famous quotes about life and death

You know it's summertime at Candlestick when the fog rolls in, the wind kicks up, and you see the center fielder slicing open a caribou to survive the ninth inning. ~Bob Sarlette



If we accept and acquiesce in the face of discrimination, we accept the responsibility ourselves and allow those responsible to salve their conscience by believing that they have our acceptance and concurrence. We should, therefore, protest openly everything... that smacks of discrimination or slander. ~Mary McLeod Bethune



In every work of genius, we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Self Reliance," Essays, 1841



A group becomes a team when each member is sure enough of himself and his contribution to praise the skills of the others. ~Norman Shidle



What are the proper proportions of a maxim? A minimum of sound to a maximum of sense. ~Mark Twain



The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind. ~G.K. Chesterton



We are never prepared for what we expect. ~James A. Michener, Caravans



When fate arrives the physician becomes a fool. ~Arabic Proverb



There are two kinds of light - the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures. ~James Thurber



No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not. ~H.L. Mencken No matter how hard you hug your money, it never hugs back. ~Quoted in P.S. I Love You, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.



Talking is like playing on the harp; there is as much in laying the hands on the strings to stop their vibration as in twanging them to bring out their music. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes



I have seen my kid struggle into the kitchen in the morning with outfits that need only one accessory: an empty gin bottle. ~Erma Bombeck



Grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened, but we fear all that possibly may happen. ~Pliny the Younger



I am running in this race because of what Dr. King called "the fierce urgency of now." Because I believe that there's such a thing as being too late. And that hour is almost upon us. ~Barack Obama, Iowa Jefferson-Jackson Dinner, 2007 Nov 10



It behooves a father to be blameless if he expects his child to be. ~Homer



And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow. ~G.K. Chesterton



There is no gravity. The earth sucks. ~Graffito



Joel Siegel: "Yes.... Gilda Radner... said this in her book. What cancer does is, it forces you to focus, to prioritize, and you learn what's important. I mean, I don't sweat the small stuff. I used to get angry at cab drivers. It's not worth it.... And when somebody says you have cancer, you realize it's all small stuff. And what Gilda said is, if it weren't for the downside, everyone would want to have it. But there is a downside."



A watched child never learns. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



The world needs anger. The world often continues to allow evil because it isn't angry enough. ~Bede Jarrett