#tan

Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance or a stranger. ↗

— Franklin P. Jones

#criticism #friend #hard #honest #particularly

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance. ↗

— Franklin P. Jones

#children #how #instance #learn #many

It has to be real, and I think a lot of the problems we have as a society is because we don't acknowledge that family is important, and it has to be people who are present, you know, and mothers and fathers, both are not present enough with children. ↗

— James Earl Jones

#be real #because #both #children #enough

You know I took an oath to tell the truth when I took the witness stand. ↗

— Mary Harris Jones

#know #oath #stand #tell #took

Breaking up is just hard, even if you're the one breaking up. It's not fun. It can be dramatic and complicated. And then you get a little distance and you think, why did it have to be so complicated and dramatic? ↗

— Norah Jones

#breaking up #complicated #did #distance #dramatic

Arts is just as important as military defense, you know? Emotional defense is just as important. ↗

— Quincy Jones

#defense #emotional #important #just #know

I like words. Words are places, rooms, distant airs, thin and tropical. They make us feel and imagine we are more than our bodies. ↗

— Rickie Lee Jones

#bodies #distant #feel #i #imagine

It slaps your dignity just right. I loved the idea of these proud, dignified black men, and I saw the older ones wounded, and it wounded me ten times as much because I couldn't stand seeing them hurt like this. ↗

— Quincy Jones

#black #dignified #dignity #hurt #i

If they're willing to stand at polls for countless hours in the rain, as many did, then I should surely stand up for them here in the halls of Congress. ↗

— Stephanie Tubbs Jones

#countless #did #halls #here #hours

My reputation is too important to put it aside for purposes of some friendship. We have a job to do. ↗

— Stephanie Tubbs Jones

#friendship #important #job #purposes #put