#welcome

There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

#days #friend #greeting #his #homage

Three big assumptions proved wrong: one, that the Iraqi people would welcome us as liberators; two, that oil would soon pay for Iraqi's rebuilding; and, three, that we have plenty of troops, weapons, and equipment for the postwar situation. ↗

— John Spratt

#big #equipment #iraqi #iraqi people #liberators

If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees. ↗

— Hal Borland

#company #know #strength #trees #welcome

We have to do a film parody for Comic Relief. We can't decide which film to parody at the moment. Any ideas welcome, but not Spiderman owing to costume being too tight. ↗

— Dawn French

#being #comic #comic relief #costume #decide

It took me way beyond what I knew, into places of which I was totally scared, but as I became less frightened, I welcomed new ways of thinking and approaching something. It made me an infinitely richer person, and I think a better musician. ↗

— Yo-Yo Ma

#became #better #beyond #frightened #i

No one welcomes chaos, but why crave stability and predictability? ↗

— Hugh Mackay

#crave #predictability #stability #welcomes #why

We know that in September, we will wander through the warm winds of summer's wreckage. We will welcome summer's ghost. ↗

— Henry Rollins

#know #september #summer #through #wander

Aaron and I will be joined at the hip until the day we die. We have loved and hated each other since the day he was born. He's very much a part of my heart. He's going to broadcasting college now, and he'll do fine. But he came into a world that did not welcome him. ↗

— Lynn Johnston

#born #broadcasting #came #college #day

All living souls welcome whatever they are ready to cope with; all else they ignore, or pronounce to be monstrous and wrong, or deny to be possible. ↗

— George Santayana

#deny #else #ignore #living #monstrous

War at this time and in this place is unwelcome, unwise, and simply wrong. ↗

— Martin Sheen

#simply #time #unwelcome #unwise #war