birthday quotes for mom from daughter

I'm struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity. The transfer is not paying off. Sure, muscles are unreliable, but they represent several million years of accumulated finesse. ~Brian Eno, Wired, January 1999



A lie has speed, but truth has endurance. ~Edgar J. Mohn



Why get married? For human beings, marriage is such an unnatural state. If you want monogamy, it has been said, you should marry a swan. ~Quentin Crisp, "The Art of Celibacy"



The flag of the United States has not been created by rhetorical sentences in declarations of independence and in bills of rights. It has been created by the experience of a great people, and nothing is written upon it that has not been written by their life. It is the embodiment, not of a sentiment, but of a history. ~Woodrow Wilson



Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience. ~Author Unknown



Cleanliness is next to impossible. ~Author Unknown



On the one hand, shopping is dependable: You can do it alone, if you lose your heart to something that is wrong for you, you can return it; it's instant gratification and yet something you buy may well last for years. ~Judith Krantz



History is never above the melee. It is not allowed to be neutral, but forced to enlist in every army. ~Allan Nevins, The Gateway to History



O jealousy! thou magnifier of trifles. ~Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller



To a small child, the perfect granddad is unafraid of big dogs and fierce storms but absolutely terrified of the word "boo." ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life: he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



The negative is the equivalent of the composer's score, and the print the performance. ~Ansel Adams The Negro is the child of two cultures - Africa and America. The problem is that in the search for wholeness all too many Negroes seek to embrace only one side of their natures. ~Martin Luther King, Jr., Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?, 1967



No place is boring, if you've had a good night's sleep and have a pocket full of unexposed film. ~Robert Adams, Darkroom & Creative Camera Techniques, May 1995



Sometimes I think and other times I am. ~Paul Valery, Variete: Cantiques spirituels, 1924



The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary. ~Attributed to both Vidal Sassoon and Donald Kendall



Individual possession is the great entering wedge, which has split society into eight hundred million fragments.... It virtually, practically, and theoretically denies the brotherhood of man. ~Hiram Stafford, The Liberator, 8 September 1844



Sometimes when I'm angry I have the right to be angry, but that doesn't give me the right to be cruel. ~Author Unknown



Hunger is the best sauce in the world. ~Cervantes



Like all valuable commodities, truth is often counterfeited. ~James Cardinal Gibbons



Whether it's the best of times or the worst of times, it's the only time we've got. ~Art Buchwald