#sons

I've never fooled anyone. I've let people fool themselves. They didn't bother to find out who and what I was. Instead they would invent a character for me. I wouldn't argue with them. They were obviously loving somebody I wasn't. ↗

— Marilyn Monroe

#life

No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#life #life-lessons #memories #life

I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says "Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again. ↗

— Lewis Carroll

#nature #seasons #winter #love

Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators. ↗

— Amos Bronson Alcott

#educators #experience #more #observation #persons

There have been players with Indian heritage, but there hasn't been a Native-American professional basketball player who became a regular for all sorts of social and political reasons. ↗

— Sherman Alexie

#basketball #basketball player #became #been #hasn

The lessons of September 11 are that if we allow law enforcement to do their work free of political interference, if we give them adequate resources and modern technologies, we can protect our citizens without intruding on our liberties. ↗

— Lucille Roybal-Allard

#allow #citizens #enforcement #free #give

A lot of things happened in a lot of places. And to see how well it was handled in Atlanta. There are a lot of reasons for Atlanta being a special town in the Civil Rights era. ↗

— Ivan Allen

#being #civil #civil rights #era #handled

Life equaled love plus passion squared. Loving and being passionate about what one did was what made life so precious. ↗

— Karen Marie Moning

#life-lessons #love #passion #equality

Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing. ↗

— A. R. Ammons

#blank #definition #other #out #prisons

Good seasons start with good beginnings. ↗

— Sparky Anderson

#good #seasons #start