#son

And I ask why am I black, they say I was born in sin, and shamed inequity. One of the main songs we used to sing in church makes me sick, 'love wash me and I shall be whiter than snow. ↗

— Peter Tosh

#ask #black #born #church #i

It's exciting that you've got an entire season to experience 24 hours of highly dramatically charged human experience. It allows for the close inspection of minutiae in behaviour. ↗

— Xander Berkeley

#behaviour #charged #close #dramatically #entire

Her family had of late been exceedingly fluctuating. For many years of her life she had had two sons; but the crime and annihilation of Edward a few weeks ago, had robbed her of one; the similar annihilation of Robert had left her for a fortnight without any; and now, by the resurrection of Edward, she had one again. ↗

— Jane Austen

#humor #jane-austen #sense-and-sensibility #sons #family

The reason that conservative talk radio works is because there is an audience for it. ↗

— Paul Weyrich

#because #conservative #radio #reason #talk

The strategy of my coach and me was that we looked at pictures of all the best pole vaulters from around the world, and we took the best parts from them, and we created a person that had never existed. We then started to work toward being such a person. ↗

— Sergei Bubka

#being #best #coach #created #existed

I'd like to teach kids how to write songs. This will be my first year so I'm just as green as some of the rest of the folks. It's like a music camp and I get to hang out with some of the past contestants. ↗

— Bo Bice

#contestants #first #folks #get #green

After a long, impartial enquiry of the truth, and after much and earnest calling upon God, to give unto me the spirit and revelation in the knowledge of Him, I find myself obliged, both by the principles of reason and Scripture, to embrace the opinion I now hold forth. ↗

— John Biddle

#both #calling #earnest #embrace #find

I am a season ticket holder to Dodger games. I go to every Dodger game I can go to. Every single one. ↗

— Shia LaBeouf

#dodger #every #game #games #go

That's life. Life is the ultimate game, and its rules were made to be broken ↗

— Nenia Campbell

#life #life-lessons #rules #life

You know what 'FAILING' stands for? It stands for 'Finding An Important Lesson, Inviting Needed Growth.' ↗

— Gary Busey

#finding #growth #important #important lesson #inviting