Favourite Quotes and Quotations

[Haunted]

Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible and achieves the impossible.
~ Anonymous

[Becks19]

The language of friendship is not words, but meanings.
- Henry David Thoreau

The pen is the tongue of the mind.
- Miguel de Cervantes

Does it afflict you to find your books wearing out? I mean literally .. . the mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all.
- William Dean Howells

[fljoe0]

"All these people talk so eloquently about getting back to good old-fashioned values… and I say let’s get back to the good old-fashioned First Amendment of the good old-fashioned Constitution of the United States — and to hell with the censors! Give me knowledge or give me death!"

- Kurt Vonnegut

[MadamMack]

"Pa, I cain't move them damn hogs!"

[MadamMack]

This is by me:

It's not our world, we're just renting it.

[Haunted]

Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers.
And once you find laughter, no matter how painful your situation might be, you can survive it.
~ Bill Cosby

[Becks19]

If I had one wish for my children, it would be that each of them would reach for goals that have meaning for them as individuals.
- Lillian Carter

No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.
- Emma Goldman

By giving children lots of affection, you can help fill them with love and acceptance of themselves. Then that's what they will have to give away.
- Wayne Dyer

[blunthead]

We will be known forever by the tracks we leave - Native American Proverb

[Haunted]

No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.
- Emma Goldman

We will be known forever by the tracks we leave - Native American Proverb

Both very good ones to start the week with, THANKS!!

[omm poppa mow mow]

"to rule forever," continues the chinaman, later, "it is necessary only to create, among the people one would rule, what we call...bad history. nothing will produce bad history more directly nor brutally, than drawing a line, in particular a right line, the very shape of contempt, through the midst of a people,--to create thus a distinction betwist 'em.--'tis the first stroke.--all else will follow as if predestin'd, unto war and devastation.'

~Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon