quotes for kids

One day our descendants will think it incredible that we paid so much attention to things like the amount of melanin in our skin or the shape of our eyes or our gender instead of the unique identities of each of us as complex human beings. ~Franklin Thomas


We steal if we touch tomorrow. It is God's. ~Henry Ward Beecher


When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names of hell. That is why we dread children, even if we love them, they show us the state of our decay. ~Brian Aldiss


College is a place to keep warm between high school and an early marriage. ~George Gobel


Everyone should learn to do one thing supremely well because he likes it, and one thing supremely well because he detests it. ~Brigham Young


The way the neurotic sees it: bars on his door mean that he's locked in; bars on your door mean that he's locked out. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966


I keep my end tables full of needlework and quilting so I don't have to dust them. ~Author Unknown


There is nothing that gives more assurance than a mask. ~Colette


One token of her shame would but poorly serve to hide another. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, Chapter II "The Market-Place"


As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality. ~Albert Einstein, Sidelights on Relativity


Our jovial star reigned at his birth. ~William Shakespeare


Friends are the sailors who guide your rickety boat safely across the dangerous waters of life. ~Sare and Cate


The light is what guides you home, the warmth is what keeps you there. ~Ellie Rodriguez, @sapphiremoon13


If you think you are too small to be effective, you have never been in bed with a mosquito. ~Betty Reese


I am not certain of the hereafter. Frankly, I'm not all that certain of the here. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected. ~Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook


All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible. ~T.E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom, 1926


If you want to read about love and marriage, you've got to buy two separate books. ~Alan King


Sex without love is an empty experience, but as empty experiences go it's one of the best. ~Woody Allen


These heroes are dead. They died for liberty - they died for us. They are at rest. They sleep in the land they made free, under the flag they rendered stainless, under the solemn pines, the sad hemlocks, the tearful willows, and the embracing vines. They sleep beneath the shadows of the clouds, careless alike of sunshine or of storm, each in the windowless Place of Rest. Earth may run red with other wars - they are at peace. In the midst of battle, in the roar of conflict, they found the serenity of death. I have one sentiment for soldiers living and dead: cheers for the living; tears for the dead. ~Robert G. Ingersoll