Mamas, don’t let your babies grow up to be cowboys/don’t let ‘em pick guitars and drive them old trucks/make ‘em be doctors and lawyers and such/mamas, don’t let your babies grow up to be cowboys/they never stay home and they’re always alone/even with someone they love.

John Adams: “I must study politics and war, that my sons may have the liberty to study mathematics and philosophy, natural history and naval architecture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, tapestry, and porcelain.”