Judge Bedford: Planning on having children? David: Naturally.... Judge Bedford: Good, then I know what to get you for a wedding present. David: Yeah? What's that? Judge Bedford: A vasectomy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Judge Bedford: I understand you refuse to be represented by counsel. Walter: That's correct, your honor.... Judge Bedford: Are you suicidal, Mr. Davis, or just plain stupid?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Muriel Bedford: It isn't every day that your only son gets married. Judge Bedford: He's your son, too, Muriel. I mean it's ab...out time you started taking half the blame.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The only thing that was dispensed free to the old New Bedford whalemen was a Bible. A well-known owner of one of that city's whali...ng fleets once described the Bible as the best cheap investment a shipowner could make.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There might be seen here on the bank of the Merrimack, near Goff's Falls, in what is now the town of Bedford,... some graves of th...e aborigines. The land still bears this scar here, and time is slowly crumbling the bones of a race. Yet, without fail, every spring, since they first fished and hunted here, the brown thrasher has heralded the morning from a birch or alder spray, and the undying race of reed-birds still rustles through the withering grass. But these bones rustle not. These mouldering elements are slowly preparing for another metamorphosis, to serve new masters, and what was the Indian's will ere long be the white man's sinew.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When, said Mr. Phillips, he communicated to a New Bedford audience, the other day, his purpose of writing his life, and telling hi...s name, and the name of his master, and the place he ran from, the murmur ran round the room, and was anxiously whispered by the sons of the Pilgrims, "He had better not!" and it was echoed under the shadow of the Concord monument, "He had better not!"LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A part, a large part, of travelling is an engagement of the ego v. the world.... The world is hydra headed, as old as the rocks an...d as changing as the sea, enmeshed inextricably in its ways. The ego wants to arrive at places safely and on time.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I long for scenes where man has never trod A place where woman never smiled or wept There to abide with my Creator God And sleep a...s I in childhood sweetly slept, Untroubling and untroubled where I lie The grass below, above, the vaulted sky.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »