#row

Every where the years bring to all enough of sin and sorrow; but in slavery the very dawn of life is darkened by these shadows. ↗

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

#darkened #dawn #enough #every #life

But to the slave mother New Year's day comes laden with peculiar sorrows. She sits on her cold cabin floor, watching the children who may all be torn from her the next morning; and often does she wish that she and they might die before the day dawns. ↗

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

#cabin #children #cold #comes #dawns

On the other hand, I don't understand the enthusiasm for everything in the antique shop that Grandma threw out. There, the sense of quality has declined; otherwise Grandma wouldn't have thrown it out. ↗

— Arne Jacobsen

#declined #enthusiasm #everything #grandma #hand

But now, being a parent, I go home and see my son and I forget about any mistake I ever made or the reason I'm upset. I get home and my son is smiling or he comes running to me. It has just made me grow as an individual and grow as a man. ↗

— LeBron James

#any #being #comes #ever #forget

Being the only man in the household with my mom definitely helped me grow up fast. ↗

— LeBron James

#definitely #fast #grow #grow up #helped

Where I grew up - I grew up on the north side of Akron, lived in the projects. So those scared and lonely nights - that's every night. You hear a lot of police sirens, you hear a lot of gunfire. Things that you don't want your kids to hear growing up. ↗

— LeBron James

#every #every night #grew #growing #growing up

I mean, when you grow up in the inner city and you grow up in a single-parent household, that's - those are humbling times, you know? ↗

— LeBron James

#grow #grow up #household #humbling #i

I was a Chicago Bulls, Michael Jordan fan growing up. ↗

— LeBron James

#chicago #fan #growing #growing up #i

I have the power of my height. Growing up, it was a total drawback. There was nothing good about it at all. ↗

— Allison Janney

#drawback #good #growing #growing up #height

People lose people, we lose things in our life as we're constantly growing and changing. That's what life is is change, and a lot of that is loss. It's what you gain from that loss that makes life. ↗

— Thomas Jane

#changing #constantly #gain #growing #life