Splash In Puddles Quotes & Sayings

Have you noticed how children never bypass a puddle of water, but jump, splash, and slosh right through it? That's because they know an important truth: Life was meant to be lived; puddles were meant to be experienced. — Richelle E. Goodrich

Curves are the essence of my work because they are the essence of Brazil, pure and simple. — Oscar Niemeyer

God requireth not an uniformity of Religion to be inacted and inforced in any civill state. — Roger Williams

We're building a great company, and we're very excited about the future of the company. — Jim Barksdale

If there's one thing I learned in Alanon, it's that you got to face the music because it just grows louder when you ignore it. — Vicki Covington

Every recreant who proved his timidity in the hour of danger, was afterwards boldest in words and tongue. — Tacitus

Cezanne is the Christopher Columbus of a new continent of form. — Clive Bell

Your only real problem is mortality! No religion can solve this problem, but science can do! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Our impulses are our birthright. To alter personality would be unjust, almost criminal, for the impulses that make a fool or worse of us in certain circumstances may be necessary for our happiness. — Gertrude Atherton

Ma and God

God gave us fingers--Ma says, "Use your fork."
God gave us voices--Ma says, "Don't scream."
Ma says eat broccoli, cereal and carrots.
But God gave us tasteys for maple ice cream.

God gave us fingers--Ma says, "Use your hanky."
God gave us puddles--Ma says, "Don't splash."
Ma says, "Be quiet, your father is sleeping."
But God gave us garbage can covers to crash.

God gave us fingers--Ma says, "Put your gloves on."
God gave us raindrops--Ma says, "Don't get wet."
Ma says be careful, and don't get too near to
Thoses strange lovely dogs that God gave us to pet.

God gave us fingers--Ma says, "Go wash 'em."
But God gave us coal bins and nice dirty bodies.
And I ain't too smart, but there's one thing for certain--
Either Ma's wrong or else God is. — Shel Silverstein

I saw literature as a fantasy, no less absorbing for all its irrelevance - a parallel life, as dreams shadow waking but never intersect it. — Edmund White

- But we keep on going, he continued, fostering all kinds of crazy hopes. To redeem the lost, some sliver of personal revelation. It's an addiction, like playing the slots, or a game of golf. — Patti Smith