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He Said, She Said
A Few of My Favorite Quotes
On Liberty:
Let every nation know, whether it wishes
us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship,
support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and success of liberty.
-John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)
I think you should defend to the death their
right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats.
-Woody Allen (Born 1935) , on the KKK
Man is free, but not if he does not believe
it.
-Giacamo Girlamo Cassanova de Seingalt
One man with courage is a majority.
-Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power
corrupts absolutely.
-Lord Acton (1834-1902)
The natural progress of things is for liberty
to yield and government to gain ground.
-Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
The price of liberty is eternal vigilance.
-Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
When a man assumes a public trust, he should
consider himself as public property.
-Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) , 1807
Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery,
I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
-Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
On Character:
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but
if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
-Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
The shadow is what we think of it; the tree
is the real thing.
-Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
Character may be manifested in the great
moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-Phillip Brooks
On Truths and Advice:
No man is good enough to govern another
man without that other's consent.
-Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
Whatever you are, be a good one.
-Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
You can fool all the people some of the
time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people
all the time.
-Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
You have to do your own growing no matter
how tall your grandfather was.
-Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
Always do right; this will gratify some
people and astonish the rest.
-Mark Twain (1835-1910)
If A equals success, then the formula is:
A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut.
-Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
If you're going through hell, keep going.
-Winston Churchill, Sir (1874-1965)
Keep away from people who try to belittle
your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel
that you, too, can become great.
-Mark Twain (1835-1910)
Always do what you are afraid to do.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
Not everything that is faced can be changed,
but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-James Baldwin
The greatest mistake you can make in life
is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-Ellen Hubbard
Do what you can, with what you have, where
you are.
-Theodore Roosevelt
The only way to discover the limits of the
possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
-Arthur C. Clarke
Never, never, never give up.
-Winston Churchill, Sir (1874-1965)
On Success:
Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later work belongs.There are a million ways to lose a work
day, but not even a single way to get one back.
-Tom DeMarco and Timothy Lister
Whether you think that you can, or that
you can't, you are usually right.
-Henry Ford (1863-1947)
Every day I get up and look through the
Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.
-Robert Orben
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every
opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
-Winston Churchill, Sir (1874-1965)
As for courage and will - we cannot measure
how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient
to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-Andre Norton
Never give up, for that is just the place
and time that the tide will turn.
-Harriet Beecher Stowe
In a modern day take on Virginia's age old question to the Chicago Sun, CNN traveled to Finland- North of Helsinki- to interview Santa Claus. And what did Santa have to say about the Christmas season? Surprisingly, he said the same thing as my father- "It is nice that children are able to receive so much on Christmas, but what they really need is to be given love and security. If we give them this, than ALL the world will benefit." So there you have it. Santa's words of Wisdom, reported by CNN. From our family to yours, we wish you all the love of family, the warmth of friendships, and the richness of traditions.
A Mother's Day Poem...
This is for the mothers who have sat up all
night with sick toddlers in their arms,
wiping up barf laced with Oscar Mayer wieners and cherry Kool-Aid saying, "It's
okay honey, Mommy's here."
Who have sat in rocking chairs for hours on end soothing crying babies who can't
be comforted.
This is for all the mothers who show up at work with spit-up in their hair and
milk stains on their blouses and diapers in their purse.
For all the mothers who run carpools and make cookies and sew Halloween costumes.
And all the mothers who DON'T.
This is for the mothers who gave birth to babies they'll never see. And the
mothers who took those babies and gave them homes
This is for the mothers whose priceless art collections are hanging on their
refrigerator doors.
And for all the mothers who froze their buns on metal bleachers at football
or soccer games instead of watching from the warmth of their cars.
So that when their kids asked, "Did you see me, Mom?" they could say,
"Of course, I wouldn't have missed it for the world," and mean it.
This is for all the mothers who yell at their kids in the grocery store and
swat them in despair when they stomp their feet and scream for ice cream
before dinner. And for all the mothers who count to ten instead, but realize
how child abuse happens.
This is for all the mothers who sat down with their children and explained all
about making babies.
And for all the (grand)mothers who wanted to, but just couldn't find the words.
This is for all the mothers who go hungry, so their children can eat.
For all the mothers who read a story twice a night for a year. And then read
it again. "Just one more time."
This is for all the mothers who taught their children to tie their shoelaces
before they started school.
And for all the mothers who opted for Velcro instead.
This is for all the mothers who teach their sons to cook and their daughters
to sink a jump shot.
This is for every mother whose head turns automatically when a little voice
calls "Mom?" in a crowd,
even though they know their own offspring are at home -- or even away at college
~or have their own families.
This is for all the mothers who sent their kids to school with stomach aches,
assuring them they'd be just FINE once they got there,
only to get calls from the school nurse an hour later asking them to please
pick them up. Right away.
This is for mothers whose children have gone astray, who can't find the words
to reach them.
For all the mothers who bite their lips until they bleed when their 14 year
olds dye their hair green.
For all the mothers of the victims of school shootings, and the mothers of those
who did the shooting.
For the mothers of the survivors, and the mothers who sat in front of their
TVs in horror,
hugging their child who just came home from school, safely.
This is for all the mothers who taught their children to be peaceful, and now
pray they come home safely from a war.
What makes a good Mother anyway? Is it patience? Compassion? Broad hips?
The ability to nurse a baby, cook dinner, and sew a button on a shirt, all at
the same time?
Or is it in her heart?
Is it the ache you feel when you watch your son or daughter disappear down the
street, walking to school alone for the very first time?
The jolt that takes you from sleep to dread, from bed to crib at 2 A.M. to put
your hand on the back of a sleeping baby?
The panic, years later, that comes again at 2 A.M. when you just want to hear
their key in the door and know they are safe again in your home?
Or the need to flee from wherever you are and hug your child when you hear news
of a fire, a car accident, a child dying?
The emotions of motherhood are universal and so our thoughts are for young mothers
stumbling through diaper changes and sleep deprivation...
And mature mothers learning to let go.
For working mothers and stay-at-home mothers. Single mothers and married mothers.
Mothers with money, mothers without.
This is for you all. For all of us...