Tinkering Toddler Quotes

#1. We gotta do it for Johnny...Let's do it for Johnny!

S.E. Hinton

#2. You have to compromise all the way. The only thing that counts is the result.

Richard Widmark

#3. In my life as an architect, I found that the single thing which inhibits young professionals, new students most severely, is their acceptance of standards that are too low.

Christopher Alexander

#4. The story of Little Blue Riding Hood is true. Only the color has been changed to prevent an investigation.

Stan Freberg

#5. The only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead.

Herman Melville

#6. My family suffered very major losses during the Second World War, that's true. In my father's family, there were five brothers. I think four of them died. On my mother's side the picture was pretty much the same. Russia has suffered great losses. And of course we can't forget that.

Vladimir Putin

#7. You don't have to stop thinking and asking questions to believe in God, child. If He'd wanted a flock of eight billion sheep, He wouldn't have given us opposable thumbs, much less free will.

Hillary Jordan

#8. History never repeats itself; at best it sometimes rhymes.

Mark Twain

#9. Thank God there are places
with sounds that make me cry
from beauty,
not from pain.

Stasia Ward Kehoe

#10. We think of Euclid as of fine ice; we admire Newton as we admire the peak of Teneriffe. Even the intensest labors, the most remote triumphs of the abstract intellect, seem to carry us into a region different from our own-to be in a terra incognita of pure reasoning, to cast a chill on human glory.

Walter Bagehot

#11. People who refuse to let go often make small requests that appear reasonable, like Tommy's letter of reference, though the real purpose of such requests is to cement attachment or gain new reasons for contact.

Gavin De Becker

#12. Danger is the very basis of superstition. It produces a searching after help supernaturally when human means are no longer supposed to be available.

Benjamin Haydon