“When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I …
“A man has more character in his face at forty than at twenty–he has suffered longer.” – Mae West
“If you’ve never been hated by your child, you’ve never been a parent.” – Bette Davis
“Instead of a national curriculum for education, what is really needed is an individual curriculum for every child.” – Charles Handy
“It’s not easy to juggle a pregnant wife and a troubled child, but somehow I managed to fit in eight hours of TV a day.” …
“All I care is that my family, and my loved ones, understand me. Or that they understand me to a degree-I don’t understand me very …
“One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one’s trouble does not make it any better.” – Cesare Pavese
“The best training any parent can give a child is to train the child to train himself.” – A. P. Gouthey
“There are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child. There are seven million.” – Walt Streightiff
“Marriage is a great institution. No family should be without it.” – Mae West
“There is a brilliant child locked inside every student” – Marva Collins
“The serpent, the king, the tiger, the stinging wasp, the small child, the dog owned by other people, and the fool: these seven ought not …
“When we believe that God is Father, we also believe that such a father’s hand will never cause his child a needless tear. We may …
“To be rich in admiration and free from envy, to rejoice greatly in the good of others, to love with such generosity of heart that …
“Courage is the discovery that you may not win, and trying when you know you can lose.” – Tom Krause
“God’s great cosmic joke on the human race was requiring that men and women live together in marriage” – Mark Twain
“The creative adult is the child who has survived.” – Ursula K. LeGuin
“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not …
“Women don’t want to hear what you think. Women want to hear what they think — in a deeper voice.” – Bill Cosby
“As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“What he had not learned, however, was this: to find contentment in himself and his own life” – Hermann Hesse
“Browning! Since Chaucer was alive and hale, / No man hath walked along our roads with step / So active, so inquiring eye, or tongue/ …
“Don’t be afraid to expand yourself, to step out of your comfort zone. That’s where the joy and the adventure lie.” – Herbie Hancock
“The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it’s indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, …
“Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember” – Seneca
“We change, whether we like it or not” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“When we are no longer able to change a situation – we are challenged to change ourselves.” – Viktor Frankl
“Character isn’t something you were born with and can’t change, like your fingerprints. It’s something you weren’t born with and must take responsibility for forming.” …
“We are not defined by our trials, but by how we face them. We are all afraid; bravery is a choice, that though you may …
“‘Bart Bucks’ are not legal tender” – Nancy Cartwright
“Ninety-nine hundredths or, possibly, nine hundred and ninety-nine thousandths of our activity is purely automatic and habitual, from our rising in the morning to our …
“To keep your marriage brimming, With love in the loving cup, Whenever you’re wrong, admit it; Whenever you’re right, shut up” – Ogden Nash
“I cannot believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war and no one will win the next.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“You cannot build character and courage by taking away man’s initiative and independence.” – Abraham Lincoln
“Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness – great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.” – Jim …
“The fact that political ideologies are tangible realities is not a proof of their vitally necessary character. The bubonic plague was an extraordinarily powerful social …
“Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious.” – George Bernard Shaw
“Put your talent into your work, but your genius into your life” – Oscar Wilde