#spent

Mom spent the time that she was supposed to be a kid actully raising children, her younger brother and younger sister. She was tough as nails and did not suffer fools at all. And the truth was she could not afford to. She spoke the truth, bluntly, directly, and without much varnish. I am her son. ↗

— Chris Christie

#am #bluntly #brother #children #could

I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday. ↗

— W. C. Fields

#i think #once #philadelphia #spent #sunday

I'm a Method actor. I spent years training for the drinking and carousing I had to do in this film. ↗

— George Clooney

#drinking #film #had #i #method

Complainers change their complaints, but they never reduce the amount of time spent in complaining. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#change #complaining #complaints #never #reduce

Six months after that, I left Taiwan, first for Hong Kong and then for mainland China, where I spent another three months studying still more Chinese and generally kicking around the country. ↗

— Eric Allin Cornell

#another #around #china #chinese #country

As a kid, I kind of spent my life being amazed by being tricked. I love being tricked. I still love it today. ↗

— Daniel Craig

#amazed #being #i #i love #kid

I've spent hours and hours doing research into Appalachian folk music. My grandfather was a fiddler. There is something very immediate, very simple and emotional, about that music. ↗

— Renee Fleming

#appalachian #doing #emotional #fiddler #folk

I spent my first twenty years in Morocco, where I coached the national team. ↗

— Just Fontaine

#first #i #morocco #national #national team

Since my retirement, I've spent a lot of time trying to help the School of Social Work at the University of North Carolina. A society like this just can't afford an uneducated underclass of citizens. ↗

— Charles Kuralt

#carolina #citizens #help #i #just

My days are spent wrangling children, chipping dried manure from boots, washing jeans, and frying calf nuts. ↗

— Ree Drummond

#calf #children #chipping #days #dried