#sons

My parents never pressured me to skate. They always said I could quit if I wanted to. They only expected me to skate when they had already paid for the expensive lessons. But, otherwise they said I could do what I wanted to do. ↗

— Nancy Kerrigan

#always #could #expected #expensive #had

One of the reasons I wanted to do a show about Nashville in Nashville was because when I lived here, the hardest thing to go out and hear was country music. Country was taking place inside the studio and it was an export. ↗

— Callie Khouri

#because #country #country music #export #go

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit together at the table of brotherhood. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

#able #brotherhood #day #dream #former

Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good ones. ↗

— Stephen King

#book #books #every #good #good ones

We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse. ↗

— Rudyard Kipling

#failure #forty #million #reasons #single

I used to teach dance lessons. ↗

— Eartha Kitt

#i #lessons #teach #used

I do not hold to non-violence for moral reasons, but for political and practical reasons. ↗

— Aung San Suu Kyi

#i #i do #moral #non-violence #political

My reputation was a bit exaggerated. Things were written in newspapers, then copied, then doubled. One of the reasons why I never disclaimed that, was because I found it amusing. But I also constructed such an image for myself in order to gain more of a private life. ↗

— Thomas Kretschmann

#amusing #because #bit #constructed #copied

I took piano for many years. I kicked and screamed through all of my lessons, but my mom really insisted. ↗

— Kristin Kreuk

#insisted #kicked #lessons #many #mom

Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions; their reasons are always different. ↗

— George Santayana

#agree #always #conclusions #different #friends