Quotes Page 5



"We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today."
-Stacia Tauscher
"All this will not be finished in the first one hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first thousand days, nor in the life of this administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin."
-John F. Kennedy 1917
"In the great department store of life, baseball is the toy department."
-Unknown
"Our hopes are but memories reversed."
-Unknown
"A misty morning does not signify a cloudy day."
-Proverb
"If it were not for hopes, the heart would break."
-Thomas Fuller
“Remember when the days were long
And rolled beneath a deep blue sky
Didn't have a care in the world
With mommy and daddy standin' by
But "happily ever after" fails
And we've been poisoned by these fairy tales"
-Don Henley "End of the innocence"
"People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost."
-H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Sign at zoo: "Please don't stand or climb on the fences. If you fall in, the animals might eat you, which could make them sick. Thank you!"
"Pride can stand a thousaund trials, the strong will never fall.. But watching stars without you - my soul cried."
-Desiree "Kissing You"
“It’s just like things keep getting smaller and smaller and I can’t reach out and touch them.”
“It’s called Goodbye”
—“Jen” and “Jack” on Dawson’s Creek
"My dear boy, if God had intended for us to walk, he wouldn't have invented roller skates."
-Willy Wonka
"If your friend is already dead, and being eaten by vultures, I think it's okay to feed some bits of your friend to one of the vultures, to teach him to do some tricks. But ONLY if you're serious about adopting the vulture."
-Deep Thoughts by Jack Handey(Saturday Night Live)
"I was walking home one night and a guy hammering on a roof called me a paranoid little weirdo. In morse code."
-Emo Phillips
"Looking back on the memory of
The dance we shared 'neath the stars above
For a moment all the world was right
How could I have known that you'd ever say goodbye
And now I'm glad I didn't know
The way it all would end, the way it all would go
Our lives are better left to chance, I could have missed the pain
But I'd have had to miss the dance."
-Garth Brooks, "The Dance"
"Just because somebody doesn't love you the way you want them to, doesn't mean they don't love you with all they have"
-Unknown
"I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain."
-Unknown
"The more things change, the more they stay the same. I'm not sure who the first person was who said that. Probably Shakespeare. Or maybe Sting. But at the moment, it's the sentence that best explains my tragic flaw, my inability to change. I don't think I'm alone in this. The more I get to know other people, the more I realize it's kind of everyone's flaw. Staying exactly the same for as long as possible, standing perfectly still... It feels safer somehow. And if you are suffering, at least the pain is familiar. Because if you took that leap of faith, went outside the box, did something unexpected... Who knows what other pain might be out there, waiting for you. Chances are it could be even worse. So you maintain the status quo. Choose the road already traveled and it doesn't seem that bad. Not as far as flaws go. You're not a drug addict. You're not killing anyone... Except maybe yourself a little. When we finally do change, I don't think it happens like an earthquake or an explosion, where all of a sudden we're like this different person. I think it's smaller than that. The kind of thing most people wouldn't even notice unless they looked at us really close. Which, thank God, they never do. But you notice it. Inside you that change feels like a world of difference. And you hope this is it. This is the person you get to be forever... that you'll never have to change again."
-Unknown
“Promise me you’ll never forget me because if I thought you would I’d never leave.”
-Winnie the Pooh
"The people who contributed to who I am, they are with me wherever I go. And as history gets rewritten in small ways with each passing day, my love for them only grows. Because the truth is, it was the best of times. Mistakes were made, hearts were broken, harsh lessons learned, but all of that has receded into fond memory now. How does it happen? Why are we so quick to forget the bad and romanticize the good? Maybe it's because we need to believe that the time we spent together actually meant something, that we were there for each other in a time of our lives that defined us all, a time in our lives that we will never forget."
-Unknown
“The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live.”
-Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
“I’m not a teacher: only a fellow traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead- ahead of myself as well as of you.”
-George Bernard Shaw
“If you promise not to believe everything your child says happens at this school, I’ll promise not to believe everything he says happens at home.” -Anonymous
“In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.” -Fran Lebowitz
“Always behave like a duck- keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil underneath.”
-Lord Barbizon
“A professor is one who talks in someone else’s sleep.”
-W.H. Auden
“Ah, but a man’s reach should exceed his grasp or what’s a heaven for?”
-Robert Browning
"The most important thing growing up in life is to learn how to play."
