#rot

Well, my brother was a schizophrenic, so I understood it in a different way from seeing my brother. ↗

— Jeffrey Jones

#different #different way #i #schizophrenic #seeing

I believe that movements to suppress wrongs can be carried out under the protection of our flag. ↗

— Mary Harris Jones

#carried #flag #i #i believe #i believe that

Language is political. That's why you and me, my Brother and Sister, that's why we supposed to choke our natural self into the weird, lying, barbarous, unreal, white speech and writing habits that the schools lay down like holy law. ↗

— June Jordan

#brother #brother and sister #choke #down #habits

I pressed my father's hand and told him I would protect his grave with my life. My father smiled and passed away to the spirit land. ↗

— Chief Joseph

#away #father #grave #hand #him

I was always doing something physical. My brothers and I used to have handstand contests. We'd walk around the projects on our hands and see who could get the farthest. I was always playing football with them, basketball or racing in the street. ↗

— Florence Griffith Joyner

#around #basketball #brothers #contests #could

The first book I ever wrote was in fourth grade and it was called 'Billy's Booger.' It was an autobiographical piece about a kid who was really bad at math. ↗

— William Joyce

#autobiographical #bad #billy #booger #book

Families are wonderful institution," he said. "I value mine more than I can possibly say. But each of us has an individual life to live, our own path to tread, our own destiny to forge. You can imagine, if you will, how my family wished to shelter and protect me and do my living for me so that I would never again know fear or pain or abandonment. Eventually I had to step clear of them-or I might have fallen into the temptation of allowing them to do just that. ↗

— Mary Balogh

#family #life #protect #shelter #family

When you say "I wrote a program that crashed Windows," people just stare at you blankly and say "Hey, I got those with the system, for free." ↗

— Linus Torvalds

#free #got #hey #i #just

I made it to protect the motherland. ↗

— Mikhail Kalashnikov

#made #motherland #protect

In terms of my Indianness, I try not to rely on it nor deny it. When it comes up organically in my writing, we can address it. About five years ago, we wrote this episode of 'The Office,' called 'Diwali,' which seemed like an organic way of using it. ↗

— Mindy Kaling

#address #ago #called #comes #deny