One of the most painful things in the Western States and Territories is the extinction of childhood. I have never seen any children - only debased imitations of men and women, cankered by greed and selfishness, and asserting and gaining complete independence of their parents at ten years old.


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The reality is that Israel is a multi-ethnic, multireligious society, and it makes no sense to insis...
KAI BIRD
In 1945, at the beginning of the Cold War, our leaders led us astray. We need to think of the Cold W...
KAI BIRD
One can't live with a child of Holocaust survivors without absorbing some of the same sensibilit...
KAI BIRD
Most Americans have no memory of the designs Franklin Roosevelt's New Dealers had for postwar-Am...
KAI BIRD
I've been around a while. I kinda know these things.
LARRY BIRD
But it is a black man's game, and it will be forever.
LARRY BIRD
When I was a kid, like 14 or 15, I played with the waiters from the hotel, 'cause that was the b...
LARRY BIRD
I like being by myself.
LARRY BIRD
I get homesick.
LARRY BIRD
I'm a loner.
LARRY BIRD
The best players will play. That's the way it will always be.
LARRY BIRD
While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use, he who has learned to trust...
LARRY BIRD
Once you are labeled 'the best' you want to stay up there, and you can't do it by loafin...
LARRY BIRD
I really don't like talking about money. All I can say is that the Good Lord must have wanted me...
LARRY BIRD
I don't know if I practiced more than anybody, but I sure practiced enough. I still wonder if so...
LARRY BIRD
If there was a payment to the bank due, and we needed shoes, she'd get the shoes, and then deal ...
LARRY BIRD
The one thing that always bothered me when I played in the NBA was I really got irritated when they ...
LARRY BIRD
What's better? Dogs or broomsticks? I mean will the world really ever know?
LARRY BIRD
As far as playing, I didn't care who guarded me - red, yellow, black. I just didn't want a w...
LARRY BIRD
It doesn't matter who scores the points, it's who can get the ball to the scorer.
LARRY BIRD
I wasn't real quick, and I wasn't real strong. Some guys will just take off and it's lik...
LARRY BIRD
When I was a kid, I never thought about anything. Never had to think about where I was going to scho...
LARRY BIRD
The best player I ever played with was Dennis Johnson.
LARRY BIRD
When it gets down to it, basketball is basketball.
LARRY BIRD
Push yourself again and again. Don't give an inch until the final buzzer sounds.
LARRY BIRD
In the human lung, there are millions of air foils, just like aeroplane wings, which facilitate norm...
FORREST BIRD
My daddy was a World War I pilot, and I just wanted to be able to fly like he did.
FORREST BIRD
I get paid very well and am happy with what I make, but I'm not in the super-rich bracket. I sho...
SIMON BIRD
I really don't like talking about money. All I can say is that the Good Lord must have wanted me to ...
LARRY BIRD
Leadership is getting players to believe in you. If you tell a teammate you're ready to play as toug...
LARRY BIRD
When I was young, I never wanted to leave the court until I got things exactly correct. My dream was...
LARRY BIRD
I don't know if I practiced more than anybody, but I sure practiced enough. I still wonder if somebo...
LARRY BIRD
Femininity appears to be one of those pivotal qualities that is so important no one can define it.
CAROLINE BIRD
A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into sk...
LARRY BIRD
Push yourself again and again. Don't give an inch until the final buzzer sounds.
LARRY BIRD
I always know what's happening on the court. I see a situation occur, and I respond.
LARRY BIRD
First master the fundamentals.
LARRY BIRD
Once you are labeled 'the best' you want to stay up there, and you can't do it by loafing around. I...
LARRY BIRD
I always know what's happening on the court. I see a situation occur, and I respond.
LARRY BIRD
I know the dangers and the seductions of the Middle East. It is part of my identity. I grew up among...
KAI BIRD
I've always been fascinated and stared at maps for hours as a kid. I've especially been most...
ANDREW BIRD
I've got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end...
LARRY BIRD
Melodies are just honest. They can only be what they are. Words have the capacity for deception. The...
ANDREW BIRD
Leadership is getting players to believe in you. If you tell a teammate you're ready to play as ...
LARRY BIRD
Animation is about creating the illusion of life. And you can't create it if you don't have ...
BRAD BIRD
A day off after a show with no agenda in a foreign city is about the most fertile creative situation...
ANDREW BIRD
I mean, the greatest athletes in the world are African-American.
LARRY BIRD
Learning to face reality, refusing refuge in cliches and lies, fighting to find a way out - that'...
ANTONIA BIRD
If people are asking me for clubbing tips, then they're in real trouble. My clubbing tip is neve...
SIMON BIRD
I'm definitely a centrist and feel like both parties can be absurd.
BRAD BIRD
I don't think I'll ever go back to writing songs based on my record collection. Those [first two] re...
ANDREW BIRD
You're trying to get the lyrics and melody to coexist. And sometimes you're trying to fit a square p...
ANDREW BIRD
My shows are planned and scripted only so far as it allows me to lose the sense of where I am and ge...
ANDREW BIRD
[Correlation across replicated environments] adds a whole new dimension of complexity of the environ...
ANDREW BIRD
It only takes a little change to make a SAN not work. The problems aren't noticed until the next fai...
ANDREW BIRD
You can't keep putting bodies against it. It's becoming too quick and complex. You have to automate ...
ANDREW BIRD
I got my heroes secondhand, from television and movies, to a certain extent.
BRAD BIRD
If there are similarities, it's simply because the same thoughts that occurred to other people a...
BRAD BIRD
There is something comforting about going into a practice room, putting your sheet music on a stand ...
ANDREW BIRD
That's not the part of the story that I'm interested in, anyway. The part that I'm inter...
BRAD BIRD