--Jim Carrey
"I've been driving for an hour just talking to the moon"
--Michelle Branch "Breathe"
"What humbugs we are, who pretend to live for Beauty, and never see the Dawn!"
--Logan Pearsall Smith
“I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.”
--Michelangelo
“If you're being run out of town, get in front of the crowd and make it look like a parade.”
--Anon.
"If you know you're going to look back on today and laugh, you might as well start laughing now."
--Anon.
May the road rise to meet you.
May the wind be always at your back.
May the sun shine warm upon your face.
And rains fall soft upon your fields.
And until we meet again,
May God hold you in the hollow of His hand.
Though nothing can bring back the hour
Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower;
We will grieve not, rather find
Strength in what remains behind.
When he shall die, Take him and cut him out in little stars.
And he will make the face of heaven so fine,
That all the world will be in love with night,
And pay no worship to the garish sun!
--William Shakespeare
"Just keep putting your love out there, and somewhere, it will be received."
"When you hide the dandelion in shame, the dandelion-lover walks by without a glance."
“How mutable are our feelings, and how strange is that clinging love we have of life even in the excess of misery!”
-—Dr. Frankenstein in Frankenstein
"In the eighth inning," Lou Piniella said, "when the fans were really reveling in the stands, the one thought that did come to my mind, strangely enough, is 'Boy, this city has suffered and tonight these people are letting out a lot of emotions.' And I felt good for them in that way ... and that's a strange thought to come from a manager who's getting his ass kicked."
-- Lou Piniella playing the Yankees after September 11th.
"Dont worry, they all became angels"
--a four year old when he saw what happened on Sept 11th on tv
"I wanna be the girl you point to and tell your boys 'that's her'."
"Sometimes all you wish for... is for someone to wish for you..."
"Never regret what once made you smile."
"But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough, can you see the stars."
"When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace."
--Jimi Hendrix
"We are the music makers and we are the dreamers of dreams..."
--Arthur O'Shaughnessy
"Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives."
--William Dement
"A dream is an answer to a question we haven't yet learned how to ask."
--Fox Mulder
"One disadvantage of being a hog is that at any moment some blundering fool may try to make a silk purse out of your wife's ear."
--J.B. Morton
"Whenever you read a good book, it's like the author is right there, in the room talking to you, which is why I don't like to read good books."
--Jack Handy Deep Thoughts
"We shall find peace. We shall hear angels. We shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds."
--Anton Chekov
"Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness."
--Maya Angelou
"A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing."
--Clive James
"Comedy is tragedy plus time."
--Carol Burnett
"She smokes a pack a day-wait that's me but anyway, she doesn't care a thing about that hey, she thinks i'm beautiful"
--Train
Quotes from the Iraqi information minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf (aka "Baghdad Bob"):
"Sept. 11 is an anniversary of the future, a day enshrining the worst of human impulses -- and the best. A day, therefore, that puts the choice before us. How are we going to live now? We are on the earth for the briefest of interludes. Thinking in particular of all those who died in New York, Washington, and Pennsylvania, let us honor them by building the earth, instead of destroying it. Let us make peace, instead of war."
-–The Boston Globe
"And on September 12th [2001]..."
"You may say I’m a dreamer, but I'm not the only one, I hope some day you'll join us, And the world will live as one."
--John Lennon "Imagine"
"A window breaks, down a long, dark street And a siren wails in the night But I'm alright, 'cause I have you here with me And I can almost see, through the dark there is light"
--Chantal Kreviazuk "Feels Like Home"
"You'll never touch These things that I hold The skin of my emotions Lies beneath my own You'll never feel The heat of this soul My fever burns me deeper Than I've ever shown To you "
--Fiona Apple "Never is a Promise"
“There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don’t know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don’t know we don’t know.”
-- Donald Rumsfeld
"You have big things. You know big things. But you don't look into each other's eyes. And you're hungry for quietness."
--Jerome Lovell (Liam Neeson) translating Nell (Jodie Foster) to the court
"People look for beauty even in the midst of ugliness. ‘It rains on my city,’ said an eight-year-old I know, ‘but I see rainbows in the puddles.’"
--Savage Inequalities By Jonathan Kozol
fo' shizzle my nizzle (fo shizz-ul my nizz-ul) fo shizzle ma nizzle" is a bastardization of "fo' sheezy mah neezy" which is a bastardization of "for sure mah nigga" which is a bastdardization of "I concur with you whole heartedly my African american brother"