Black Eyed Peas - The Time (Dirty Bit)

Black Eyed Peas - The Time (Dirty Bit)

FAMILY!#

I don't care how poor a man is; if he has family, he's rich.  ~Dan Wilcox and Thad Mumford, "Identity Crisis," M*A*S*H It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons.  ~Johann Schiller The family is a haven in a heartless world.  ~Attributed to Christopher Lasch Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do.  With no relatives, no support, we've put it in an impossible situation.  ~Margaret Mead Families are like fudge - mostly sweet with a few nuts.  ~Author Unknown The thing about family disasters is that you never have to wait long before the next one puts the previous one into perspective.  ~Robert Brault,www.robertbrault.com If you don't believe in ghosts, you've never been to a family reunion.  ~Ashleigh Brilliant We all grow up with the weight of history on us.  Our ancestors dwell in the attics of our brains as they do in the spiraling chains of knowledge hidden in every cell of our bodies.  ~Shirley Abbott Family:  A social unit where the father is concerned with parking space, the children with outer space, and the mother with closet space.  ~Evan Esar A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.  ~Ogden Nash The family.  We were a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another's desserts, hiding shampoo, borrowing money, locking each other out of our rooms, inflicting pain and kissing to heal it in the same instant, loving, laughing, defending, and trying to figure out the common thread that bound us all together.  ~Erma Bombeck When you look at your life, the greatest happinesses are family happinesses.  ~Joyce Brothers In some families, please is described as the magic word.  In our house, however, it was sorry.  ~Margaret Laurence Family quarrels have a total bitterness unmatched by others.  Yet it sometimes happens that they also have a kind of tang, a pleasantness beneath the unpleasantness, based on the tacit understanding that this is not for keeps; that any limb you climb out on will still be there later for you to climb back.  ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960 You don't choose your family.  They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.  ~Desmond Tutu An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship.  ~Spanish Proverb Blood's thicker than water, and when one's in trouble Best to seek out a relative's open arms. ~Author Unknown The happiness of the domestic fireside is the first boon of Heaven; and it is well it is so, since it is that which is the lot of the mass of mankind.  ~Thomas Jefferson, 1813 To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.  ~Barbara Bush When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them.  ~George Bernard Shaw Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family.  Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one.  ~Jane Howard In a houseful of toddlers and pets, you can start out having a bad day, but you keep getting detoured.  ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com There is no cure for laziness but a large family helps.  ~Herbert Prochnov Family quarrels are bitter things.  They don't go by any rules.  They're not like aches or wounds; they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material.  ~F. Scott Fitzgerald Our most basic instinct is not for survival but for family.  Most of us would give our own life for the survival of a family member, yet we lead our daily life too often as if we take our family for granted.  ~Paul Pearshall The great advantage of living in a large family is that early lesson of life's essential unfairness.  ~Nancy Mitford The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.  ~Thomas Jefferson Sometimes our hearts get tangled And our souls a little off-kilter Friends and family can set us right And help guide us back to the light. ~Sera Christann And thank you for a house full of people I love.  Amen.  ~Terri Guillemets The family - that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to.  ~Dodie Smith Family life is a bit like a runny peach pie - not perfect but who's complaining?  ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com The great gift of family life is to be intimately acquainted with people you might never even introduce yourself to, had life not done it for you.  ~Kendall Hailey,The Day I Became an Autodidact In time of test, family is best.  ~Burmese Proverb Family is just accident.... They don't mean to get on your nerves.  They don't even mean to be your family, they just are.  ~Marsha Norman The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works is the family.  ~Lee Iacocca Friends are God's apology for relations.  ~Hugh Kingsmill They... threw themselves into the interests of the rest, but each plowed his or her own furrow.  Their thoughts, their little passions and hopes and desires, all ran along separate lines.  Family life is like this - animated, but collateral.  ~Rose Macaulay What greater thing is there for human souls than to feel that they are joined for life - to be with each other in silent unspeakable memories.  ~George Eliot At the end of the day, a loving family should find everything forgivable.  ~Mark V. Olsen and Will Sheffer, Big Love, "Easter" If the family were a fruit, it would be an orange, a circle of sections, held together but separable - each segment distinct.  ~Letty Cottin Pogrebin In a household of toddlers and pets, we discover this rule of thumb about happy families - that they are least two-thirds incontinent.  ~Robert Brault,www.robertbrault.com The informality of family life is a blessed condition that allows us to become our best while looking our worst.  ~Marge Kennedy The family is one of nature's masterpieces.  ~George Santayana, The Life of Reason We cannot destroy kindred:  our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break.  ~Marquise de Sévigné The advantage of growing up with siblings is that you become very good at fractions.  ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family.  ~Anthony Brandt There's an awful lot of blood around that water is thicker than.  ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966 Family faces are magic mirrors.  Looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present, and future.  ~Gail Lumet Buckley If minutes were kept of a family gathering, they would show that "Members not Present" and "Subjects Discussed" were one and the same.  ~Robert Brault,www.robertbrault.com Are we not like two volumes of one book?  ~Marceline Desbordes-Valmore I don't have to look up my family tree, because I know that I'm the sap.  ~Fred Allen The lack of emotional security of our American young people is due, I believe, to their isolation from the larger family unit.  No two people - no mere father and mother - as I have often said, are enough to provide emotional security for a child.  He needs to feel himself one in a world of kinfolk, persons of variety in age and temperament, and yet allied to himself by an indissoluble bond which he cannot break if he could, for nature has welded him into it before he was born.  ~Pearl S. Buck

