children quotes for parents

If horse racing is the sport of kings, then drag racing must be the sport of queens. ~Bert R. Sugar



How is one to live a moral and compassionate existence when one finds darkness not only in one's culture but within oneself? There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions. You continue to live them out, making your life a worthy expression of leaning into the light. ~Barry Lopez, Arctic Dreams How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them. ~Samuel Taylor Coleridge



His speeches left the impression of an army of pompous phrases moving over the landscape in search of an idea. ~Author Unknown



We turn not older with years, but newer every day. ~Emily Dickinson



I love America, and I love American women. But there is one thing that deeply shocks me - American closets. I cannot believe one can dress well when you have so much. ~Andree Putman



With humans it's abortion, but with chickens it's an omelet. ~Attributed to George Carlin



My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph. ~Richard Avedon



To put the world right in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must first put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must first cultivate our personal life; we must first set our hearts right. ~Confucius



If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. ~Dalai Lama



Don't compromise yourself. You're all you've got. ~Janis Joplin



Thanksgiving is possible only for those who take time to remember; no one can give thanks who has a short memory. ~Author Unknown



I love the place; the magnificent books; I require books as I require air. ~Sholem Asch



The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it. ~Author Unknown



But it is a cold, lifeless business when you go to the shops to buy something, which does not represent your life and talent, but a goldsmith's. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



Most people want to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch. ~Robert Orben



I haven't lost my mind; I have a tape back-up somewhere. ~Author Unknown



The man ignorant of mathematics will be increasingly limited in his grasp of the main forces of civilization. ~John Kemeny



I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning. ~Andy Warhol



If in the after life there is not music, we will have to import it. ~Domenico Cieri Estrada



As long as there are cold and nakedness in the land around you, so long can there be no question at all but that splendor of dress is a crime. ~John Ruskin