Thursday, November 29, 2007

Malina Iza Famous Quotes. Updated 6/24

My kids say things that are profound (or simply funny). It is time to start to archive some of those before we forget ....

- Iza in the car "Daddy, you know what, poptars are close to my heart"
- Cacada - bug making lots of noise every 17 years - was making noise in our front yard tree. On one Saturday, the noise stopped. Malina said "Maybe they are here only on school days"?
- In the car on the way home from school, Iza is asking her sister for candy [they were sharing and Iza already ate hers] to which Malina responds "Iza, I can't give you any candy, my hands our sore"
- "Iza, it is not about winning, not about having fun, it is about trying longer ..."
- "Daddy, Do you know why I like Lexington? Because I can understand what people say here"
- To her dallies while playing ... "Anybody who died long time ago, raise your hand ..."
- On airport in Chicago ... "I think I am allergic to walking"
- "Sister, we can't go to the Eiffel tower because there are lots of strangers there and they are going to be there for a long time ..."
- "Don't go there sister ... the darkness is going to get you"
- In Poland in the car, during eating vanilla ice creams, "Sister, you can't say 'vanilla' very good because you spoke too much Polish ..."
- "I can't speak French, but I can sign it very well ... " (Happy Birthday in French)
- "Daddy, go to work and take some money, we need to buy the beautiful princess ... " (in famous store where they cried as if I was killing them because I refused to buy overprices princess)
- Iza falls what seems like all the time and most of the time she laughs about it, but this one time she felt and Maya was close to her. Maya may have touched her with her tail. Iza started to cry and said "Mommy, Maya was trying to kill me ..."
- I am not really good on closing my eyes ... (in response to repeating attempts to make Malina sleep)

Monday, November 26, 2007

Quotes I like. Ungoing ... (Polski)

Because "Shaminisms" are way overrated ...
Polska Wersja - http://gaworskipolak.blogspot.com/2008/02/cytaty-jakie-lubie.html
  • I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious. - Albert Einstein
  • Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence, he is just using his memory. - Leonardo da Vinci, 1452-1519.
  • What luck for the rulers, that men do not think. - Adolf Hitler
  • God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.- Albert Einstein
  • He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed. - Albert Einstein
  • May the conscience and the common sense of the peoples be awakened, so that we may reach a new stage in the life of nations, where people will look back on war as an incomprehensible aberration of their forefathers! - Albert Einstein
  • How can it be that mathematics, being after all a product of human thought which is independent of experience, is so admirably appropriate to the objects of reality? Is human reason, then, without experience, merely by taking thought, able to fathom the properties of real things - Albert Einstein
  • The bigotry of the nonbeliever is for me nearly as funny as the bigotry of the believer - Albert Einstein
  • Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind. - Albert Einstein
  • "I celebrated Thanksgiving in an old-fashioned way. I invited everyone in my neighborhood to my house, we had an enormous feast, and then I killed them and took their land." - Jon Steward
  • Life is a long lesson in humility. - James M. Barrie
  • "Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned." Oliver Wendell Holmes
  • Religious war is like children fighting over who has the strongest imaginary friend - www.cafepress.com
  • "Timelines are dangerous. What we need is a 'horizon'- a withdrawal strategy named after something that no matter how long you head towards it, you never quite reach it. " 08/08/2008 Jon Steward
"No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it is not the same river and he is not the same man." Heraclitus