poems for moms birthday

In America everybody is of opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards. ~Bertrand Russell, Unpopular Essays, 1950



Pro football is like nuclear warfare. There are no winners, only survivors. ~Frank Gifford



I was half in love with her by the time we sat down. That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty, even if they're not much to look at, or even if they're sort of stupid, you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are. ~J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, 1945



Plant carrots in January and you'll never have to eat carrots. ~Author Unknown



He who eats alone chokes alone. ~Proverb



To find someone who will love you for no reason, and to shower that person with reasons, that is the ultimate happiness. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



If you count all your assets, you always show a profit. ~Robert Quillen



What's done to children, they will do to society. ~Karl Menninger



I am what the librarians have made me with a little assistance from a professor of Greek and a few poets. ~Bernard Keble Sandwell



Volunteers don't get paid, not because they're worthless, but because they're priceless. ~Sherry Anderson (Thanks, Kathy)



You will always be your child's favorite toy. ~Vicki Lansky, Trouble-Free Travel with Children, 1991



Wanting to change, to improve, a person's situation means offering him, for difficulties in which he is practiced and experienced, other difficulties that will find him perhaps even more bewildered. ~Rainer Maria Rilke



There are three good reasons to be a teacher - June, July, and August. ~Author Unknown



A man who has no office to go to - I don't care who he is - is a trial of which you can have no conception. ~George Bernard Shaw



Volunteers don't get paid, not because they're worthless, but because they're priceless. ~Sherry Anderson (Thanks, Kathy)



Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue. ~Adam Clarke



We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever. ~Carl Sagan



Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before. ~Jacob A. Riis Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time. ~Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn



There is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, Letters and Social Aims



There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness and death. ~Fran Lebowitz