"Don't try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it."

-- Russell Baker

#Children Quotes #Growing Up Quotes #Parenting Quotes

“Winning the world championship in '66 was really the pinnacle of the whole thing, because to win a championship with an Australian made engine was a fantastic feather in our cap...”
“The locomotives are black. The coal is black. The tracks are black. The night is black. So what am I going to do with color?”
“All men now allow that if any human power could have stemmed the avalanche of the French Revolution, it would have been the reforms of Turgot.”

Source : "The Friends of Voltaire". Book by Evelyn Beatrice Hall, 1906.
“I like an ending that's both a door and a window.”
“When I first encountered the poems of Jon Woodward, I was stunned into the state that is my life's joy-I was in the presence of the inimitable. Uncanny Valley extends that experience-almost into another dimension. These apocalyptic, pixilated poems forge a mythology of our ravaged culture, one that might have been written in the future. If you want poetry to give you a persimmon on a plate, look elsewhere; if you want to know what happens when seven trees fall on the highway and the story is told by a stutterer, this is the book, and it could only have been written by Woodward.”
“I was very frightened when I turned forty. I suddenly thought I ought to wake up and be speaking with the voice of God.”
“[M]y work, which I've done for a long time, was not pursued in order to gain the praise I now enjoy, but chiefly from a craving after knowledge, which I notice resides in me more than in most other men. And therewithal, whenever I found out anything remarkable, I have thought it my duty to put down my discovery on paper, so that all ingenious people might be informed thereof.”
“If you read my blog, you know I'm a pilates freak. And by pilates, I mean waffles.”

Source : "Saturday Night Live", March 06, 2010.

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