(43 quotes found)
“Likely as not, the child you can do the least with will do the most to make you proud.”
Mignon McLaughlin
“There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone; but, years after, we know it was much later.”
“If you are brave too often, people will come to expect it of you.”
“No matter how brilliantly an idea is stated, we will not really be moved unless we have already half thought of it ourselves”
“It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.”
“Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children.”
“I'm glad I don't have to explain to a man from Mars why each day I set fire to dozens of little pieces of paper, and then put them in my mouth.”
“Courage can't see around corners, but goes around them anyway.”
“It took man thousands of years to put words down on paper, and his lawyers still wish he wouldn't”
“Most sermons sound to me like commercials - but I can't make out whether God is the Sponsor or the Product.”