Best masters for the young writer and speaker are the fault- finding brothers and sisters at home who will not spare him, but will... pick and cavil, and tell the odious truth.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface. We may will ...call it black diamonds. Every basket is power and civilization. For coal is a portable climate.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There's Margaret and Marjorie and Dorothy and Nan, A Daphne and a Mary who live in privacy;... One's had her fill of lovers, another's had but one, Another boasts, "I pick and choose and have but two or three." If head and limb have beauty and the instep's high and light They can spread out what sail they please for all I have to say....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Strictly speaking, one cannot legislate love, but what one can do is legislate fairness and justice. If legislation does not prohi...bit our living side by side, sooner or later your child will fall on the pavement and I'll be the one to pick her up. Or one of my children will not be able to get into the house and you'll have to say, "Stop here until your mom comes here." Legislation affords us the chance to see if we might love each other.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To worry about spoiling an infant by comforting him when he cries is needless.... If you put the baby down and the baby cries, pic...k him up. His crying isn't a habit you should try to break. Your baby can't be taught not to cry.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The way I see it, God gave me the body, so I intend to use it. It's a big ego trip.... You know, you look around a bar, you pick o...ut a guy and you say, that's the one: I'm going to take all of his money tonight.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The learned professors have been at considerable pains in their attempts to make a distinction between tools and implements on the... one hand, and machinery on the other. Nor have they arrived much of anywhere. The one is continually shading into the other. Here is an ordinary shovel used by a day labourer in a ditch; here is the same shovel with a somewhat thicker handle, containing a pneumatic attachment which is said to improve its digging power; here is a very much larger shovel with curved ends and steel teeth, hitched to an arm that is hitched to a steam engine, which can gobble up a cartload of dirt at one mouthful. Where does the tool stop and the machine begin? A grindstone is widely held to be a primitive tool; a turret lathe is widely held to be a machine. Both spin around. What is the essential difference? The employment of nonhuman power, steam, oil, gas, has been defined as the difference. Well and good. Then everything worked by human hands and legs is a tool only, and bicycles, typewriters, adding machines, sewing machines, foot lathes, clocks, hand-pumps--are not machines. Which is absurd. And what is one to do with treadmills for grinding corn, whose motive power is said by some to be the donkey, and by some the carrot in front of his nose?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Friendship is learned by watching and listening to you. If she sees that your friends are people you like and trust and don't pret...end with--people who suit you--she probably won't pick friends who just pass by, or people who can help her or improve her status. If you treat friends in a special way, if you are kinder, more generous, more sympathetic, more forgiving with friends, she probably will be, too.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Many children grow through adolescence with no ripples whatever and land smoothly and predictably in the adult world with both fee...t on the ground. Some who have stumbled and bumbled through childhood suddenly burst into bloom. Most shake, steady themselves, zigzag, fight, retreat, pick up, take new bearings, and finally find their own true balance.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »