Sleeping On Mother's Lap Quotes & Sayings

If men were to colonize the moon or Mars - even with abundant supplies of oxygen, water, and food, as well as adequate protection against heat, cold, and radiation - they would not long retain their humanness, because they would be deprived of those stimuli which only Earth can provide. Similarly, we shall progressively lose our humanness even on Earth if we continue to pour filth into the atmosphere; to befoul soil, lakes, and rivers; to disfigure landscapes with junkpiles; to destroy wild plants and animals that do not contribute to monetary values; and thus transform the globe into an environment alien to our evolutionary past. The quality of human life is inextricably interwoven with the kinds and variety of stimuli man receives from the Earth and the life it harbors, because human nature is shaped biologically and mentally by external nature. (Rene Dubos qtd. in Kaltreider) — Kurt Kaltreider

Writing is a legal way of avoiding work without actually stealing and one that doesn't take any talent or training — Robert A. Heinlein

I've had rooms that didn't come out to my liking. — Douglas Wilson

I am so crazy with my music taste and I'm so ... I mean, I'll listen to a song. I'll become obsessed with it and then I'm on to the next one. It's just very inconsistent. — Taylor Lautner

There were worse things to be than sexist. For example, you could be the sort of person who pinched your fingers together while using the words teeny weeny. — Liane Moriarty

The advantages of wealth are greatly exaggerated. — Leland Stanford

When I can't sleep I count the buckles on my straightjacket. — Cathie Linz

Man only plays when he is in the fullest sense of the word a human being, and he is only fully a human being when he plays — Friedrich Schiller

Educating people beyond their intellectual means is a disservice to humanity. A clueless person who knows little is a nuisance; a clueless person who knows a lot is a menace. — George Jonas