TEENAGER!#

The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time.  They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.  ~Quentin Crisp


Little children, headache; big children, heartache.  ~Italian Proverb


Heredity is what sets the parents of a teenager wondering about each other.  ~Laurence J. Peter


Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find a face of his own.  ~Logan Pearsall Smith, "Age and Death,"Afterthoughts, 1931


If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.  ~Al Bernstein


When buying a used car, punch the buttons on the radio.  If all the stations are rock and roll, there's a good chance the transmission is shot.  ~Larry Lujack


The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires.  ~Dorothy Parker


Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth.  ~Erma Bombeck


Adolescence is perhaps nature's way of preparing parents to welcome the empty nest.  ~Karen Savage and Patricia Adams, The Good Stepmother


In order to know whether a human being is young or old, offer it food of different kinds at short intervals.  If young, it will eat anything at any hour of the day or night.  ~Oliver Wendell Holmes


As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.  ~Fran Lebowitz, Social Studies


Too many of today's children have straight teeth and crooked morals.  ~Unknown high school principal


Few things are more satisfying than seeing your children have teenagers of their own.  ~Doug Larson


Adolescence: A stage between infancy and adultery.  ~Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911


Mother Nature is providential.  She gives us twelve years to develop a love for our children before turning them into teenagers.  ~William Galvin


The best substitute for experience is being sixteen.  ~Raymond Duncan


When the boy is growing he has a wolf in his belly.  ~German Proverb


In the time it takes you to understand a 14-year-old, he turns 15.  ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


Violet will be a good color for hair at just about the same time that brunette becomes a good color for flowers.  ~Fran Lebowitz


The teenager seems to have replaced the Communist as the appropriate target for public controversy and foreboding.  ~Edgar Friedenberg, The Vanishing Adolescent


The invention of the teenager was a mistake.  Once you identify a period of life in which people get to stay out late but don't have to pay taxes - naturally, no one wants to live any other way.  ~Judith Martin


There's nothing wrong with the younger generation that becoming taxpayers won't cure.  ~Dan Bennett


Adolescence is a period of rapid changes.  Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent ages as much as 20 years.  ~Author Unknown


When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around.  But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.  ~Mark Twain, "Old Times on the Mississippi" Atlantic Monthly, 1874

Chaperons don't enforce morality; they force immorality to be discreet.  ~Judith Martin

Teenagers complain there's nothing to do, then stay out all night doing it.  ~Bob Phillips


The average income of the modern teenager is about 2 a.m.  ~Author Unknown


Telling a teenager the facts of life is like giving a fish a bath.  ~Arnold H. Glasow


