“Every snapshot collector has obsessions. Some only collect photos of cars. Others like World War II, or babies, or old-timey girls in old-timey swimsuits. I happen to collect the weird stuff: photos that make the hair on the back of your neck stand up a little. The uncanny.” WorldLittlesWarHappensGirlStuffCarHairBabyObsessionWar Of The WorldsNecksWorld War IiWorld War ICollectorsSnapshotsUncannyWeird StuffSwimsuits Author:Ransom Riggs
“There are many things children accept as "grown-up things" over when they have no control and for which they have no responsibility--for instance, weddings, having babies, buying houses, and driving cars. Parents who are separating really need to help their children put divorce on that grown-up list, so that children do not see themselves as the cause of their parents' decision to live apart.” NeedsChildrenHelpingHouseCausesParentDecisionResponsibilityAcceptingCarBabyDivorceListsDrivingInstanceBuyingSeparatingHaving A BabyDriving CarsBuying A House Author:Fred Rogers
“A child is nothing like a racing car. . . . Souping up babies doesn't work that way. The child is what she is. There is a certainirreducible if elusive core. Pushing, pulling, stretching, and shrinking will not really change it. There may be spectacular interim results. The baby may say the alphabet before she walks, master two-times or even ten-times table at three. In the long run, however, this forced precocity tends to be irrelevant. . . . Whatever gains there are become unimportant. The losses can be irrevocable.” IfsWayMayChildrenLongTwoRunningThreeLossWalksResultsCarMastersBabyTenGainsTablesCorePushingRacingLong RunsPullingIrrelevantSpectacularStretchingElusiveUnimportantAlphabetShrinkingRace CarIrrevocableChild DevelopmentInterim Author:Stella Chess
“I'm part of the consumer culture. I was part of the baby boom generation. I have a car when I shouldn't, a couple of computers; I can't be anti-consumerist in that sense.” I CanCultureGenerationsCarBabyCoupleComputerConsumersConsumer CultureBaby Boom Author:John Elkington
“[It is nice] to explore someone's will to survive, the ferocity of loyalty, how far you would go to protect the ones you love... I believe women have more power than we give ourselves credit for... We have been known to lift cars off of babies! That's incredible.” GivingBelieveHas BeensI BelieveKnownNiceCarBabyProtectIncrediblesCreditLoyaltyLiftsFerocityWill To Survive Author:Katie Aselton
“As for music and my place in it, maybe things are changing a little bit. I know this: a good song is deeper than a tattoo. It'll remind you of the car you're driving and the girl you're going around with and the streets you're cruising. It's better than a photo album. A song is a tattoo that you never lose. 'Ice, Ice Baby,' man, you'll remember that when you're 90.” KnowsMenLittlesRememberSongGirlBitsLosesStreetsCarBabyLittle BitAlbumsDeeperDrivingIceTattoo Author:Vanilla Ice
“I never leave a dog alone in a car on a hot day. I make sure it's with an elderly person holding a baby.” PersonsDogCarBabyHotElderlyHot Days Author:Dane Cook
“How far would you go for someone you love ? I heard this story, about this woman, who actually lifted a car off of her baby. 'Course I would have said, Dude! Back up. But, wasn't my kid. When I was born, if I'd have known all the stuff my dad was going to do for me, I'd have crawled right back in.” IfsSaidStoriesKidsCoursesStuffBornKnownHeardCarBabyDadMy DadOne You LoveSomeone You Love Author:Christopher Titus
“Song writing is about the male-female relationship. Yes, there are songs of, of brotherhood and politics but very rarely do we write about computers or, there are car songs, cars are cool. But even in the car songs, it's, ah, usually gets down to me and my baby and my car.” WritingSongCarBabyComputerFemaleMalesBrotherhoodMy BabyMale Female Author:Jeff Barry
“It's hard to send your baby off on a plane without you, though that's less reasonable, because sending him off in a car is statistically a bigger risk.” HardRiskCarBabyBiggerPlanesReasonableWithout You Author:Carolyn Hax
“For a long time, people assumed I was gay, so when I got married the press were all a bit shocked and made a big deal of it - and ditto when I had children. I felt very much under the microscope with paps outside the house taking pictures of me getting the baby out of the car, it was excruciating. I remember getting her out of the car seat and thinking 'oh God I'm going to drop her and they're going to take a picture'. I was so nervous. Those sorts of things are really hard.” PeopleThinkingChildrenLongMadeHardBigsRememberHouseFeltBitsDealsCarBabyGayMarriedLong TimePressesNervousSeatsShockedBig DealMicroscopesTaking Pictures Author:Jo Brand
“"Baby, you know?" my mother once said to me. "I think you're the greatest woman I've ever met - and I'm not including my mother or Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt in that." She said, "You are very intelligent and you're very kind, and those two qualities do not often go together." Then she went across the street and got in her car, and I went the other way down to the streetcar. I thought, "Suppose she's right. She's intelligent - and she's too mean to lie." You see, a parent has the chance - and maybe the responsibility - to liberate her child. And my mom had liberated me when I was 17.” ThinkingKnowsWayKindMeanChildrenSaidTwoTogetherLyingMotherParentChanceQualityResponsibilityStreetsCarBabyMomMetsIntelligentIncludingMy MomLiberatedEleanor Author:Maya Angelou
“I do sing in the car. I actually sing Britney Spears songs in the car - me and a close friend of mine. She lives in West Palm and I live in Miami, and when we're going back and forth to see each other, we sing: 'Oh, Baby Baby.' We sing all these 1990s songs. We're like two 14-year-old kids just having a good time.” YearsTwoKidsSongCarMinesBabyWestGood TimesPalmsBack And ForthHaving A Good TimeMiamiSpearsClose Friends Author:Kelly Rowland
“Wish on everything. Pink cars are good, especially old ones. And stars of course, first stars and shooting stars. Planes will do if they are the first light in the sky and look like stars. Wish in tunnels, holding your breath and lifting your feet off the ground. Birthday candles. Baby teeth.” IfsFirstsLooksLightCoursesWishStarsAttitudeFeetSkyCarBabyBreathsTeethShootingPlanesCandleLiftingTunnelsShooting StarFeet Off The GroundBaby Teeth Author:Francesca Lia Block
“I wondered how long it took for a baby to become yours, for familiarity to set in. Maybe as long as it took a new car to lose that scent, or a brand-new house to gather dust. Maybe that was the process more commonly described as bonding: the act of learning your child as well as you know yourself.” KnowsWellsChildrenLongHouseProcessParentLosesCarBabyParentingDustBrandsYour ChildrenScentKnow YourselfFamiliarityBrand NewBondingNew Car Book:Handle with Care: A Novel Source: Handle with Care: A Novel
“I have this love for Mattie. It was formed in me as he himself was formed. It has his shape, you might say. He fits it. He fits into it as he fits into his clothes. He will always fit into it. When he gets out of the car and I meet him and hug him, there he is, him himself, something of my very own forever, and my love for him goes all around him just as it did when he was a baby and a little boy and a young man grown.” MenLittlesMightYoungBoysForeverCarBabyFitShapesClothesYoung ManHugLittle Boys Author:Wendell Berry