#them

Art is like baby shoes. When you coat them with gold, they can no longer be worn. ↗

— John Updike

#baby #coat #gold #like #longer

I don't let things go unless I'm ready for them to go. ↗

— Faith Hill

#i #ready #them #things #unless

We blocked them inside the city. Their rear is blocked. ↗

— Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

#city #inside #rear #their #them

I don't want to do children's music. I write kids songs, but the kids songs I write are for my kids - like when I'm putting them to bed. We sing some song that we made up but I don't want to make a record like that. ↗

— Frank Black

#children #i #i write #kids #like

Give the children an opportunity to make garden. Let them grow what they will. It matters less that they grow good plants than that they try for themselves. ↗

— Liberty Hyde Bailey

#garden #give #good #grow #less

Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman's destiny requires, have for the most part a mania for making everything about them bend to them. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#bend #bent #destiny #everything #having

The world is made up for the most part of morons and natural tyrants, sure of themselves, strong in their own opinions, never doubting anything. ↗

— Clarence Darrow

#doubting #made #morons #most #natural

In my world, history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought, who won them and who lost them - unless there is a painting, a play, a song or a poem that speaks of the event. ↗

— Theodore Bikel

#art #battles #cares #comes #down

We had avoided discovery by the Sioux scouts, and we were confident of giving them a complete surprise. ↗

— Buffalo Bill

#complete #confident #discovery #giving #had

Building is just skilled labor, I suppose. It's a lot of work. I don't mind other people building them, but the way things go together and are made is interesting to me; I like that a lot. ↗

— Donald Judd

#go #i #interesting #just #labor