The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness
~quote about Missing You by Norman Cousins
Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep
~quotes on For a Friend by Dinah Craik
Adoption is when a child grew in its mommy's heart instead of her tummy
~sayings on Baby by Author Unknown
Be glad that you're greedy; the national economy would collapse if you weren't.
~quotations on Consumerism by Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
To those with ears to hear, libraries are really very noisy places. On their shelves we hear the captured voices of the centuries-old conversation that makes up our civilization.
~funny kid quotes by Timothy Healy
Thanksgiving is the holiday of peace, the celebration of work and the simple life... a true folk-festival that speaks the poetry of the turn of the seasons, the beauty of seedtime and harvest, the ripe product of the year - and the deep, deep connection o
~saying about kid by Ray Stannard Baker (David Grayson)
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he knows that every day is Doomsday.
~quote about Carpe Diem by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Just because you're miserable doesn't mean you can't enjoy your life.
~quotes on Attitude by Annette Goodheart
Bulldogs are adorable, with faces like toads that have been sat on.
~sayings on Dogs by Colette
Why doesn't the fellow who says, I'm no speechmaker, let it go at that instead of giving a demonstration?
~quotations on Speeches by Kin Hubbard
Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.
~funny kid quotes by Franz Kafka
To hear many religious people talk, one would think God created the torso, head, legs and arms, but the devil slapped on the genitals.
~saying about kid by Don Schrader
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
~quote about Perspective by Abraham Maslow
Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
~quotes on Patriotism by Guy de Maupassant
I would rather trust a woman's instinct than a man's reason.
~sayings on Intuition by Stanley Baldwin
Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers
~quotations on Success by Anthony Robbins
He looks the whole world in the face for he owes not any man.
~funny kid quotes by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Love me and the world is mine.
~saying about kid by David Reed
We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people.
~quote about Integrity by Martin Luther King, Jr.
Are we not like two volumes of one book?
~quotes on I Love You by Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
Life without sex might be safer but it would be unbearably dull. It is the sex instinct which makes women seem beautiful, which they are once in a blue moon, and men seem wise and brave, which they never are at all. Throttle it, denaturalize it, take it away, and human existence would be reduced to the prosaic, laborious, boresome, imbecile level of life in an anthill.
~sayings on Sex by Henry Louis Mencken
You have to wake up a virgin each morning.
~quotations on Living by Jean-Louis Barrault
A perfectly healthy sentence, it is true, is extremely rare. For the most part we miss the hue and fragrance of the thought; as if we could be satisfied with the dews of the morning or evening without their colors, or the heavens without their azure.
~funny kid quotes by Henry David Thoreau
We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education
~saying about kid by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
There's a saying among prospectors: Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find.
~quote about Attitude by Robert Flaherty
Heart attacks... God's revenge for eating his little animal friends.
~quotes on Vegetarianism by Author Unknown
A lot of fellows nowadays have a B.A., M.D., or Ph.D. Unfortunately, they don't have a J.O.B.
~sayings on College by Fats Domino
There are always too many Democratic congressmen, too many Republican congressmen, and never enough U.S. congressmen.
~quotations on Politics by Author Unknown
This is the sort of bloody nonsense up with which I will not put.
~funny kid quotes by Attributed to Winston Churchill, rejecting the rule against ending a sentence with a preposition, c.
The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.
~saying about kid by Henry Ford
Wherever you go, go with all your heart
~quote about Graduation by Confucius
As long as you keep getting born, it's alright to die some times
~quotes on Adversity by Orson Scott Card
As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.
~sayings on Love by William Shakespeare
Nobody can do for little children what grandparents doGrandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children
~quotations on Grandparents Day by Alex Haley
There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail.
~funny kid quotes by Logan Pearsall Smith, Life and Human Nature, Afterthoughts, 1931
[I]t must be emphasized that nonviolent resistance is not a method for cowards; it does resistIf one uses this method because he is afraid or merely because he lacks the instruments of violence, he is not truly nonviolentThis is why Gandhi often said that
~saying about kid by Martin Luther King, Jr., Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story, 1958
He that wants money, means, and content is without three good friends.
~quote about Money by William Shakespeare
Democracy is necessitated by the fact that all men are sinners; it is made possible by the fact that we know it.
~quotes on Living by D. Elton Trueblood
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