#wing

[Jo to her mother] I knew there was mischief brewing. I felt it and now it's worse than I imagined. I just wish I could marry Meg myself, and keep her safe in the family. ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

#humor #jo #marriage #siblings #family

Especially while television I think is going through some growing pains or is in need of - I think current comedy is a bit, uh, not happening, you know? ↗

— Jenna Elfman

#comedy #current #especially #going #growing

My dad was so much fun growing up. ↗

— Abby Elliott

#fun #growing #growing up #much #up

I saw the Stones three years ago at the Wiltern Theater in L.A. and that was mind blowing. ↗

— Joe Elliott

#blowing #i #mind #saw #stones

When I was growing up, I'd be in the choir. My mum was the organist in the church, so I'd sing in the church. ↗

— Enya

#church #growing #growing up #i #mum

Look at pictures of me growing up. It wasn't always the way it is now. It was a bumpy road for me. ↗

— Chris Evans

#growing #growing up #look #me #now

How can it be, after all this concentrated effort and separation, how can it be that I still resemble, so very closely, my own detestable mother? ↗

— Gabrielle Hamilton

#becoming-your-parents #family #growing-up #humor #parents

When I was in high school at Northeast Catholic in Philadelphia in the late '30s, I found that drawing caricatures of the teachers and satirizing the events in the school, then having them published in our school magazine, got me some notoriety. ↗

— Bil Keane

#catholic #drawing #events #found #got

Chum was a British boy's weekly which, at the end of the year was bound into a single huge book; and the following Christmas parents bought it as Christmas presents for male children. ↗

— A. E. van Vogt

#bought #bound #boy #british #children

When I was about nine, my siblings and I fell out of our moving van at an intersection. My dad didn’t notice for about five blocks. It was back before seat belts. It was also back before parents used any sort of common sense whatsoever. It was a time when you didn’t raise your children. You just fed them and they got bigger. ↗

— Dina Kucera

#growing-up #memoir #family