I think it is better to show love by meeting needs than to keep telling my son that I love him. Right now he is learning to tie hi...s shoes. He is old enough, so even though it's hard for him, sometimes I insist. But once in a while when I see he's tired I still do it for him, and I have noticed that while I am tying his shoe, he says, "I love you, Mommy." When he says, "I love you," I know that he knows that he is loved.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Women know The way to rear up children (to be just),... They know a simple, merry, tender knack Of tying sashes, fitting baby-shoes, And stringing pretty words that make no sense, And kissing full sense into empty words.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To the young mind, every thing is individual, stands by itself. By and by, it finds how to join two things, and see in them one na...ture; then three, then three thousand; and so, tyrannized over by its own unifying instinct, it goes on tying things together, diminishing anomalies, discovering roots running underground, whereby contrary and remote things cohere, and flower out from one stem.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It was part of the Texas ritual. We're rich as son-of-a-bitch stew but look how homely we are, just as plain-folksy as Grandpappy ...back in 1836. We know about champagne and caviar but we talk hog and hominy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The average parent may, for example, plant an artist or fertilize a ballet dancer and end up with a certified public accountant. W...e cannot train children along chicken wire to make them grow in the right direction. Tying them to stakes is frowned upon, even in Massachusetts.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Man with lantern: Who are you? Captain: The Flying Cloud. 220 days out of New York and 50 days trying to find your blasted ha...rbor. Man with lantern: Nobody asked you to come. Captain: Got anything in this hog-end of the world except fog? Man with lantern: Sure, we've got gold, fountains of gold.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
America is no place for an artist: to be an artist is to be a moral leper, an economic misfit, a social liability. A corn-fed hog ...enjoys a better life than a creative writer, painter, or musician. To be a rabbit is better still.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Hog Butcher for the World, Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat,... Player with Railroads and the Nation's Freight Handler; Stormy, husky, brawling, City of the Big Shoulders.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
one is in a shoe factory cursing the machine, one is at the aquarium tending a seal,... one is dull at the wheel of her Ford, one is at the toll gate collecting, one is tying the cord of a calf in Arizona, one is straddling a cello in Russia....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »