#tho

Pa never told stories like Grandpa. Or treated the barn like family. Eli knew how Grandpa’s own pa had built the barn by hand, hauling bluestone for the foundation behind a stubborn ox with horns as wide as a tractor. How the smell of the plank walls was like family and how you never washed your chore coat so the animals would smell that you were family, too. ↗

— Sandra Neil Wallace

#author-sandra-neil-wallace #belonging #family #little-joe #nature

The atmosphere was wide open in those circles that we traveled in. ↗

— David Amram

#circles #open #those #traveled #wide

But you can make good radio, interesting radio, great radio even, without an urgent question, a burning issue at stake. ↗

— Ira Glass

#even #good #great #interesting #issue

Information of fundamental importance to the general problem of atomic structure has resulted from systematic studies of the cosmic radiation carried out by the Wilson cloud-chamber method. ↗

— Carl D. Anderson

#carried #cosmic #fundamental #general #importance

Although our inattention can contribute to our lack of total well-being, we also have the power to choose positive behaviors and responses. In that choice we change our every experience of life! ↗

— Greg Anderson

#although #behaviors #change #choice #choose

We have thousands of patients and family members who are dealing with dual devastation, cancer and the hurricane. ↗

— Greg Anderson

#dealing #devastation #dual #family #family members

There is no real justification for a requirement that a budget of any sort should be balanced, except as a rallying point for those who seek to hamstring government. ↗

— William Vickrey

#balanced #budget #except #government #justification

I don't think the author should make the reader do that much work to remember who somebody is. ↗

— Kevin J. Anderson

#i #make #much #reader #remember

That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful. ↗

— Sherwood Anderson

#beautiful #beginning #composite #each #great

Men aren't the way they are because they want to drive women crazy; they've been trained to be that way for thousands of years. And that training makes it very difficult for men to be intimate. ↗

— Barbara de Angelis

#been #crazy #difficult #drive #intimate