing aid to devastated countries, defending us against terrorism, and fighting to make a free election possible in Iraq. ↗

— Christine Gregoire

#aid #appreciation #bringing #countries #defending

We in this Congress have a choice. The American people have a right to exercise a choice on this issue, as to whether our men and women will continue to fight and die in a war based on deception and fantasy, or to start bringing the troops home. ↗

— Raul Grijalva

#american people #based #bringing #choice #congress

Time made me change. I gradually woke up to the realization that this is who I am, an author, a public figure, and I couldn't just hide in my study, tapping away at the keyboard and pretend that I didn't have a role to play beyond stringing words together. ↗

— David Guterson

#author #away #beyond #change #figure

I love bringing roses to a woman when she least expects it. ↗

— Esai Morales

#bringing #expects #i #i love #least

My TV show had been cancelled; nothing else had gone anywhere; some alliances I had made petered out and nothing came of them and I was looking at a long, long year ahead of me in which there was no work on the horizon, the phone wasn't ringing. I had two kids, one of them a brand-new baby, and I didn't know if I would be able to keep my house. ↗

— Tom Hanks

#ahead #anywhere #baby #been #brand-new

I'm the result of upbringing, class, race, gender, social prejudices, and economics. So I'm a victim again. A result. ↗

— James Hillman

#class #economics #gender #i #prejudices