#up

Well, you ought to stick with it, even after you mess up-but sticking with it is a lot easier if you have a family who believes in you. ↗

— Kathryn Littlewood

#family #mess-up #family

Despite being what would now be called a deprived child in a one parent family, I did not grow up with an urge to smash windows or to bash old ladies over the head in order to steal handbags. ↗

— Eva Hart

#growing-up #humor #life #single-parenting #family

Step-parents, those fairy tale villains, Have been given a bad name. They're easy targets. When the family goes awry How easy to blame them. I was blessed by the right steps... ↗

— Eileen Granfors

#families #growing-up #step-parents #family

Dreams so often become nightmares. Family can so easily become foes. And people are always more stupid than you give them credit for. ↗

— Mike A. Lancaster

#dreams #foes #nightmares #people #stupid

Stop using him, and start protecting him. I know he thinks he doesn't need it, but sometimes he does. Sometimes we all do. ↗

— Rachel Caine

#family #frank-collins #ghost-town #growing-up #morganville-vampires

Blood may be thicker than water, but it's certainly not as thick as ketchup. Nor does it go as well with French fries. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#bizarre #blood #crazy #culinary #food

Only Irish coffee provides in a single glass all four essential food groups: alcohol, caffeine, sugar and fat. ↗

— Alex Levin

#drinking #food-groups #humor #irish #food

Politically, Republicans and Democrats are at opposite ends. One’s a burp and the other’s a fart.
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— Jarod Kintz

#corruption #democrats #funny #government #humor

The first supermarket supposedly appeared on the American landscape in 1946. That is not very long ago. Until then, where was all the food? Dear folks, the food was in homes, gardens, local fields, and forests. It was near kitchens, near tables, near bedsides. It was in the pantry, the cellar, the backyard. ↗

— Joel Salatin

#food #gardening #gardens #supermarkets #food

Organic Oreos are not a health food. When Coca-Cola begins selling organic Coke, as it surely will, the company will have struck a blow for the environment perhaps, but not for our health. Most consumers automatically assume that the word "organic" is synomymous with health, but it makes no difference to your insulin metabolism if the high-fructose corn syrup in your soda is organic. ↗

— Michael Pollan

#corn-syrup #insulin #organic #food