quotes about growing up and life

Your heart knows which path leads to joy and your mind keeps you on the right track. ~J Beard, @promoterofpeace


Henceforth I ask not good-fortune, I myself am good-fortune. ~Walt Whitman


Who was the first guy that look at a cow and said, "I think that I'll drink whatever comes out of those things when I squeeze them?" ~Bill Watterson


I resolve to speak ill of no man whatever, not even in a matter of truth; but rather by some means excuse the faults I hear charged upon others, and upon proper occasions speak all the good I know of everybody. ~Benjamin Franklin


The typical gambler might not really understand the probabilistic nuances of the wheel or the dice, but such things seem a bit more tractable than, say, trying to raise a child in this lunatic society of ours. ~Arthur S. Reber, The New Gambler's Bible


And so we shall have to do more than register and more than vote; we shall have to create leaders who embody virtues we can respect, who have moral and ethical principles we can applaud with enthusiasm. ~Martin Luther King, Jr.


A teacher's purpose is not to create students in his own image, but to develop students who can create their own image. ~Author Unknown


"You're more trouble than the children are" is the greatest compliment a grandparent can receive. ~Gene Perret


Like snowflakes, my Christmas memories gather and dance - each beautiful, unique and too soon gone. ~Deborah Whipp


In gardens, beauty is a by-product. The main business is sex and death. ~Sam Llewelyn


Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future. ~Antoine Rivarol


When I dunk, I put something on it. I want the ball to hit the floor before I do. ~Darryl Dawkins


Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists. ~Norman Mailer


Baseball was made for kids, and grown-ups only screw it up. ~Bob Lemon


We must be our own before we can be another's. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. ~Joseph Campbell


To teach is to learn twice. ~Joseph Joubert, Pensees, 1842


No child but must remember laying his head in the grass, staring into the infinitesimal forest and seeing it grow populous with fairy armies. ~Robert Louis Stevenson, Essays in The Art of Writing


My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened. ~Michel de Montaigne


A margin of life is developed by Nature for all living things - including man. All life forms obey Nature's demands - except man, who has found ways of ignoring them. ~Eugene M. Poirot, Our Margin of Life, 1978


The husband who doesn't tell his wife everything probably reasons that what she doesn't know won't hurt him. ~Leo J. Burke