There isn't a child who hasn't gone out into the brave new world who eventually doesn't return to the old homestead carrying a bundle of dirty clothes.  ~Art Buchwald


It's difficult to decide whether growing pains are something teenagers have - or are.  ~Author Unknown


The average teenager still has all the faults his parents outgrew.  ~Author Unknown


A baby-sitter is a teenager who gets two dollars an hour to eat five dollars' worth of your food.  ~Henny Youngman


There is nothing wrong with today's teenager that twenty years won't cure.  ~Author Unknown


What a shame that allowances have to stop with the teens:  both those that are paid to us and those that are made for us.  ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960


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


You don't have to suffer to be a poet.  Adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.  ~John Ciardi, Simmons Review, Fall 1962


A boy becomes an adult three years before his parents think he does, and about two years after he thinks he does.  ~Lewis B. Hershey, News summaries, 31 December 1951


You can tell a child is growing up when he stops asking where he came from and starts refusing to tell where he is going.  ~Author Unknown


How strange that the young should always think the world is against them - when in fact that is the only time it is for them.  ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960


At fourteen you don't need sickness or death for tragedy.  ~Jessamyn West


It is hard to convince a high-school student that he will encounter a lot of problems more difficult than those of algebra and geometry.  ~Edgar W. Howe


Adolescents are not monsters.  They are just people trying to learn how to make it among the adults in the world, who are probably not so sure themselves.  ~Virginia Satir, The New Peoplemaking, 1988


The troubles of adolescence eventually all go away - it's just like a really long, bad cold.  ~Dawn Ruelas


Why do children want to grow up?  Because they experience their lives as constrained by immaturity and perceive adulthood as a condition of greater freedom and opportunity.  But what is there today, in America, that very poor and very rich adolescents want to do but cannot do?  Not much:  they can "do" drugs, "have" sex, "make" babies, and "get" money (from their parents, crime, or the State).  For such adolescents, adulthood becomes synonymous with responsibility rather than liberty.  Is it any surprise that they remain adolescents?  ~Thomas Szasz


I never expected to see the day when girls would get sunburned in the places they do now.  ~Will Rogers


Small children disturb your sleep, big children your life.  ~Yiddish Proverb


My adolescence progressed normally:  enough misery to keep the death wish my usual state, an occasional high to keep me from actually taking the gas-pipe.  ~Faye Moskowitz


Helping your eldest to pick a college is one of the greatest educational experiences of life - for the parents.  Next to trying to pick his bride, it's the best way to learn that your authority, if not entirely gone, is slipping fast.  ~Sally and James Reston

