It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up. —Muhammad Ali More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Boys who spent their weekends making banana-nut muffins did not, as a rule, excel in the art of hand-to-hand combat. —David Sedaris More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
How a society channels male aggression is one of the greatest questions as to whether that society will survive. That's why I am not against violence in the media; I am against the glorification of immoral violence. —Dennis Prager More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Though the boys throw stones at frogs in sport, yet the frogs do not die in sport but in earnest. —Bion of Borysthenes More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
After watching a performance of his play Peter Pan with his five-year-old godson, J.M. Barrie asked the boy what he had liked best. "What I think I liked best," the boy replied, "was tearing up the program and dropping the bits on people's heads. —Lapham's Quarterly More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A boy is, of all wild beasts, the most difficult to manage. —Plato More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be all right. —Alice Thomas Ellis More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Death does not wait to see if things are done or not done. —The Kularnava Tantra More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If I am ever stuck on a respirator or a life-support system, I definitely want to be unplugged — but not until I get down to a size eight. —Henriette Mantel More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it. —Michel de Montaigne More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
To die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Death selected voluntarily, death at the right time, consummated with brightness and cheerfulness in the midst of children and witnesses: so that an actual leave-taking is possible where he is yet present who takes his leave. —Friedrich Nietzsche More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death. —Erik Erikson More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When I was young, I was extremely scared of dying. But now I think it a very, very wise arrangement. It's like a light that is extinguished. Not very much to make a fuss about. —Ingmar Bergman More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Old age is the night of life, and night the old age of the day; yet is the night full of magnificence, and, for many, more brilliant than the day. —Madame Swetchine More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
What reconciles me to my own death more than anything else is the image of a place: a place where your bones and mine are buried, thrown, uncovered, together. They are strewn there pell-mell. One of your ribs leans against my skull. A metacarpal of my left hand lies inside your pelvis. . . . It is strange that this image of our proximity, concerning as it does mere phosphate of calcium, should bestow a sense of peace. Yet it does. With you I can imagine a place where to be phosphate of calcium is enough. —John Berger More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email