Their holders have always seemed to me like a woman who should undertake at a state fair to run a sewing machine, under pretense o...f advertising it, while she had never spent an hour in learning its use.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When I show my grandchildren, I have a wonderful feeling of pride. I say, "See that crane way, way up there? Grandma used to run a... crane like that during the war."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
One has to have run a household before one can know the price of rice and firewood, and one has to have raised children before one... can understand a parent's love.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The child to be concerned about is the one who is actively unhappy, [in school].... In the long run, a child's emotional developme...nt has a far greater impact on his life than his school performance or the curriculum's richness, so it is wise to do everything possible to change a situation in which a child is suffering excessively.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
All Presidents start out to run a crusade but after a couple of years they find they are running something less heroic and much mo...re intractable: namely the presidency. The people are well cured by then of election fever, during which they think they are choosing Moses. In the third year, they look on the man as a sinner and a bumbler and begin to poke around for rumours of another Messiah.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Bad child care is the nightmare from which no mother can escape. The professional who can run a business or save a life . . . the ...mother who can organize a community fund-raiser while entertaining two toddlers and nursing a baby--no matter how thoroughly they've investigated a nanny, no matter how many years they've known their sitter, all walk out the door haunted by the specter that the sitter or staff member to whom they've entrusted their most precious responsibility is a Hyde masquerading as a Jekyll, or otherwise not the women they thought her to be.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is a certain embarrassment about being a storyteller in these times when stories are considered not quite as satisfying as s...tatements and statements not quite as satisfying as statistics; but in the long run, a people is known, not by its statements or its statistics, but by the stories it tells.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We have passed the time of ... the laisser-faire [sic] school which believes that the government ought to do nothing but run a pol...ice force.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »