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• On this morning in August when I was 13, my mother sent us out pick tomatoes.
  Back in April I'd have killed for a fresh tomato, but in August they are no more rare or wonderful than rocks....
• The citizens of the United States of America have a right to applaud themselves for having given to mankind examples of an enlarged and liberal policy--a policy worthy of imitation.
  All possess alike liberty of conscience and immunities of citizenship....
• if the church put in half the time on covetousness that it does on lust, this would be a better world.
  -- Garrison Keillor, Lake Wobegon Day...
• if the church put in half the time on covetousness that it does on lust, this would be a better world.
  -- Garrison Keillor, "Lake Wobegon Day...
• If the church put in half the time on covetousness that it does on lust, this would be a better world.
  -- Garrison Keillor, "Lake Wobegon Day...
• Lake Wobegon takes its name from an Indian phrase that means either 'Here we are!
  ' or 'we sat all day in the rain waiting for you.' -- Garrison Keillor, "Lake Wobegon Day...
• America was discovered by Amerigo Vespucci and was named after him, until people got tired of living in a place called "Vespuccia" and changed its name to "America".
  -- Mike Harding, "The Armchair Anarchist's Almanac...