Larry Conley quotes

I wish I could anticipate some of the stories and lies that will be told. It's going to be great to get everyone together so we can tell all of the families, all of the wives and children, just how good we were because they never got to see us play.
-- Larry Conley

#Children #Lying #Play

From ev'ry single window, I see your face. But when I reach a window there's an empty space.
-- Larry Conley

#Home #Space #Faces

I don't know how long a child will remain utterly static in front of the television, but my guess is that it could be well into their thirties.

There is no wonder more supernatural and divine in the life of a believer than the mystery and ministry of prayer...the hand of the child touching the arm of the Father and moving the wheel of the universe.

Chum was a British boy's weekly which, at the end of the year was bound into a single huge book; and the following Christmas parents bought it as Christmas presents for male children.

The music had to be rooted, and yet had to branch out,like the wild imagination of a child.

I walk up a dune to a beach and look out to sea, but it's 100km away. The ships lie askew in their dry beds, at anchor for ever. Today is my son's birthday. Thousands of miles from here, his healthy lungs are blowing out candles. I should be there but I'm here with another boy, who puts his face close to mine and laughs. I smile back but realise he can't see it, because I'm wearing an antiseptic muzzles to protect me from his breath.

Television is a constant stream of fact, opinions, lies, moral dilemmas, plots: an infinitely complex and sophisticated torrent of information. How could it not make you cleverer? The only people who ever thought television rotted the brain and made kids dumb were those with a vested interest in other ways of learning, or those who were intellectually insecure, usually about books.

All knots that lovers tie Are tied to sever. Here shall your sweetheart lie, Untrue for ever.

If you want something to play with go find yourself a toy, baby, my time is too expensive and I'm not a little boy.

If you are serious, don't play with my heart, it makes me furious.

Helen Mirren and Meryl Streep can play with the boys but there just aren't that many tour-de-force roles out there for women,