#u

The natural response of the old-timers is to build a strong moral wall against the outside. This is where the world starts to be painted in black and white, saints inside, and sinners outside the wall. ↗

— Mary Douglas

#black #black and white #build #inside #moral

We've got this proposal which has been languishing in the legislature, the Water Legacy Act, which is derived from a Republican task force on protecting the Great Lakes. Yet nothing has been done on it. ↗

— Jennifer Granholm

#been #derived #done #force #got

I had three stages of knowing Wellington Mara. He was my boss for a long time and he was a father figure. And finally, as we got older, he was my friend. ↗

— Frank Gifford

#father #father figure #figure #finally #friend

Players aren't quite as mercenary as people make them out to be. Some of them are but some aren't. ↗

— David Gill

#mercenary #out #people #players #quite

I would never want to hurt anyone by writing a book. ↗

— Kathie Lee Gifford

#book #hurt #i #never #want

When I was almost 13 I was ripe for religion. I was actually just plain ripe. ↗

— Kathie Lee Gifford

#almost #i #just #plain #religion

There is no experience like having children.’ That’s all. There is no substitute for it. You cannot do it with a friend. You cannot do it with a lover. If you want the experience of having complete responsibility for another human being, and to learn how to love and bond in the deepest way, then you should have children. ↗

— Mitch Albom

#children #experience #family #having-children #life

While growing up in Birmingham around a lot of West Indian people, reggae and calypso were big influences early on but Otis Redding was the one person who made me wanna sing myself. ↗

— Roland Gift

#big #birmingham #early #growing #growing up

Our culture peculiarly honors the act of blaming, which it takes as the sign of virtue and intellect. ↗

— Lionel Trilling

#blaming #culture #honors #intellect #our

You know, it was just another presentation of my work, and a funny one, because the cards are quite different from the normal Tarot deck, no? ↗

— H. R. Giger

#because #cards #deck #different #funny