#v

In the first decade of my life, I came to know and love God, as I was raised in a Christian home and community. ↗

— Chely Wright

#christian #christian home #community #decade #first

The accidental causes of science are only accidents relatively to the intelligence of a man. ↗

— Chauncey Wright

#accidents #causes #intelligence #man #only

All I ever wanted to do was write songs and get on a bus and go play them for people. ↗

— Chely Wright

#ever #get #go #i #people

As a young girl, there were the obvious messages about what girls could and couldn't achieve. And to compound the limitations I felt being leveled upon me, I realized at the age of nine, that I was gay. ↗

— Chely Wright

#achieve #age #being #compound #could

The man who worries morning and night about the dandelions in the lawn will find great relief in loving the dandelions. ↗

— Liberty Hyde Bailey

#love

I felt like a sinful person when I dated men and allowed them to feel for me in a way I knew I could never naturally feel for them. That felt wrong and a lie. ↗

— Chely Wright

#could #dated #feel #felt #i

I recruited my dad to be my bass player and fired him on several occasions. He stayed on as a bus driver. ↗

— Chely Wright

#bass player #bus #bus driver #dad #driver

No one is safe from nature's savagery,not even the innocent. Only beauty is consistent. Gabrielle envisions a time when the Savage Garden will overtake civilizations and destroy it. ↗

— Anne Rice

#civilization #savage-garden #beauty

I like New York because you're kind of forced to smell everybody else's funk. So it keeps you biologically attached to the world around you. ↗

— Jeffrey Wright

#attached #because #biologically #else #everybody

I like to do theater and hopefully be effective. Most actors, at least contemporary actors of my generation, can't do it. They don't have the chops. ↗

— Jeffrey Wright

#contemporary #effective #generation #hopefully #i