CHILDREN!#

We worry about what a child will become tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.  ~Stacia Tauscher You can learn many things from children.  How much patience you have, for instance.  ~Franklin P. Jones In a dark moment I ask, "How can anyone bring a child into this world?"  And the answer rings clear, "Because there is no other world, and because the child has no other way into it."  ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com I brought children into this dark world because it needed the light that only a child can bring.  ~Liz Armbruster, on robertbrault.com A characteristic of the normal child is he doesn't act that way very often.  ~Author Unknown We've had bad luck with our kids - they've all grown up.  ~Christopher Morley A child can ask questions that a wise man cannot answer.  ~Author Unknown Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.  ~Harold Hulbert Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music.  ~William Stafford The world is as many times new as there are children in our lives.  ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see.  ~Neil Postman, The Disappearance of Childhood (introduction), 1982 Children are one third of our population and all of our future.  ~Select Panel for the Promotion of Child Health, 1981 Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky.  ~Fran Lebowitz Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.  ~Rabindranath Tagore You are worried about seeing him spend his early years in doing nothing.  What!  Is it nothing to be happy?  Nothing to skip, play, and run around all day long?  Never in his life will he be so busy again.  ~Jean-Jacques Rousseau,Emile, 1762 A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.  ~Bill Vaughan If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all.  ~Pearl S. Buck In the United States today, there is a pervasive tendency to treat children as adults, and adults as children.  The options of children are thus steadily expanded, while those of adults are progressively constricted.  The result is unruly children and childish adults.  ~Thomas Szasz Children are unpredictable.  You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next.  ~Franklin P. Jones Children make you want to start life over.  ~Muhammad Ali Boy, n.:  a noise with dirt on it.  ~Not Your Average Dictionary I am fond of children - except boys.  ~Lewis Carroll Youth is a wonderful thing.  What a crime to waste it on children.  ~George Bernard Shaw There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson Children seldom misquote.  In fact, they usually repeat word for word what you shouldn't have said.  ~Author Unknown A little girl is sugar and spice and everything nice - especially when she's taking a nap.  ~Author Unknown A child is a curly dimpled lunatic.  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson In America there are two classes of travel - first class, and with children.  ~Robert Benchley The prime purpose of being four is to enjoy being four - of secondary importance is to prepare for being five.  ~Jim Trelease, The Read-Aloud Handbook, 1985 Youth is a perpetual intoxication; it is a fever of the mind.  ~François Duc de la Rochefoucauld Little girls are cute and small only to adults.  To one another they are not cute.  They are life-sized.  ~Margaret Atwood While we try to teach our children all about life, Our children teach us what life is all about. ~Angela Schwindt What is a home without children?  Quiet.  ~Henny Youngman It is not easy to be crafty and winsome at the same time, and few accomplish it after the age of six.  ~John W. Gardner and Francesca Gardner Reese A child seldom needs a good talking to as a good listening to.  ~Robert Brault,www.robertbrault.com If we would listen to our kids, we'd discover that they are largely self-explanatory.  ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com There are only two things a child will share willingly - communicable diseases and his mother's age.  ~Benjamin Spock, Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care, 1945 Do your kids a favor - don't have any.  ~Robert Orben Children find everything in nothing; men find nothing in everything.  ~Giacomo Leopardi, Zibaldone Scelto Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.  ~Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, 1969 Our genes make us immortal.  ~The Secret of Life, PBS Women gather together to wear silly hats, eat dainty food, and forget how unresponsive their husbands are.  Men gather to talk sports, eat heavy food, and forget how demanding their wives are.  Only where children gather is there any real chance of fun.  ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960 Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.  ~Phyllis Diller Anyone who thinks the art of conversation is dead ought to tell a child to go to bed.  ~Robert Gallagher Any kid will run any errand for you if you ask at bedtime.  ~Red Skelton The only thing worth stealing is a kiss from a sleeping child.  ~Joe Houldsworth There's nothing that can help you understand your beliefs more than trying to explain them to an inquisitive child.  ~Frank A. Clark If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers.  ~Edgar W. Howe It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.  ~Frederick Douglass If you haven't time to respond to a tug at your pants leg, your schedule is too crowded.  ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com The real menace in dealing with a five-year-old is that in no time at all you begin to sound like a five-year-old.  ~Joan Kerr, Please Don't Eat the Daisies, 1957 Children are contemptuous, haughty, irritable, envious, sneaky, selfish, lazy, flighty, timid, liars and hypocrites, quick to laugh and cry, extreme in expressing joy and sorrow, especially about trifles, they'll do anything to avoid pain but they enjoy inflicting it:  little men already.  ~Jean de La Bruyère, Les Caractères, 1688 There are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child.  There are seven million.  ~Walt Streightiff

BACK TO SCHOOL!#

If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers.  ~Edgar W. Howe


Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation.  If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you.  ~Erma Bombeck


Labor Day is a glorious holiday because your child will be going back to school the next day.  It would have been called Independence Day, but that name was already taken.  ~Bill Dodds


The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.  ~Sydney J. Harris


You send your child to the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys who educate him.  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson


Holidays are enticing only for the first week or so.  After that, it is no longer such a novelty to rise late and have little to do.  ~Margaret Laurence


The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have given his life.  ~Ernest Renan, Souvenirs d'enfance et de jeunesse, 1883


Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.  ~John Dewey


The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives. ~Robert Maynard Hutchins


As long as there are tests, there will be prayer in schools.  ~Author Unknown


I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.  ~Lily Tomlin as "Edith Ann"


The best teachers teach from the heart, not from the book.  ~Author Unknown


Often, when I am reading a good book, I stop and thank my teacher.  That is, I used to, until she got an unlisted number.  ~Author Unknown


