#tree

My goal is to get everybody in America to do their family tree. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#everybody #family #get #goal #their

You can say I had a severe case of 'Roots' envy. I wanted to be like Alex Haley, and I wanted to be able to... do my family tree back to the slave ship and then reverse the Middle Passage, as I like to put it, and find the tribe or ethnic group that I was from in Africa. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#africa #alex #back #case #envy

If you cut down a forest, it doesn't matter how many sawmills you have if there are no more trees. ↗

— Susan George

#down #forest #how #many #matter

The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street. ↗

— Charles Lamb

#fleet #man #melancholy #must #rare

When I was a kid, I was surrounded by girls: older sisters, older girl cousins just down the street... except for an older boy named Vito who threw rocks. Each year I would wish for a baby brother. It never happened. ↗

— Wally Lamb

#boy #brother #cousins #down #each

Bananas are great, as I believe them to be the only known cure for existential dread. Also, Mother Teresa said that in India, a woman dying in the street will share her banana with anyone who needs it, whereas in America, people amass and hoard as many bananas as they can to sell for an exorbitant profit. So half of them go bad, anyway. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#amass #america #anyone #anyway #bad

I am going to try to pay attention to the spring. I am going to look around at all the flowers, and look up at the hectic trees. I am going to close my eyes and listen. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#around #attention #close #eyes #flowers

I love Mardi Gras. I'm a street rat. ↗

— Mitch Landrieu

#i love #love #rat #street

Even now I can't stand being recognized in the street. I just hate it when strangers come up and try to talk to me. I'm pathologically shy. ↗

— Jimmy Nail

#come #even #even now #hate #i

You know, I do speak the Queens English. It's just the wrong Queens that's all. It's over the 59th Street Bridge. It's not over the Atlantic Ocean. ↗

— Cyndi Lauper

#atlantic ocean #bridge #english #i #i do