#time

Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes. ↗

— Bill Cosby

#child #clothes #developed #eight #even

Every success story has a parent who says, 'over my dead body.' Every success story has an old person who walks up to you and says, when you're acting the fool, 'you know I worry about you sometimes.' ↗

— Bill Cosby

#acting #body #dead #every #fool

Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#greater #laws #motherhood #natural #natural laws

I’m not a very good sleeper. But you know what? I’m willing to put in a few extra hours every day to get better. That’s just the kind of hard worker I am. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#ambitious #delusional #funny #hard-work #humor

Make no mistake, our troops will be in Afghanistan and Iraq for a long time. ↗

— Jerry Costello

#iraq #long #long time #make #make no mistake

Sometimes failure isn't an opportunity in disguise, it's just you. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#failure #just #opportunity #sometimes #you

I think that emotion and good stories can cross the times. ↗

— Marion Cotillard

#emotion #good #good stories #i #i think

If you don't have a spiritual practice in place when times are good, you can't expect to suddenly develop one during a moment of crisis. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#develop #during #expect #good #moment

Children remind us to treasure the smallest of gifts, even in the most difficult of times. ↗

— Allen Klein

#difficult #even #gifts #most #remind

I enjoy acting now more than I ever have. I've had lots of difficult times when I was younger, but that was all tied up with thwarted ambition. It's hard being a young actor, because you don't realise until later that it's only ever about doing the work. ↗

— Brian Cox

#acting #actor #ambition #because #being