drake quotes about life

Do not Christians and Heathens, Jews and Gentiles, poets and philosophers, unite in allowing the starry influences? ~Walter Scott



Half the promises people say were never kept, were never made. ~Edgar Watson Howe



Good decisions come from experience, and experience comes from bad decisions. ~Author Unknown



What is a Professor of Poetry? How can poetry be professed? ~W.H. Auden



The trouble with talking too fast is you may say something you haven't thought of yet. ~Ann Landers



When a man says to me, "I have the intensest love of nature," at once I know that he has none. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journals, 1857



It's a cruel season that makes you get ready for bed while it's light out. ~Bill Watterson



Man watches his history on the screen with apathy and an occasional passing flicker of horror or indignation. ~Conor Cruise O'Brien



Any astronomer can predict with absolute accuracy just where every star in the universe will be at 11.30 tonight. He can make no such prediction about his teenage daughter. ~James T. Adams



War is fear cloaked in courage. ~William Westmoreland



Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us. ~Henrik Tikkanen



There is a time early in life when there seem to be countless reasons for happiness, and then you discover your mom is making them up. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children. ~Charles R. Swindoll, The Strong Family



Nowadays you envy a manic-depressive. Half the time he's happy, the other half he's right. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



How is one to live a moral and compassionate existence when one finds darkness not only in one's culture but within oneself? There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions. You continue to live them out, making your life a worthy expression of leaning into the light. ~Barry Lopez, Arctic Dreams How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them. ~Samuel Taylor Coleridge



In cyberspace, the First Amendment is a local ordinance. ~John Perry Barlow



Skiing is a dance, and the mountain always leads. ~Author Unknown



If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need. ~Cicero



The beauty is that people often come here for the stretch, and leave with a lot more. ~Liza Ciano, co-owner and co-director of Yoga Vermont, yogavermont.com



Charity sees the need, not the cause. ~German Proverb