"The Final Say: Kinder, Gentler"

THE FINAL SAY: KINDER, GENTLER

by Monty Gilmer

If each man or woman could understand that every other human life is as full of sorrows, or joys, or base temptations, of heartaches and of remorse as his own . . . how much kinder, how much gentler he would be.

     WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE

I want a kinder, gentler nation.

     GEORGE BUSH

Two Quotations on Broccoli

BROCCOLI

I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little boy and my mother made me eat it. And I'm President of the United States, and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli!

     GEORGE BUSH

     on menus aboard Air Force One

     (Quoted in The New York Times on March 25, 1990)

Rejoice with broccoli for it is a good bush-of-a-face and goes nicely in the mouth.

     ANNE SEXTON

     in her book of poems The Death Notebooks (1974)

Broccoli

(Photo by Steven Lilley, 2011)