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


The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.  ~Ralph W. Sockman


What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.  ~George Bernard Shaw


The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.  ~Aristotle


A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep.  ~W.H. Auden


An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.  ~Author unknown, commonly attributed to Benjamin Franklin


A cross-eyed teacher can keep twice the number of children in order than any other, because the pupils do not know who she's looking at.  ~Four Hundred Laughs: Or, Fun Without Vulgarity, compiled and edited by John R. Kemble, 1902


Anyone who thinks the art of conversation is dead ought to tell a child to go to bed.  ~Robert Gallagher


I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.  ~Mark Twain


It doesn't make much difference what you study, as long as you don't like it.  ~Finley Peter Dunne


You can get all A's and still flunk life.  ~Walker Percy


Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.  ~Albert Einstein


If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.  ~Attributed to both Andy McIntyre and Derek Bok


Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.  ~Edward Everett


He who opens a school door, closes a prison. ~Victor Hugo

Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?  ~Erich Fromm

Education aims to give you a boost up the ladder of knowledge.  Too often, it just gives you a cramp on one of its rungs.  ~Martin H. Fischer


Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they do not know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it.  ~William Haley


Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog.  ~Doug Larson


Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.  ~Malcolm S. Forbes


Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing worth knowing can be taught.  ~Oscar Wilde, "The Critic as Artist," 1890


Did you know America ranks the lowest in education but the highest in drug use?  It's nice to be number one, but we can fix that.  All we need to do is start the war on education.  If it's anywhere near as successful as our war on drugs, in no time we'll all be hooked on phonics.  ~Leighann Lord


Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.  ~Abbé Dimnet, Art of Thinking, 1928


When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.  ~Peter Drucker


Education is the movement from darkness to light.  ~Allan Bloom


Much education today is monumentally ineffective.  All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.  ~John W. Gardner


Education is not filling a pail but the lighting of a fire.  ~William Butler Yeats


I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver.  Then they would really be educated.  ~Al McGuire


Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.  ~Daniel J. Boorstin, Democracy and Its Discontents


The founding fathers... provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called education.  School is where you go between when your parents can't take you and industry can't take you.  ~John Updike, The Centaur, 1963


The one real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions.  ~Bishop Mandell Creighton


You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives.  ~Clay P. Bedford


When the student is ready, the master appears.  ~Buddhist Proverb


You learn something every day if you pay attention.  ~Ray LeBlond


The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr.  ~Mohammed


Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.  ~Chinese Proverb


All the world is a laboratory to the inquiring mind.  ~Martin H. Fischer


I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.  ~Winston Churchill


The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.  ~Mortimer Adler


Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem.  That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily.  ~Thomas Szasz


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


Learn as much as you can while you are young, since life becomes too busy later.  ~Dana Stewart Scott


The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.  ~Alvin Toffler


If a doctor, lawyer, or dentist had 40 people in his office at one time, all of whom had different needs, and some of whom didn't want to be there and were causing trouble, and the doctor, lawyer, or dentist, without assistance, had to treat them all with professional excellence for nine months, then he might have some conception of the classroom teacher's job.  ~Donald D. Quinn


A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.  ~Henry Brooks Adams


The mediocre teacher tells.  The good teacher explains.  The superior teacher demonstrates.  The great teacher inspires.  ~William Arthur Ward


The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.  ~Kahlil Gibran

BEING YOURSELF!#

Shoot for the moon.  Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.  ~Les Brown


Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.  ~Henry Ford


Success isn't a result of spontaneous combustion.  You must set yourself on fire.  ~Arnold H. Glasow


The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher.  ~Thomas Henry Huxley, Life and Letters of Thomas Huxley


If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.  ~J.M. Power


Great ideas need landing gear as well as wings.  ~C.D. Jackson


Life's problems wouldn't be called "hurdles" if there wasn't a way to get over them.  ~Author Unknown


Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.  ~Author Unknown


God gives us dreams a size too big so that we can grow in them.  ~Author Unknown


Seventy percent of success in life is showing up.  ~Woody Allen


Often, what seems an impossible climb is just a staircase without the steps drawn in.  ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


