Believing everything she read In the daily news, (No in-between to choose) She thought that only One side won, Not that BOTH Might lose.

A dog gets lonesome just like a human. He wants to associate with other dogs, but when they take him out, the poor dog is on a leash and cannot run around.

One of the great difficulties about being a member of a minority race is that so many kindhearted, well-meaning bores gather around to help.

Lawrence has a wonderful hill in it, with a university on top and the first time I ran away from home, I ran up the hill and looked across the world: Kansas wheat fields and the Kaw River, and I wanted to go some place, too. I got a whipping for it.

How still, How strangely still The water is today, It is not good For water To be so still that way. ~ "Sea Calm

Books -where if people suffered, they suffered in beautiful language, not in monosyllables, as we did in Kansas

Yet the ivory gods, And the ebony gods, And the gods of diamond-jade, Are only silly puppet gods That people themselves Have made.-