Come September, children return to school, grownups to work, and the brain to the head. — Roger Rosenblatt Brain Copy Share Image
A five-year old is in a pretty good position to assess who is beautiful and who is not. Removed from the confusions… — Roger Rosenblatt Beautiful Copy Share Image
The God I do believe in is the God who doesn't care: James Joyce's God who stands back, paring his fingernails. — Roger Rosenblatt Back Copy Share Image
Death is too much for men to bear, whereas women, who are practiced in bearing the deaths of men before their own… — Roger Rosenblatt Bears Copy Share Image
Only by moving in the direction you least trust can you be saved — Roger Rosenblatt Inspirational Copy Share Image
When you have the goods, you don't need to dress up what you're writing. — Roger Rosenblatt Dresses Copy Share Image
Uncle Scrooge preferred to let the poor die "and decrease the surplus population." Scrooge may not have had God on his side,… — Roger Rosenblatt Arithmetic Copy Share Image
“There may be no more pleasing picture in the world than that of a child peering into a book - the past… — Roger Rosenblatt Books Copy Share Image
“Why do we write? "To make suffering endurable To make evil intelligible To make justice desirable and . . . to make love possible” — Roger Rosenblatt Essay writing Copy Share Image
The Constitution is more than literature, but as literature, it is primarily a work of the imagination. It imagined a country: fantastic.… — Roger Rosenblatt Books Copy Share Image
Slum kids die slowly, their lives eroded at so languid a pace that even they would have trouble tracing the disintegration. To… — Roger Rosenblatt Bombs Copy Share Image
Death is something that happens to others, you think, until it happens to you. — Roger Rosenblatt Death Copy Share Image
Get rid of the guns. We had the Second Amendment that said you have the right to bear arms. I haven't seen… — Roger Rosenblatt Absolutes Copy Share Image
The trick in foraging for a tooth lost in coffee grounds is not to be misled by the clumps. The only way… — Roger Rosenblatt Between Copy Share Image
Friends are lights in winter; the older the friend, the brighter the light. — Roger Rosenblatt Brighter Copy Share Image
The best in art and life comes from a center - something urgent and powerful, an idea or emotion that insists on… — Roger Rosenblatt Architecture Copy Share Image
Anytime you make a person into something other than himself, you make a monster. — Roger Rosenblatt Inspirational Copy Share Image
One senses, in all autobiography, a straining toward perfection, perfection of a kind that connects the individual with a cosmic pattern which,… — Roger Rosenblatt Autobiography Copy Share Image
Remote control. Ingenious contradiction of terms. Fits like a handshake. Aims like a gun. — Roger Rosenblatt Aim Copy Share Image
Just because the person who criticizes you is an idiot doesn't make him wrong. — Roger Rosenblatt Criticize Copy Share Image
The God worth worshipping is the one who pays us the compliment of self - regulation, and we might return it by… — Roger Rosenblatt Compliment Copy Share Image
“I'm going to kill Fairy Tale Dora and my little dog too.” — Roger Rosenblatt Fairy tale Copy Share Image
