#ted

We are personalities in the making, limited, and grappling with things too high for us. Obviously we, at very best, will make many mistakes, but these mistakes need not be sins. ↗

— E. Stanley Jones

#grappling #high #limited #make #making

I was an adopted child of my grandparents, and I don't know how I can ever express my gratitude for that, because my parents would have been a mess, you know. ↗

— James Earl Jones

#because #been #child #ever #express

I got out of the Army - in my world - I came to New York, for instance, when the civil rights movement was just beginning, and that created a certain energy, a certain rumble, a certain impetus for black actors. ↗

— James Earl Jones

#beginning #black #came #certain #civil

So in my sophomore year, I took a senior anatomy class. I thought anatomy - being the thing that I should be most interested in - and if I could hack, as we called it, a senior class, I would continue. I didn't hack the senior class. ↗

— James Earl Jones

#being #called #class #continue #could

I asked a man in prison once how he happened to be there and he said he had stolen a pair of shoes. I told him if he had stolen a railroad he would be a United States Senator. ↗

— Mary Harris Jones

#had #happened #him #how #i

As a child I was very involved with sports and I knew at age 9 that I wanted to be an Olympic champion. ↗

— Marion Jones

#champion #child #i #involved #knew

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

My mom and I have always been very close. She is my best friend. She had to make a lot of sacrifices early on in my life to make sure I got to do what I wanted to do. ↗

— Norah Jones

#been #best #best friend #close #early

I love eggs so much. I feel like my day hasn't started until I've had eggs. I'm probably gonna die from high cholesterol! ↗

— Norah Jones

#day #die #eggs #feel #gonna

My first two records are so simply constructed. The reason isn't because I wanted to make simple music. It's because I don't really have the chops. ↗

— Norah Jones

#chops #constructed #first #i #make