The demonstrations are always early in the morning, at six o'clock. It's wonderful, because I'm not doing anything at six anyway, ...so why not demonstrate?... When you've written to your president, to your congressman, to your senator and nothing, nothing has come of it, you take to the streets.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In the last thirty years ... there has been a remarkable change in the image and roles of children. Childhood as a protected and s...heltered period of life has all but disappeared. Children today seems less "childlike." Children speak more like adults, dress more like adults, and behave more like adults than they used to. In fact, the reverse is also true. There are indications that many adults who have come of age within the last twenty years continue to speak, dress, and act much like overgrown children. Certainly, all children and adults do not and cannot behave exactly alike, but there are many more similarities in behavior than in the past. The traditional dividing lines are gone.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Miss Watson she took me in the closet and prayed, but nothing come of it. She told me to pray every day, and whatever I asked for ...I would get it. But it warn't so. I tried it. Once I got a fish-line, but no hooks. It warn't any good to me without hooks.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I've always reckoned that looking at the new moon over your left shoulder is one of the carelessest and foolishest things a body c...an do. Old Hank Bunker done it once, and bragged about it; and in less than two years he got drunk and fell off of the shot tower and spread himself out so that he was just a kind of layer, as you may say; and they slid him edgeways between two barn doors for a coffin, and buried him so, so they say, but I didn't see it. Pap told me. But anyway, it all come of looking at the moon that way, like a fool.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The plot was most interesting. It belonged to no particular age, people, or country, and was perhaps the more delightful on that a...ccount, as nobody's previous information could afford the remotest glimmering of what would ever come of it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I didn't lead a very wise life, myself, but it was a full one and a grown-up one. You come of age very quickly through shipwreck a...nd disaster.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Why should all virtue work in one and the same way? Why should all give dollars? It is very inconvenient to us country folk, and w...e do not think any good will come of it. We have not dollars; merchants have; let them give them. Farmers will give corn; poets will sing; women will sew; laborers will lend a hand; the children will bring flowers.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The greatest waste of time he knew of was to count the hours--what good can come of it?--and the greatest illusion in the world, t...o lead one's day by the sound of the clock, and not by precepts of common sense and understanding.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »