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“Before you know it you'll be my age telling your own granddaughter the story of your life and you wanna make it an interesting one, don't you? You wanna be able to tell her some adventures, some excitements, some something. How you live your life, little one, is a gift for those who come after you, a kind of inheritance.”
Source : Cristina Garcia (2009). “I Wanna Be Your Shoebox”, p.44, Simon and Schuster
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“My father never raised his hand to any one of his children, except in self-defense.”
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“The government of the Union, then, ... is, emphatically, and truly, a government of the people. In form and in substance it emanates from them. Its powers are granted by them, and are to be exercised directly on them, and for their benefit.”
Source : Gerald Gunther, John Marshall (1969). “John Marshall's Defense of McCulloch V. Maryland”, p.26, Stanford University Press
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“Self-responsibility is the core quality of the fully mature, fully functioning, self-actualizing individual.”
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“I've never dated. I can say this honestly: I don't know what it's like to date. But also, how am I going to date? I'm not in one state long enough.”
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“School divides life into two segments, which are increasingly of comparable length. As much as anything else, schooling implies custodial care for persons who are declared undesirable elsewhere by the simple fact that a school has been built to serve them.”
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“We ended up moving out to Texas. We live outside of Austin. We've got a couple horses, we've got three miniature donkeys, we've got four dogs. Miniature donkeys are very warm, loving animals”
Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“I don't think there's more than half-a-dozen cartoons that I've been really truly happy with in all the time I've been doing it.”
Source : "'Oliphant's Anthem' Exhibition Commemorates Cartoonist's Work". Interview with Harry Katz, www.loc.gov. October 20 and 21, 1997.