Baliw Banat Quotes & Sayings

What has become of the world, when children are looked upon by their parents as trophies to be won? — Donald Allen Kirch

The entire road trip could be summed up as one giant attempt to keep from crashing the car during fits of rage and fits of hysteria. — Kari Martindale

I started buying bits of broken porcelain. I furnished our first flat with pieces of 'junk.' Some of that 'junk' is now worth an awful lot of money. What I was calling 'junk' in the '60s people wouldn't call 'junk' now. — Judith Miller

Let's imagine that 95 percent of the food on Earth magically disappears tonight, guaranteeing that almost all of us will starve to death within two months. Law and order collapse. Chaos and mayhem ensue. Who among us will still be alive a year from now? Will it be the biggest, strongest, and most violent individuals in each town? Or will it be the people who manage to work together in groups to monopolize, hide, and share the remaining food supplies among themselves? — Jonathan Haidt

The problem I have with carbon as a bad thing issue, is that people go out and say they want to be zero carbon. You see it everywhere. — William McDonough

Sing in me, muse, of arms and a man, who first from the shores of Troy. — Virgil

I said if you're thinkin' of being my brother, it don't matter if you're black or white. — Michael Jackson

There is considerable hypocrisy in conventionalism. Any thinking person is aware of this paradox; but in dealing with conventional people it is advantageous to treat them as though they were not hypocrites. It isn't a question of faithfulness to your own concepts; it is a matter of compromise so that you can remain an individual without the constant threat of conventional pressures. — Truman Capote

Making bombs will only destroy us. It doesn't matter whether we use them or not. They will destroy us either way. — Arundhati Roy

According to convention there is a sweet and a bitter, a hot and a cold, and according to convention, there is an order. In truth, there are atoms and a void. — Democritus

I'm the oldest of six children and I had my own first baby when I was 23. So I've always been interested in babies, and I had lots of opportunities to watch them. — Alison Gopnik

I secretly want to be a rapper! — Rachel Bilson

It took me three weeks to stuff the turkey. I stuffed it through the beak. — Phyllis Diller