Adele Roblin > Adele's Quotes

“Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.”
― Alan Watts

“This left me alone to solve the coffee problem - a sort of catch-22, as in order to think straight I need caffeine, and in order to make that happen I need to think straight.”
― David Sedaris, When You Are Engulfed in Flames

“High school taught me a valuable lesson about glasses: Don't wear them. Contacts have always seemed like too much work, so instead I just squint, figuring that if something is more than ten feet away, I'll just deal with it when I get there.”
― David Sedaris, When You Are Engulfed in Flames

“The Greeks had invented democracy, built the Acropolis and called it a day.”
― David Sedaris, Naked

“Across town, over in the East Village, the graffiti was calling for the rich to be eaten, imprisoned, or taxed out of existence. Though it sometimes seemed like a nice idea, I hoped the revolution would not take place during my lifetime. I didn't want the rich to go away until I could at least briefly join their ranks. ”
― David Sedaris, Me Talk Pretty One Day

“At the touch of this divine light, the mountains seemed to kindle to a rapt, religious consciousness, and stood hushed like devout worshippers waiting to be blessed.”
― John Muir

“Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy.”
― Robert A. Heinlein

“Children are made readers on the laps of their parents.”
― Emilie Buchwald

“Nothing you do for children is ever wasted.”
― Garrison Keillor, Leaving Home

“If you done it, it ain't bragging.”
― Walt Whitman

“Now, Voyager, sail thou forth, to seek and find."


”
― walt whitman

“Only themselves understand themselves and the like of themselves,
As souls only understand souls.”
― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass