#row

Don't try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it. ↗

— Russell Baker

#children #grow #grow up #like #make

Like all young reporters - brilliant or hopelessly incompetent - I dreamed of the glamorous life of the foreign correspondent: prowling Vienna in a Burberry trench coat, speaking a dozen languages to dangerous women, narrowly escaping Sardinian bandits - the usual stuff that newspaper dreams are made of. ↗

— Russell Baker

#brilliant #coat #correspondent #dangerous #dozen

What the New Yorker calls home would seem like a couple of closets to most Americans, yet he manages not only to live there but also to grow trees and cockroaches right on the premises. ↗

— Russell Baker

#calls #closets #cockroaches #couple #grow

There is a growing literature about the multitude of journalism's problems, but most of it is concerned with the editorial side of the business, possibly because most people competent to write about journalism are not comfortable writing about finance. ↗

— Russell Baker

#because #business #comfortable #competent #concerned

I always wished I had a chance to meet an NFL player or even a college player when I was growing up in Los Angeles. ↗

— Stephen Baker

#angeles #chance #college #even #growing

When looking at the evidence of feeding on large prey, you can see every size tooth from hatchling to adult in one spot. The babies may have been fed in the nest until they were full grown, like in eagles and hawks. ↗

— Robert T. Bakker

#babies #been #eagles #every #evidence

Another cause of change, one less noticeable but fundamental, is the modern growth of population closely connected with scientific and medical discoveries. It is interesting that the United Nations has set up a special Commission to study this question. ↗

— Emily Greene Balch

#cause #change #closely #commission #connected

Doing these parts is not fun. It's challenging, but no fun. It's creepy. I would rather play the guy that throws the touchdown pass and gets carried off the field. ↗

— Alec Baldwin

#challenging #creepy #doing #field #fun

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

#battle #begin #does #end #growing

Science is a field which grows continuously with ever expanding frontiers. ↗

— John Bardeen

#ever #expanding #field #frontiers #grows