Sophistication called for a variety of talents and attitudes, but the minimum requirement was being in New York. Not all New Yorkers achieved it, but nobody elsewhere had a prayer. Barbara Holland More Quotes by Barbara Holland More Quotes From Barbara Holland Anyone who has raised more than one child knows full well that kids turn out the way they turn out - astonishingly, for the most part, and usually quite unlike their siblings, even their twins, raised under the same flawed rooftree. Little we have done or said, or left undone and unsaid, seems to have made much mark. It's hubris to suppose ourselves so influential; a casual remark on the playground is as likely to change their lives as any dedicated campaign of ours. They come with much of their own software already in place, waiting, and none of the keys we press will override it. Barbara Holland sibling kids children We don't get enough pampering. If we were once the only child of an adoring mother, we developed a taste for it; if not, we developed a thirst for it. Barbara Holland pampering mother children It's curious that throughout our history together, with no apparent effort, people have been able to think of the cat simultaneously as the guardian spirit of the hearth and home, and as the emblem of freedom, independence, and rootlessness. Barbara Holland cat home heart a woman may be called a wife and mother for most of her life, while a man is called a husband and father only at his funeral. Barbara Holland husband mother father If a quick glance back over world history shows us anything, it shows us that war was one of our most universal joys from our earliest beginnings, savored at every possible opportunity and even some quite incomprehensible ones. Barbara Holland opportunity joy war True ownership of anything requires time. Barbara Holland ownership Success in war was the only success that counted; failure was a disgrace to be wiped out only by starting another war and winning it. Barbara Holland starting winning war Smiting enemies has always been so admired that, unlike medicine or archaeology, it entitled its successful practitioners to become kings, emperors, and presidents. Barbara Holland medicine successful kings The United States government, in figuring our gross national product, defines 'durable goods' as anything that will last three years. Barbara Holland united-states government years To extract the fullest flavor of our drinking house, we needed to spend serious evening time there, slowly coming to know the bartender and the regulars, their joys and sorrows. Barbara Holland drinking house joy The nostalgic notion of the family orchards is lovely - all that wholesome fruit for our forebears to sit on the back steps biting into - but basically we were growing it to drink. Barbara Holland biting lovely growing The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition claims that a moderate beer drinker - whatever that means - swallows 11 percent of his dietary protein needs, 12 percent of the carbohydrates, 9 percent of essential phosphorus, 7 percent of his riboflavin, and 5 percent of niacin. Should he go on to immoderate beer drinking, he becomes a walking vitamin pill. Barbara Holland drinking beer mean Our Revolution was born and raised in taverns. Barbara Holland taverns born revolution My friends and I were all deathly afraid of our fathers, which was right and proper and even biblically ordained. Fathers were angry; it was their job. Barbara Holland my-friends jobs father In the taverns all was amiable and easy, but the coffeehouses were cauldrons of edgy malcontents. Barbara Holland cauldrons taverns easy In the metropolitan haunts of the highly sophisticated, the cocktail is no longer an instrument of friendship but a competitive fashion statement, or one-upmanship. Barbara Holland cocktails sophisticated fashion In a proper pub everyone there is potentially, if not a lifelong friend, at least someone to lure into an argument about foreign policy or the Red Sox. Barbara Holland argument pubs red If we have a decent sort of cat to begin with, and have always treated it courteously, and aren't cursed with meddling, bullying natures, it's a pleasure to let it do as it pleases. With children, this would be wicked and irresponsible, so raising children involves a lot of effort and friction. They need to be taught how to tie their shoes and multiply fractions, they need to be punished for pocketing candy in the grocery store, they need to be washed and combed and forced to clean up their rooms and say please and thank you. A cat is our relief and our reward. Barbara Holland bullying cat children Single life should be experimental in nature and open to accidents. Some accidents are happy ones. Barbara Holland accidents single-life should War was ... the chief or maybe the only source of patriotism, and many a politician, from prehistory up to this morning, unified a discontented citizenry by pointing out a national danger and declaring war on it. Barbara Holland politician morning war
