"Manners will become important to children only if they are important to their parents."

“The Republican critique here is that Russia is in a weak situation, but has been emboldened by a weak response from the United States, that in Ukraine, that in other places, the United States has not stepped forward.”

“I'm not going to mortgage the Eagles' future for Marcus Mariota.”

“I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea.”

“When you get knocked down you get knocked down in Round 1 of life, there's Round 2.”

Source : "Justin Bieber's Mom Has Her Own Story To Tell". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com.

“I’ve talked to guys who have played for the Phillies and gone on to other organizations and the grass isn’t always greener on the other side.”

“Irony has seeped into the felt of any fedora hat I have ever owned - not out of any wish of mine, but out of necessity. A fedora hat worn by me without the necessary protective irony would eat through my head and kill me.”

Source : George W. S. Trow (1981). “Within the Context of No Context”, p.119, Atlantic Monthly Press

“Morals and lights are our first necessities.”

“Before getting to my mother's house, I would always think of her on the porch or even on the street, sweeping. She had a light way of sweeping, as if removing the dirt were not as important as moving the broom over the ground. Her way of sweeping was symbolic; so airy, so fragile, with a broom she tried to sweep away all the horrors, all the loneliness, all the misery that had accompanied her all her life...”

Source : Reinaldo Arenas (2010). “Before Night Falls”, p.142, Profile Books