#sticks

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will make me go in a corner and cry by myself for hours. ↗

If people really liked to work, we'd still be plowing the land with sticks and transporting goods on our backs. ↗

There is a curious paradox that no one can explain. Who understands the secret of the reaping of the grain? Who understands why Spring is born out of Winter’s laboring pain, or why we must all die a bit before we grow again? I do not know the answer; I merely know it’s true. I hurt them for that reason, and myself a little bit too. ↗

— Tom Jones

#paradox #the-fantasticks #music

Sticks and stones build strong houses ↗

— Melody Carstairs

#sticks-and-stones #strength-of-character #inspirational

I was always looking ahead. I used to do all kinds of things for entertainment. When I was young, we had no radio, no TV. We were 30 miles from the public library, out in the sticks in Western Kansas, and so I'd do arithmetic exercises. ↗

— Clyde Tombaugh

#always #arithmetic #entertainment #exercises #had

My darling father gave me some decent getaway sticks - my legs are OK. ↗

— Julie Bowen

#decent #father #gave #legs #me

If you have a setback, and you're not doing well and then you overcome it somehow, it always sticks with you. You know it could happen again. ↗

— Sam Donaldson

#always #could #doing #happen #know

I am a person who sticks to her word. ↗

— Steffi Graf

#her #i #i am #person #sticks

It is hard work to be good when you are very little and very hungry, and have many sticks to beat you, and no mother's lips to kiss you. ↗