#rot

I came from a big family - two brothers and two sisters. So, there were always a ton of boys around and a ton of girls around. So, I grew up comfortable with both sexes. ↗

— Blake Lively

#around #big #big family #both #brothers

We've got to protect our young men and women and we've got to win that, whatever the cost. ↗

— Ken Lucas

#got #men #men and women #our #protect

I have always held those political opinions which point to the universal brotherhood of man, no matter in what rank of life he may have taken his origin. ↗

— Alexander Mackenzie

#brotherhood #held #his #i #life

America is a hurricane, and the only people who do not hear the sound are those fortunate if incredibly stupid and smug White Protestants who live in the center, in the serene eye of the big wind. ↗

— Norman Mailer

#big #center #eye #fortunate #hear

I would never abdicate, nor would I expect any other governor to abdicate, the responsibility to protect the people of my state. ↗

— Joe Manchin

#any #expect #governor #i #never

From the moment I wrote 'Leaf Storm' I realized I wanted to be a writer and that nobody could stop me and that the only thing left for me to do was to try to be the best writer in the world. ↗

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#could #i #leaf #left #me

It's better for me to go up against someone's passion with my passion and then clarifying something that he wrote. Then I know how to work around certain things. ↗

— Penny Marshall

#around #better #certain #certain things #go

Once there were two brothers: one ran away to sea, the other was elected Vice-President-and nothing was ever heard from either of them again. ↗

— Thomas R. Marshall

#away #brothers #either #elected #ever

Here's a news flash: No soldier gives his life. That's not the way it works. Most soldiers who make a conscious decision to place themselves in harm's way do it to protect their buddies. They do it because of the bonds of friendship - and it goes so much deeper than friendship. ↗

— Eric Massa

#bonds #buddies #conscious #conscious decision #decision

I was into all kinds of music as a teen - country music, because my dad was in a band that played country, and whatever my sister and brother were into. ↗

— Martina McBride

#because #brother #country #country music #dad