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No one does children's stories like Maurice Sendak.

Maurice Sendak

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Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Future Yesterday

Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Peace

We have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society.

Lyndon B. Johnson

If future generations are to remember us with gratitude rather than contempt, we must leave them more than the miracles of technology. We must leave them a glimpse of the world as it was in the beginning, not just after we got through with it.

Lyndon B. Johnson - signing the Wilderness Act on Sept 3, 1964

When the Oakies left Oklahoma and moved to California, it raised the I.Q. of both states.

Will Rogers

Oklahoma

Here in Oklahoma, there's not a whole lot to do. So, a lot of your focus and attention is on basketball, which is a blessing in disguise. And this is where I wanted to end up, so I'm very happy I'm here.

Josh Giddey - February 2022

Oklahoma Oklahoma City Thunder

Sheldon: "Texas, Oklahoma... what's the difference?"
Meemaw: "Hey, now, I think you might want to crack open your psychology textbook 'cause that there is crazy talk."

Sheldons Großmutter "Meemaw" in Young Sheldon - Season 2 Episode 9

Texas Oklahoma

Do you know why Oklahoma's state slogan is "Oklahoma is OK"?
Because they can't spell "mediocre".

Oklahoma

"Why did Oklahoma raise the minimum drinking age to 25?"
"They wanted to keep alcohol out of the high schools!"

Oklahoma

Governor is not the position to have in Oklahoma. It is the head coach of Oklahoma or Oklahoma State or Tulsa.

J. C. Watts

Oklahoma

Something called 'the Oklahoma Standard' became known throughout the world. It means resilience in the face of adversity. It means a strength and compassion that will not be defeated.

Brad Henry

Oklahoma

They say money can't buy happiness, but it can buy a flight to Oklahoma - and that's pretty much the same thing.

Oklahoma

And the wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws.

Maurice Sendak in Where the Wild Things Are

Children do live in fantasy and reality; they move back and forth very easily in a way we no longer remember how to do.

Maurice Sendak

Children & Childhood Imagination

Once a little boy sent me a charming card with a little drawing on it. I loved it. I answer all my children's letters -- sometimes very hastily -- but this one I lingered over. I sent him a card and I drew a picture of a Wild Thing on it. I wrote, 'Dear Jim: I loved your card." Then I got a letter back from his mother and she said, 'Jim loved your card so much he ate it." That to me was one of the highest compliments I've ever received. He didn't care that it was an original Maurice Sendak drawing or anything. He saw it, he loved it, he ate it.

Maurice Sendak

Please don't go. We'll eat you up. We love you so.

Maurice Sendak in Where the Wild Things Are

There must be more to life than having everything.

Maurice Sendak

Life Greed

There is no such thing as fantasy unrelated to reality.

Maurice Sendak

Imagination Reality

Then from far away across the world he smelled good things to eat, so he gave up being king of the wild things.

Maurice Sendak in Where the Wild Things Are

I cry a lot because I miss people. They die and I can't stop them. They leave me and I love them more.

Maurice Sendak

Grief & Condolence Day of the Dead

You cannot write for children. They're much too complicated. You can only write books that are of interest to them.

Maurice Sendak

Children & Childhood Books Writing

Happiness is not always the best way to be happy.

Judith in Where the Wild Things Are

Happiness

And Max, the king of all wild things, was lonely and wanted to be where someone loved him best of all.

Maurice Sendak in Where the Wild Things Are

Some a-hole leaks it online and I'm like, you know, looking at the guy in the mirror brushing my teeth, "Dude, what have you done? This could be punishable by law!" But the internet forced the studio to say, "We're gonna make this movie", and 24 hours later, that movie had a green light.

Ryan Reynolds - September 2025

Deadpool

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