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Past Quotes of the Week:

2008-2009

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.
Maya Angelou

Every morning is a fresh beginning. Every day is the world made new. Today is a new day. Today is my world made new. I have lived all my life up to this moment, to come to this day. This moment--this day--is as good as any moment in all eternity. I shall make of this day--each moment of this day--a heaven on earth. This is my day of opportunity.

--Dan Custer

2007-2008

Why can't we get all the people together in the world that we really like and then just stay together?  I guess that wouldn't work.  Someone would leave.  Someone always leaves.  Then we would have to say good-bye.  I hate good-byes.  I know what I need.  I need more hellos.  ~Charles M. Schulz

I love my mother as the trees love water and sunshine - she helps me grow, prosper, and reach great heights.  ~Adabella Radici

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

--Marcus Aurelius (121-180)

The good neighbor looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human and, therefore, brothers.

--Martin Luther King, Jr.

You gotta be a man to play baseball for a living but you gotta have a lot of little boy in you, too. 

-- Roy Campanella

Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.

--Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)

"There are only two seasons:  Winter and Baseball.

--Bill Veeck

A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.
John F. Kennedy

Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.

--William Jennings Bryan

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.

--Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)

....And so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal."

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.

I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

I have a dream today!....

Martin Luther King, Jr.

"I Have a Dream"

delivered 28 August 1963, at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.C.

Christmas, children, is not a date.  It is a state of mind.  

~Mary Ellen Chase

He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree.  

~Roy L. Smith

The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
--Bono (from the rock group U2)

Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, can not long retain it.

--Abraham Lincoln

If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.
Harry S. Truman

And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

--Abraham Lincoln

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

--Thomas Jefferson

The point of the journey is not to arrive.

-Neil Peart  from the song "Prime Mover" by Rush   

When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package.  

--John Ruskin (1819-1900)I

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.

Mark Twain

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

--- Albert Einstein

 Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.

--Muhammad Ali

If you don't know where you are going, you will wind up somewhere else.

--Yogi Berra

Failure to learn is punished by boredom.    --Brian Swimme

I do not feel obliged to believe that that same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forego their use.

--Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)

Winning isn't everything.  It's the only thing. 

-- Vince Lombardi

2006-2007

Humankind has not woven the web of life.  We are but one thread within it.  Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves.  All things are bound together.  All things connect.      ~Chief Seattle, 1855

A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.

--Oscar Wilde

We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.  ~Native American Proverb

We do not know one millionth of one percent about anything.

--Thomas Alva Edison

Doubt isn't the opposite of faith; it is an element of faith.

--Paul Tillich

And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.

--John F. Kennedy

If we encounter a man of great intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.

--Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storms.

- O. S. Marden

The vilest deeds like poison weeds/Bloom well in prison air/

It is only what is good in Man/That wastes and withers there.

--Oscar Wilde

True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.

--Charles Caleb Colton (1780-1832)

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

--Robert Browning

I do not feel obliged to believe that that same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forego their use.

--Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)

I expect to pass through life but once.  If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again.

--William Penn (1644-1718)

When you read a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than you did before.

--Clifton Fadiman

I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.
Yogi Berra

If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.

--Anatole France

If I have been able to see farther than others, it was because I stood on the shoulders of giants.

--Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727)

"It is our choices ... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities."

--Albus Dumbledore   (Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, J.K. Rowlings)

Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling.

-- Margaret Lee Runbeck

I don't know who my grandfather was;  I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.

--Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)

The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes.

--Frank Lloyd Wright

Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten.

--B. F. Skinner

America needs fewer men obsessed with erecting fences of hate, suspicion and name calling.

--William Arthur Ward

May you live all the days of your life.

--Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)

A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

--Mark Twain

Oh, to be only half as wonderful as my child thought I was when he was small, and only half as stupid as my teen-ager now thinks I am.   

--Rebecca Richards

There are 10 kinds of people ... those who understand binary, and those who don't.

-- Anonymous

The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.

--Chinese Proverb

I dislike arguments of any kind.  They are always vulgar, and often convincing.

--Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

It takes a great man to make a good listener.

--Sir Arthur Helps (1813-1875)

Our ideals, laws, and customs should be based on the proposition that each generation in turn becomes the custodian rather than the absolute owner of our resources--and each generation has the obligation to pass this inheritance on to the future.

-- Alden Whitman

I would rather men should ask why no statue has been erected in my honor, than why one has.

--Marcus Porcius Cato (234-149 B.C.)

Before I judge my neighbor, let me walk a mile in his moccasins.

--Sioux Proverb

Wise sayings often fall on barren ground; but a kind word is never thrown away.  

-- Sir Arthur Helps (1813-1875)

Power always has to be kept in check; power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous.

--William Proxmire

"It is better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt."

--Mark Twain

"This is like deja vu all over again."

--Yogi Berra

I expect to pass through life but once.  If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again.

-- William Penn

A good problem statement often includes : (a) what is known, (b) what is unknown, and (c) what is sought.

--  Edward Hodnett

I studied the lives of great men and famous women, and I found that the men and women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand, with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm and hard work.

--  Harry S. Truman

Our liberty depends on freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.

--Thomas Jefferson

A man who dares to waste an hour of time has not discovered the value of life.

-Charles Darwin (1809-1882)

Doubt isn't the opposite of faith.  It is an element of faith.

-Paul Tillich 

During my 87 years I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions.  But none of them have done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.

- Bernard M. Baruch 

Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.

- Walter Lippmann

Always do right.  This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

- Mark Twain

Be not afraid of greatness : Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon them.

- William Shakespeare 

Some day I would like to stand on the moon, look down through a quarter of a million miles of space and say, "There certainly is a beautiful Earth out tonight."

-Lieutenant Colonel William H. Rankin

Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend's forehead.

-Chinese Proverb

Courage is grace under pressure.  

--Earnest Hemingway

Don't talk unless you can improve the silence.

--Vermont proverb

I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. 

--Thomas Jefferson (1743-1823)

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