quotes about children growing up

When I saw others straining toward God, I did not understand it, for though I may have had him less than they did, there was no one blocking the way between him and me, and I could reach his heart easily. It is up to him, after all, to have us, our part consists of almost solely in letting him grasp us. ~Rainer Maria Rilke, Rilke and Benvenuta: An Intimate Correspondence



People that pay for things never complain. It's the guy you give something to that you can't please. ~Will Rogers



Have yourself a merry little Christmas, make the Yuletide gay. ~Ralph Blane



Chi Wen Tzu always thought three times before taking action. Twice would have been quite enough. ~Confucius, Analects



Sometimes it's just a short swim from the shipwreck of your life to the island paradise of your dreams - assuming you don't drown in the metaphor. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



There is nothing so well known as that we should not expect something for nothing - but we all do and call it Hope. ~Edgar Howe



In the real world, the right thing never happens in the right place and the right time. It is the job of journalists and historians to make it appear that it has. ~Mark Twain



These greens are so fast I have to hold my putter over the ball and hit it with the shadow. ~Sam Snead



Sanity is very rare: every man almost, and every woman, has a dash of madness. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



Art is your emotions flowing in a river of imagination. ~Devin, Los Cerros Middle School, 1999



Sometimes, in a moral struggle, we discover the right thing to do - just as, on some cold day long ago, we discovered mittens pinned to our coat sleeve. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Aphorist: someone who formulates aphorisms.



Brains are an asset, if you hide them. ~Mae West



We understand nature by resisting it. ~Gaston Bachelard, La Formation de l'esprit scientifique, 1938



I still have a full deck; I just shuffle slower now. ~Author Unknown



History is but the record of the public and official acts of human beings. It is our object, therefore, to humanize our history and deal with people past and present; people who ate and possibly drank; people who were born, flourished and died; not grave tragedians, posing perpetually for their photographs. ~Bill Nye, History of the United States



It's better to look at the sky than live there. Such an empty place; so vague. Just a country where the thunder goes and things disappear. ~Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany's, 1958, spoken by the character Holly Golightly



Wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weights you down. ~Toni Morrison



There is something in sickness that breaks down the pride of manhood. ~Charles Dickens



Edible, adj.: Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm. ~Ambrose Bierce