| Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.
- Leaving Home (1987)
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| I am a world-class weenie when it comes to letting people stick needles into me. My subconscious mind firmly believes that if God had wanted us to have direct access to our bloodstreams, He would have equipped our skin with small, clearly marked doors.
- Dave Barry
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| What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful that the garment with which it is clothed? - Michelangelo Buonarroti, 1474 - 1564
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| What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector? The taxidermist takes only your skin - Mark Twain, 1835 - 1910
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| We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of our accents, of our opinions, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of our naked skins. - George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman
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| One day our descendants will think it incredible that we paid so much attention to things like the amount of melanin in our skin or the shape of our eyes or our gender instead of the unique identities of each of us as complex human beings - Franklin Thomas
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| Consult not your fears, but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do - Pope John XXIII, theologian
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| We all wear masks, and the time comes when we cannot remove them without removing some of our own skin - Andre Berthiaume
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| Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light - Albert Schweitzer, missionary physician
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| My theory on housework is, if the item doesnt multiply, smell, catch on fire, or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one cares. Why should you? - Erma Louise Bombeck, 1927 - 1996
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| Persons grouped around a fire or candle for warmth or light are less able to pursue independent thoughts, or even tasks, than people supplied with electric light. In the same way, the social and educational patterns latent in automation are those of self- employment and artistic autonomy. - Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media, 1964
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| The Princess Borghese, Bonapartes sister, who was no saint, sat to [the artist Antonio] Canova as a reclining Venus, and being asked if she did not feel a little uncomfortable, replied, "No. There was a fire in the room - William Hazlitt, 1778 - 1830
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| The fire at the manufacturing plant was due to friction caused by a large inventory rubbing up against an Insurance policy.
- Old Southern saying
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| Indians are plenty smart. We catch small wood. Build small fire. Stand close and stay warm all over. White men not so smart. They catch big wood. Build big fire. Stand far away, burn face and freeze ass. - Henry Seely
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| Whenever our neighbors house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little water on our own - Edmund Burke, 1728 - 1797
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