“I wasn't yawning, I was just letting some fresh air into my mouth.” (After being accused of being tired.)

As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.

'Divorce is when mommy and daddy yell at each other then they spread apart. Then they put up a 'for sale' sign in front of the house and they spread farther and farther apart until they can't come back ever again and it's very sad.' (teaching her 4-year old brother)

'When you kiss someone, your heart goes out to them, and when you're done kissing them your heart goes back in.'

'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.'