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- A child's hand in yours -- what tenderness and power it arouses. You are instantly the very touchstone of wisdom and strength.
- Marjorie Holmes
- Use missteps as stepping stones to deeper understanding and greater achievement.
- Susan Taylor
- For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can't readily accept the God formula, the big answers don't remain stone-written. We adjust to new conditions and discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a command or faith a dictum. I am my own God. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.
- Charles Bukowski (1920 - 1994)
- The seven deadly sins ... Food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes, respectability and children. Nothing can lift those seven milestones from man's neck but money; and the spirit cannot soar until the milestones are lifted.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- Why can't they invent something for us to marry instead of WOMEN?
- Fred Flintstone
- Let us cross the river, and rest under the trees.
- Thomas Jonathan [Stonewall] Jackson, last words, 10 May 1863.
- It is often pleasant to stone a martyr, no matter how much we admire him.
- John Barth (1930 - )
- Where desire writhed there stands a stone; the change was sudden and complete.
- Maggie Roche
- Delores breezed along the surface of her life like a flat stone forever skipping along smooth water, rippling reality sporadically but oblivious to it consistently, until she finally lost momentum, sank, and due to an over- dose of flouride as a child which caused her to suffer from chronic apathy, doomed herself to lie forever on the floor of her life as useless as an appendix and as lonely as a five-hundred pound barbell in a steroid-free fitness center.
- Winning sentence, 1990 Bulwer-Lytton bad fiction contest.
- I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
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