Building Appreciator Gifts

Great Urban Sprawl

"Trust me kiddo, even donkey's years fly by way too fast..."

"Of course I'm aware of reality! I mean, we met in St. Thomas, got engaged in Austria, announced it in London and now we're getting married in the Flatbush Jewish Center!"

'My - You've matured, my dear.'

"The keep saying unrestored and what a nice PATINA, Ted. A better-sounding word for old tarnished stuff would be SCRINCH or SKRITCH, don't you think, eh, Ted?"

'What if I promise not to look?'

'Aluminum siding will be used to cut costs in restoration at the U.S. Capitol.'

"Don't you sometimes worry that if they do give us our stuff back we'll lose some of the sense of grievance that's so crucial to our cultural identity?"

The Stat-ewe of Liberty.

Baby car seat for a Native American.

"Your antique gold watch didn't float."

Mt. Tushmore

"So this is the lovely view of trees..."

"Good night, Al. We still haven't found it."

"I knew you was mad when you tried to sell me to them "American Pickers" fellers."

Old Tortoise

"Careful now. It's fragile."

Painting the Sistine Chapel. 1508. 1509. 1510. 1511. 1512. It looks great, Michelangelo, but there's one thing I don't understand. Why didn't you just paint it in the regular way and then mount it on the ceiling?

"I've finally got my head together."

'It's so beautiful, yet fragile. Safe, yet vulnerable. More precious than any star in the heavens.'

London Gin Company Limited - By Appointment to Queen Mother

'According to these statistics you'll probably outlive me...'

'FQ...?'

"I don't know who on Facebook told you, but I can assure you Stradivarius didn't make accordions!"

Perpetual Motion.

"This is not what I meant when I said you should try to live in the present."

'I'm very proud of what he achieved during his life.'

"At the 2008 Olympics, Henry Cejudo became the youngest American to win a wrestling gold medal. His mother taught him that desire can trump despair. And then she taught him how to escape her chicken-wing armlock."

'Minimalism is fine in design, but not in work attendance."

Michelangelo's David

"Enjoy your youth. Soon you'll be an old cynic like me with nothing worth barking at."

"Nice moat."

Any old Gold - 'There's a man ahead of his time'

"Oh no! Set decorator and special effects wizard Emilio Ruiz del Rio, who worked on 'Dr. Zhivago,' 'Lawrence of Arabia' and 'Pan's Labyrinth' has died!"

'I believe this is one of the original sets'