'Daddy, how many whoppers are there in those tall trees?' After waking up in the car while driving through Calaveras Big Trees and hearing daddy say, 'Wow, that's a whopper of a tree.'

“If we call these foothills, can we call the little trees 'foot trees?''' (While driving in the foothills.)

"That's the store that we need to go to and open the door and put our money in." (At age 3. While driving by the new Toys 'R' Us.)

I hope they get here soon. The kids are biting at the chomp.

Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.