"I'm not going to buy my kids..." - Quote by Yogi Berra
I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.
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“Anyone who understands Jazz knows that you can't understand it. It's too complicated. That's what's so simple about it.”
“A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore.”
“I've always felt real blessed, especially to live in this country. If you dream hard and work hard, anything can happen here-I'm perfect proof.”
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“My dear young lady, there was a great deal of truth; I dare say, in what you said, and you looked very pretty while you said it, which is much more important.”
“Hitler built a fortress around Europe, but he forgot to put a roof on it.”
“It is a curious fact that people are never so trivial as when they take themselves seriously”
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“Treat your children like the blessings they are or don't have them at all.”
“Although a science fair can seem like a big "pain" it can help you understand important scientific principles, such as Newton's First Law of Inertia, which states: "A body at rest will remain at rest until 8:45 p.m. the night before the science fair project is due, at which point the body will come rushing to the body's parents, who are already in their pajamas, and shout, 'I JUST REMEMBERED THE SCIENCE FAIR IS TOMORROW AND WE GOTTA GO TO THE STORE RIGHT NOW!'"”
“Right from the start my parents had left me to fend for myself. Apparently unaware that I was a kid, they invariably treated me like an adult, perhaps because they themselves were no spring chickens.”