The best angle from which to approach any problem is the try-angle.  ~Author Unknown


The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers.  But above all, the world needs dreamers who do.  ~Sarah Ban Breathnach, Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy, 1996


When solving problems, dig at the roots instead of just hacking at the leaves.  ~Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book


You must have long-range goals to keep you from being frustrated by short-range failures.  ~Charles C. Noble


Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine.  ~Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book


Don't live down to expectations.  Go out there and do something remarkable.  ~Wendy Wasserstein


Things turn out best for the people who make the best out of the way things turn out.  ~Art Linkletter


Excellence is not a skill.  It is an attitude.  ~Ralph Marston


To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.  ~e.e. cummings, 1955


Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.  ~Judy Garland


Wherever you go, go with all your heart.  ~Confucius


You've got a lot of choices.  If getting out of bed in the morning is a chore and you're not smiling on a regular basis, try another choice.  ~Steven D. Woodhull


Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.  ~Dr. Seuss


Put your future in good hands - your own.  ~Author Unknown


It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.  ~Edmund Hillary


What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson


The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course.  ~Michelangelo

The man who has done his best has done everything.  ~Charles M. Schwab

There are many wonderful things that will never be done if you do not do them.  ~Charles D. Gill


What a fool, quoth he, am I, thus to lie in a stinking dungeon, when I may as well walk at liberty!  I have a key in my bosom, called Promise, that will, I am persuaded, open any lock in Doubting Castle.  ~John Bunyan


The important thing is not to stop questioning.  ~Albert Einstein


The best helping hand that you will ever receive is the one at the end of your own arm.  ~Fred Dehner


Nature decrees that we do not exceed the speed of light.  All other impossibilities are optional.  ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


You have brains in your head.
You have feet in your shoes.
You can steer yourself in any direction you choose.
You're on your own.
And you know what you know.
You are the guy who'll decide where to go.
~Dr. Seuss


Promise yourself to live your life as a revolution and not just a process of evolution.  ~Anthony J. D'Angelo


Dreams are free, so free your dreams.  ~Astrid Alauda


I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.  ~Pablo Picasso


What we are is God's gift to us.  What we become is our gift to God.  ~Eleanor Powell


The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.  ~Nelson Henderson


A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her.  ~David Brinkley


It's not who you are that holds you back, it's who you think you're not.  ~Author Unknown


Whether you think you can or think you can't - you are right.  ~Henry Ford


I quit being afraid when my first venture failed and the sky didn't fall down.  ~Allen H. Neuharth


In response to those who say to stop dreaming and face reality, I say keep dreaming and make reality.  ~Kristian Kan, Rich By 25


People are like stained-glass windows.  They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is light from within.  ~Elisabeth Kübler-Ross


Success comes in cans, not cant's.  ~Author Unknown


You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.  ~Michael Jordan


If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.  ~Thomas Alva Edison


Life is not about discovering our talents; it is about pushing our talents to the limit and discovering our genius.  ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


Always hold your head up, but be careful to keep your nose at a friendly level.  ~Max L. Forman


Don't let anyone steal your dream.  It's your dream, not theirs.  ~Dan Zadra


Plant your own garden and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.  ~Veronica A. Shoffstall, "After a While," 1971


The best way to gain self-confidence is to do what you are afraid to do.  ~Author Unknown


I've got a theory that if you give 100 percent all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.  ~Larry Bird


The difference between try and triumph is a little umph.  ~Author Unknown


Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.  ~Thomas Edison


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


Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.  ~Ann Landers


When the world says, "Give up,"
Hope whispers, "Try it one more time."
~Author Unknown


If one dream should fall and break into a thousand pieces, never be afraid to pick one of those pieces up and begin again.  ~Flavia Weedn, Flavia and the Dream Maker, © Flavia.com


There is no telling how many miles you will have to run while chasing a dream.  ~Author Unknown


Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson


Don't find fault.  Find a remedy.  ~Henry Ford


To the question of your life you are the answer, and to the problems of your life you are the solution.  ~Joe Cordare


Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it.  ~Buddha