"People who matter don't count, and people who count don't matter."

"If you're gonna stay out with the big boys, you gotta get up with the big boys."

"There's no such thing as a free lunch"


My Dad



"My big ones are eating my little ones."

"If you keep playing with/picking at that it will fall off."


and I believe these are from My Mom


Thank you!

It's funny (or ironic?), but I a few days after posting this my Dad and I had a heated (yet civil) discussion about the choice to do violence to another person. Under our violence conversation was of course the issue of the righteousness and glorification of war, the current one and others, but seeing as how we were out in the carport on thanksgiving night, Mom decided the convo needed to be cut short. But part of what he was saying was that there is not only the choice to do violence (i.e., drop the bombs) but also the choice to receive the violence -- to be in the place where the bombs will be dropped... Does this have merit? Or is it rationalization to assuage guilt?