"... if they [your children] write their names in the dust on the furniture, don't let them put the year."

-- Phyllis Diller

#Children Quotes #Writing Quotes #Dust Quotes

“There is one kind of prison where the man is behind bars, and everything that he desires is outside; and there is another kind where the things are behind the bars, and the man is outside.”

Source : Upton Sinclair (2015). “The Jungle: A Novel”, p.303, Open Road Media
“Firearms stand next in importance to the Constitution itself. They are the American people's liberty, teeth and keystone under independence. The church, the plow, the prairie wagon and the citizen's firearms are indelibly related.”
“I just try to be relax, because I'm always been a relaxed person.”
“In nature, creatures never ended the lives of others except to survive. To women, abortion was self-defense and preservation of the species. Abortion was not a fancy borne out of the female mind. Abortion was instinct beyond ideas. Abortion was fear (the cat that devours its litter when a predator nears).”

Source : Ana Castillo (1990). “Sapogonia: (an Anti-romance in 3/8 Meter)”, Bilingual Press
“I always knew I wanted to make my own way; I never wanted to be dependent on my father.”

Source : "Jimmy Choo's Tamara Mellon" by Nancy Hass, www.elle.com. October 14, 2009.
“And I am sure that I never read any memorable news in a newspaper. If we read of one man robbed, or murdered, or killed by accident, or one house burned, or one vessel wrecked, or one steamboat blown up, or one cow run over on the Western Railroad, or one mad dog killed, or one lot of grasshoppers in the winter, - we need never read of another. One is enough. If you are acquainted with the principle, what do you care for a myriad instances and applications?”
“I'm friends with [David] Fincher. [James] Cameron gives me advice. I know a fair amount of directors who have been through it, and they all felt pretty confident that I would be fine when I got my shot. So their confidence made me feel confident.”
“Let a man be firmly principled in his religion, he may travel from the tropics to the poles, it will never catch cold on the journey.”

Source : William Morley Punshon (1873). “Lectures and Sermons”, p.8, Adam, Stevenson

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