Quotes by American Authors - Page 84

People who throw kisses are hopelessly lazy.
Bob Hope
I have found men who didn't know how to kiss. I've always found time to teach them.
Mae West
Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.
Lynda Barry
Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.
Ice-T
You call it madness but I call it love.
Don Byas
In my sex fantasy nobody ever loves me for my mind.
Nora Ephron
We are adhering to life now with our last muscle - the heart.
Djuna Barnes
From the solitude of the wood (Man) has passed to the more dreadful solitude of the heart.
Loren Eiseley
Nobody has ever measured even poets how much a heart can hold.
Zelda Fitzgerald
Disappointments should be cremated not embalmed.
Henry S. Haskins
Fanaticism consists in redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
George Santayana
The only people for me are the mad ones the ones who are mad to live mad to talk mad to be saved . . . the ones who never yawn and say a commonplace thing but burn burn burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars.
Jack Kerouac
People don't ask for facts in making up their minds. They would rather have one good soul-satisfying emotion than a dozen facts.
Robert Keith Leavitt
If I could not go to Heaven but with a party I would not go there at all.
Thomas Jefferson
Political parties serve to keep each other in check one keenly watching the other.
Henry Clay
The sweetest flower that blows I give you as we part. For you it is a rose For me it is my heart.
Frederick Peterson
It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.
Eric Hoffer
People should be free to find or make for themselves the kinds of educational experiences they want their children to have.
John Holt
Your children need your presence more than your presents.
Jesse Jackson
Insanity is hereditary - you can get it from your children.
Sam Levenson
The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and in a sense tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother and to become fully independent.
Erich Fromm
What the mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.
Henry Ward Beecher
The thing about having a baby is that thereafter you have it.
Jean Kerr
I must study politics and war that my sons may have the liberty to study mathematics and philosophy geography natural history and naval architecture navigation commerce and agriculture in order to give their children a right to study painting poetry music architecture statuary tapestry and porcelain.
John Adams
Whatever you would have your children become strive to exhibit in your own lives and conversation.
Lydia H. Sigourney
No matter how old a mother is she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.
Florida Scott-Maxwell
Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal with nothing to do but keep his house open to hope.
John Ciardi
Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.
Will Durant
To bring up a child in the way he should go travel that way yourself once in a while.
Josh Billings
I demand for the unmarried mother as a sacred channel of life the same reverence and respect as for the married mother for Maternity is a cosmic thing and once it has come to pass our conventions must not be permitted to blaspheme it.
Ben Lindsey
You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's. He's more particular.
Robert Frost
The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence S. Darrow
Everyone likes to think that he has done reasonably well in life so that it comes as a shock to find our children believing differently. The temptation is to tune them out it takes much more courage to listen.
John D. Rockefeller III
Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.
Alvin Toffler
Parents accept their obsolescence with the best grace they can muster. . . they do all they can to make it easy for the younger generation to surpass the older while secretly dreading the rejection that follows.
Christopher Lasch
A Jewish man with parents alive is a 15-year-old boy and will remain a 15-year-old boy until they die.
Philip Roth
There is no friendship no love like that of the parent for the child.
Henry Ward Beecher
Pictures must not be too picturesque.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a better idea.
John Ciardi
I paint from the top down. First the sky then the mountains then the hills then the houses then the cattle and then the people.
Grandma Moses
The idea is in my head to put it down is nothing.
Milton Avery
To say to the painter that Nature is to be taken as she is is to say to the player that he may sit on the piano.
James McNeill Whistler
Painting n: the art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic.
Ambrose Bierce
If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.
Edward Hopper
Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.
John Singer Sargent
Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants and to serve them one's self?
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The possession of gold has ruined fewer men than the lack of it.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or on being.
William James
I don't want to own anything that won't fit into my coffin.
Fred Allen
Whatever is not nailed down is mine. Whatever I can pry loose is not nailed down.
Collis P. Huntington
The landscape should belong to the people who see it all the time.
Le Roi Jones
Broad acres are a patent of nobility and no man but feels more of a man in the world if he have a bit of ground that he can call his own. However small it is on the surface it is 4000 miles deep and that is a very handsome property.
Charles Dudley Warner
You got a harem of seventy girls you don't get to know any of them very well.
Billy Rose
The first and great commandment is don't let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
Fear is only an illusion. It is the illusion that creates the feeling of separ-ateness-the false sense of isolation that exists only in your imagination.
Jeraldine Saunders
Stripped of all their masquerades the fears of men are quite identical: the fear of loneliness rejection inferiority unmanageable anger illness and death.
Joshua L. Liebman
Fear has a large shadow but he himself is small.
J. Ruth Gendler
Pitching is the art of instilling fear by making a man flinch.
Sandy Koufax
Fear nothing for every renewed effort raises all former failures into lessons all sins into experience.
Katherine Tingley
While we wait in silence for that final luxury of fearlessness the weight of that silence will choke us.
Audre Lorde