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A newborn baby has only three demands. They are warmth in the arms of its mother, food from her breasts, and security in the knowledge of her presence. Breastfeeding satisfies all three. ~Grantly Dick-Read



Boy, when you're dead, they really fix you up. I hope to hell when I do die somebody has sense enough to just dump me in the river or something. Anything except sticking me in a goddam cemetery. People coming and putting a bunch of flowers on your stomach on Sunday, and all that crap. Who wants flowers when you're dead? Nobody. ~J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Chapter 20



We hate to have some people give us advice because we know how badly they need it themselves. ~Author Unknown



I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones. ~John Cage



What at first was plunder assumed the softer name of revenue. ~Thomas Paine



Nobody can do everything, but everyone can do something. ~Author Unknown



I'm not sure... about automobiles.... With all their speed forward they may be a step backward in civilization - that is, in spiritual civilization. It may be that they will not add to the beauty of the world, nor to the life of men's souls. I am not sure. But automobiles have come, and they bring a greater change in our life than most of us suspect. They are here, and almost all outward things are going to be different because of what they bring. They are going to alter war, and they are going to alter peace. I think men's minds are going to be changed in subtle ways because of automobiles; just how, though, I could hardly guess. But you can't have the immense outward changes that they will cause without some inward ones, and it may be that... the spiritual alteration will be bad for us. Perhaps, ten or twenty years from now, if we can see the inward change in men by that time, I shouldn't be able to defend the gasoline engine, but would have to agree... that automobiles 'had no business to be invented.' ~Eugene, from Booth Tarkington's The Magnificent Ambersons, 1918



The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live. ~Flora Whittemore



Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers. ~Aldous Huxley



Dear beautiful Spring weather, I miss you. Was it something I said? ~"Skipper" Kim Corbin



Dancing is like dreaming with your feet! ~Constanze



I'm always top banana in the shock department. ~Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany's, 1958, spoken by the character Holly Golightly



America is the best half-educated country in the world. ~Nicholas Murray Butler



Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance. ~Dave Barry



What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches. ~Karl Menninger



You know it's summertime at Candlestick when the fog rolls in, the wind kicks up, and you see the center fielder slicing open a caribou to survive the ninth inning. ~Bob Sarlette



Unselfish and noble actions are the most radiant pages in the biography of souls. ~David Thomas



Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us. ~Oscar Wilde, "The Importance of Being Earnest"



The god who is reputed to have created fleas to keep dogs from moping over their situation must also have created fundamentalists to keep rationalists from getting flabby. Let us be duly thankful for out blessings. ~Garrett Hardin



Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time. ~E.P. Whipple