Famous quotes containing the words funniest, living and/or american:
“Being a parent is such serious business that we dare not take it too seriously. Children are inherently funny. So are parents. We all are at our funniest when we are desperately struggling to appear to be in control of a new situation.”
—Lawrence Kutner (20th century)
“The Lady: a fluty voice, sensible shoes, a melancholy sense of living by rules few still remember.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“The American ideal, after all, is that everyone should be as much alike as possible.”
—James Baldwin (1924–1987)