Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs, rising or falling, grasping at kisses and toys, advancing boldly, sudden to take alarm, retreating to the corner of arm and knee, eager to be reassured, taking pleasure in the fragrant brilliance of the Christmas tree.

The future will be the child of the past and the present, even if a rebellious child.

George Crumb

Sir, they are a race of convicts, and ought to be thankful for anything we allow them short of hanging.

Samuel Johnson

The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated into a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap.

Spiro T. Agnew

A big leather-bound volume makes an ideal razor strap. A thin book is useful to stick under a table with a broken caster to steady it. A large, flat atlas can be used to cover a window with a broken pane. And a thick, old-fashioned heavy book with a clasp is the finest thing in the world to throw at a noisy cat.

Mark Twain

Far more numerous are those as such; who think to little and talk to much.

John Dryden

I mean, language fascinates me anyway, and different words have different energies and you can change the whole drive of a sentence.

Alan Rickman

Act like a champion, and then become one.

Steve Backley

I don't know a greater advantage, than to appreciate the worth of an enemy.

Johann von Goethe

I have opinions of my own, strong opinions, but I don't always agree with them.

George H. W. Bush

I've got a feeling that music might not be the most interesting place to be in the world of things.

Brian Eno

When things are really good, really easy it's not cool for me.

Romario

Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

William Cullen Bryant