If we allow our one-and-a-half year old to "help" us fold laundry he will learn something about buttons, zippers, snaps, where thi...ngs go, the physical properties of cloth, what happens when you drop it, how easy or hard it is to carry compared with everything else he has ever carried, what clean clothes smell like, how a big towel can turn into a small bundle, how the small bundle you just folded can turn into a big towel again, plus any songs we care to sing or stories or related or unrelated facts we care to pass on.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Being offended is the natural consequence of leaving one's home. I do not like after- shave lotion, adults who roller-skate, child...ren who speak French, or anyone who is unduly tan. I do not, however, go around enacting legislation and putting up signs.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The essence of science is that it is always willing to abandon a given idea, however fundamental it may seem to be, for a better o...ne; the essence of theology is that it holds its truths to be eternal and immutable. To be sure, theology is always yielding a little to the progress of knowledge, and only a Holy Roller in the mountains of Tennessee would dare to preach today what the popes preached in the Thirteenth Century, but this yielding is always done grudgingly, and thus lingers a good while behind the event.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To believe that Russia has got rid of the evils of capitalism takes a special kind of mind. It is the same kind of mind that belie...ves that a Holy Roller has got rid of sin.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
she bit the towel and called on God and I saw her life stretch out . . .... I saw her torn in childbirth, and I saw her, at that moment, in her own death and I knew that she knew.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And thus Snow White became the prince's bride. The wicked queen was invited to the wedding feast... and when she arrived there were red-hot iron shoes, in the manner of red-hot roller skates, clamped upon her feet.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is joy in all:... in the hair I brush each morning, in the Cannon towel, newly washed, that I rub my body with each morning....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »