Logo
Quote by Russell Baker
Children rarely want to know who their parents were before they we

Children rarely want to know who their parents were before they were parents, and when age finally stirs their curiosity, there is no parent left to tell them. – Russell Baker

Other quotes by Russell Baker

Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories those that dont work, those that break down and those that get lost. – Russell Baker

Category:
Science
Author
Russell Baker
Read Quote

A day spent praising the earth and lamenting mans pollutionist history makes you feel like a superior, sensitive soul. – Russell Baker

Category:
History
Author
Russell Baker
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Age
category

The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age. – Orson Welles

Category:
Age

What this country needs is radicals who will stay that way regardless of the creeping years. – John Fischer

Category:
Age

The heart never grows better by age I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old one, and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older. – Lord Chesterfield

Category:
Age

The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified. – Bob Wells

Category:
Age

Random Quotes

The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity. – Ayn Rand

Category:
best

The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasnt the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility. – John Lennon

Category:
Twentieth Century

The Christian faith makes it possible for us nobly to accept that which cannot be changed, and to meet disappointments and sorrow with an inner poise, and to absorb the most intense pain without abandoning our sense of hope. – Martin Luther King,Jr., Strength to Love, 1963

Category:
Martin Luther King Day

I have discovered in 20 years of moving around a ballpark, that the knowledge of the game is usually in inverse proportion to the price of the seats. – Bill Veeck

Category:
Knowledge