This was the dawn of plastic eating in America. . . . We doted on Velveeta. Spam. Canned ravioli. Instant puddings. Instant anything. The farther a thing was from the texture, flavor, and terrifying unpredictability of real food, the better. —Shirley Abbott More about this quote Tags: reality USA America food better flavor Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
More quotations from Shirley Abbott We all grow up with the weight of history on us. Our ancestors dwell in the attics of our brains as they do in the spiraling chains of knowledge hidden in every cell of our bodies. —Shirley Abbott More about this quote Tags: history knowledge Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email As I grew to adolescence, I imagined, from closely observing the boredom and vexations of matrimony, that the act my parents committed and the one I so longed to commit must be two different things. —Shirley Abbott More about this quote Tags: parents boredom marriage Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We all grow up with the weight of history on us. Our ancestors dwell in the attics of our brains as they do in the spiraling chains of knowledge hidden in every cell of our bodies. —Shirley Abbott More about this quote Tags: history knowledge Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
As I grew to adolescence, I imagined, from closely observing the boredom and vexations of matrimony, that the act my parents committed and the one I so longed to commit must be two different things. —Shirley Abbott More about this quote Tags: parents boredom marriage Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
More quotations tagged with “better” Love's about finding the one person who makes your heart complete. Who makes you a better person than you ever dreamed you could be. —Julia Quinn in The Viscount Who Loved Me More about this quote Tags: love relationships completion better Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email I believe that having something to hope for—even if it's just a better tomorrow—is the most powerful drug on this planet. —Jodi Picoult in The Storyteller More about this quote Tags: power hope better Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email I'm tired of waiting. It's time for us to find our own voice, to do our own organizing, to push forward on reform, to push forward on issues of economic justice, and to make the United States of America, this good country, even better. —Paul Wellstone More about this quote Tags: justice action USA waiting better Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email It's better to go into the world half-cocked than not to go into the world at all. —James Hillman More about this quote Tags: action world better Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Our ideals are our better selves. —Amos Bronson Alcott More about this quote Tags: morality self better ideals Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Love's about finding the one person who makes your heart complete. Who makes you a better person than you ever dreamed you could be. —Julia Quinn in The Viscount Who Loved Me More about this quote Tags: love relationships completion better Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I believe that having something to hope for—even if it's just a better tomorrow—is the most powerful drug on this planet. —Jodi Picoult in The Storyteller More about this quote Tags: power hope better Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I'm tired of waiting. It's time for us to find our own voice, to do our own organizing, to push forward on reform, to push forward on issues of economic justice, and to make the United States of America, this good country, even better. —Paul Wellstone More about this quote Tags: justice action USA waiting better Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It's better to go into the world half-cocked than not to go into the world at all. —James Hillman More about this quote Tags: action world better Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Our ideals are our better selves. —Amos Bronson Alcott More about this quote Tags: morality self better ideals Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email