“Sucking your thumb without a blanket is like eating a cone without ice cream!”

“Can't you see me as king of the Hereford ranchers, Lucy?""Oh, I can see you, all right... I can see you riding out on your beautiful palomino checking the herd... There you sit, silhouetted against the evening sky... Sucking your thumb and holding that stupid blanket!”

“The rain washed away my pitcher's mound... I'm a pitcher without a mound... I'm a lost soul... I'm like a politician out of office.""Or a sailor without an ocean...""Or a boy without a girl...”

“It's the big kids who get everything! They push you out of line at the show... They grab all the cake and ice cream at parties...""I guess that's just the way life is...""In the animal kingdom, we call it, 'survival of the fattest'!”

“Life is like an ice cream cone, you have to lick it one day at a time. ”

“Dear Sweetheart, Without you my days are endless. Days seem like weeks... Weeks feel like months... Months like years... Years like centuries... Centuries like... You get the idea.”

“Don't sit there watching TV without your glasses! Do you want to ruin your eyes?!""My opthalmologist says that not wearing glasses cannot hurt the eyes even if those glasses are badly needed for adequate vision.""What does your opthalmologist think of the foreign situation?”