“Every sentence has its drumbeat. rhythm is one of the most powerful dimensions of language: it separates tribes, united families, soothes children, and shocks us into new awarenesses. Every good writer, marching to his or her own drumbeat, marks out a vibrational field as home territory. The cadences of our sentences carry echos of ancestry and influence as surely as the double helix that orchstrates the life of the body.” WritingChildrenHomeBodyLanguageUnitedPowerfulInfluenceAwarenessFieldsMarkVery GoodSentencesRhythmDimensionsShockMost PowerfulSongwritingTerritoryTribesAncestryGood WritersCadenceUnited Family Author:Marilyn Chandler McEntyre
“I'd come home from school alone with those teenage blues and I'd put on Frank Sinatra's It was a very good year. Here was this mature man singing about the cycle of his life, and as a kid I felt the emotions of it already. It has since been a touchstone for me whenever I want to experiment musically.” MenWantInspirationalYearsHomeKidsSchoolFeltEmotionSingingVery GoodExperimentsCyclesMatureComing HomeFrankTeenageTouchstonesGood Years Author:Iggy Pop
“I know that the only completely happy life for man and for woman is their life, first together, and then with their children. I am a firm believer that no marriage can be really happy, and no home a happy one for the children as well, unless man puts woman first and woman puts man first, each for the other the giver of every good gift. Children are the fruit of this total love.” KnowsMenFirstsWellsChildrenHomeTogetherFruitVery GoodBelieverFirmHappy LifeGiverReally Happy Author:Pearl S. Buck
“I went home and took my wife and went to my Cosen Tho. Pepys's and found them just sat down to dinner, which was very good; only the venison pasty was palpable beef, which was not handsome.” HomeFoundWifeFoodCookingVery GoodDinnerMy WifeSatCulinaryHandsomeBeefVenisonPasties Book:The Diary of Samuel Pepys Source: The Diary of Samuel Pepys
“I'm useless scrabbling around at home. I get on everyone's nerves, including my own. I'm not very good at amusing myself.” HomeMy OwnIncludingVery GoodUselessNervesAmusing Author:Laurence Fox