"Babies haven't any hair; Old men's heads are just as bare; between the cradle and the grave lie a haircut and a shave."

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Source : Samuel Hoffenstein (1954). “Complete Poetry”

Samuel Hoffenstein

#Mom Quotes #Baby Quotes #Lying Quotes

“In New York City, when they develop something, they never use the old buildings. It's so wasteful. Why not use what's there?”

Source : "Modern Music Masters: Nellie McKay". Interview with Pat Cerasaro, www.broadwayworld.com. October 3, 2010.
“Here lay Cain's fatal mistake: "He was rejected, not because he was a sinner, but because, being a sinner, he had dared to approach a holy God without blood."”
“There is a god within us, and the heavens Have intercourse with earth; from realms above That spirit comes.”
“32 grams raw, chop it in half, get 16. Double it times three, we got 48. Which mean a whole lot of cream. Divide the profit by four. Subtract it by eight. We back to 16.”
“I never get bored of a workout, because I feel great after a session.”
“We stayed huddled that way until the early hours of the morning. The shootings and explosions had lasted less than an hour, but they had frightened us badly, because none of us had ever heard gunshots in the streets. They were foreign sounds to us then. The generation of Afghan children whose ears would know nothing but the sounds of bombs and gunfire was not yet born...”
“The perfect disinterestedness and self-devotion of which men seem incapable, but which is sometimes found in women.”
“For the weak who seek power it'll bring, infallible the power, knowledge is king.”

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