Memory Quotes

A childhood is what anyone wants to remember of it. It leaves behind no fossils, except perhaps in fiction. ~Carol Shields

I have memories - but only a fool stores his past in the future. ~David Gerrold

Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door. ~Saul Bellow

There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory. ~Josh Billings

Every man's memory is his private literature. ~Aldous Huxley

Memory is a way of holding onto the things you love, the things you are, the things you never want to lose. ~From the television show The Wonder Years

Memory is a crazy woman that hoards colored rags and throws away food. ~Austin O'Malley

We do not remember days; we remember moments. ~Cesare Pavese, The Burning Brand

And even if you were in some prison, the walls of which let none of the sounds of the world come to your senses - would you not then still have your childhood, that precious, kingly possession, that treasure-house of memories? ~Rainer Maria Rilke

Pleasure is the flower that passes; remembrance, the lasting perfume. ~Jean de Boufflers

Teacher's Day Quotes

"Good teachers are costly, but bad teachers cost more." - Bob Talbert

"The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-distrust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciple." - Amos Bronson Alcott

"A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others." -Anonymous

"Teaching is leaving a vestige of one self in the development of another. And surely the student is a bank where you can deposit your most precious treasures." - Eugene P. Bertin

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

"A teacher's purpose is not to create students in his own image, but to develop students who can create their own image." - Anonymous

"What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches." - Karl Menninger

"The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called truth." - Dan Rather

"In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years." - Jacques Barzun

"Teaching is the profession that teaches all the other professions." - Anonymous

"The best teachers teach from the heart, not from the book." - Anonymous

Father's Day Quotes

He didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.-- Clarence Budington Kelland


My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, "You're tearing up the grass." "We're not raising grass," Dad would reply. "We're raising boys. -- Harmon Killebrew


One father is more than a hundred Schoolemasters.-- George Herbert, Outlandish Proverbs, 1640


Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.-- Bill Cosby


Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name.-- William Wordsworth


Henry James once defined life as that predicament which precedes death, and certainly nobody owes you a debt of honor or gratitude for getting him into that predicament. But a child does owe his father a debt, if Dad, having gotten him into this peck of trouble, takes off his coat and buckles down to the job of showing his son how best to crash through it.-- Clarence Budington Kelland


A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.-- Enid Bagnold

Weight Loss Quotes

We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope. --Martin Luther King, Jr.

The sovereign invigorator of the body is exercise, and of all the exercises walking is the best.--Thomas Jefferson

The world of achievement has always belonged to the optimist.--Harold Wilkins

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.--Elie Wiesel

When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.-- Harriet Beecher Stowe

Famous Quotes And Sayings: Best Friend Sayings

Famous Quotes And Sayings: Best Friend Sayings

Best Friend Sayings

A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they're not so good, and sympathizes with your problems when they're not so bad. - Arnold H. Glasgow

A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails. - Donna Roberts

Yesterday brought the beginning; tomorrow brings the end, and somewhere in the middle we became the best of friends. - Anonymous

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out. - Walter Winchell

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me. - Henry Ford quotes

Best friends are the siblings God forgot to give us. - Anonymous

A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down. - Arnold Glasow

Best friend, my well-spring in the wilderness! - George Eliot

We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can't tolerate. - William James

What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk. - Marcus Tullius Cicero

A true friend is one who thinks you are a good egg even if you are half-cracked. - Anonymous

Hold a true friend with both your hands. - Nigerian Proverb

A good friend is a connection to life - a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world. - Lois Wyse

You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job. - Laurence J. Peter

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable. - Dave Tyson Gentry

A true friend unbosoms freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably. - William Penn


It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness blow the rest away. - Dinah Craik

Uplifting Quotes

Forget about the fast lane. If you really want to fly, just harness your power to your passion. ~ Oprah

To reach a port, we must sail ~ sail, not tie at anchor ~ sail, not drift. ~ Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Follow your bliss. ~ Joseph Campbell

I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.~ Arthur Rubinstein

I am not afraid of storms, I am learning to sail my own ship. ~ Louise May Alcott

The best thing about being a woman, is the prerogative to have a little fun! ~ Shania Twain

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. ~ Annie Dillard

Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature Quotes

How strange that Nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude! ~Emily Dickinson

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

I believe that there is a subtle magnetism in Nature, which, if we unconsciously yield to it, will direct us aright. ~Henry David Thoreau

God writes the gospel not in the Bible alone, but on trees and flowers and clouds and stars. ~ Martin Luther

How strange that Nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude! ~Emily Dickinson, letter to Mrs. J.S. Cooper, 1880


I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in. ~John Muir, 1913, in L.M. Wolfe, ed., John Muir, John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir, 1938


What humbugs we are, who pretend to live for Beauty, and never see the Dawn! ~Logan Pearsall Smith


Man's heart away from nature becomes hard. ~Standing Bear


How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains! ~John Muir

I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in. ~George Washington Carver

What humbugs we are, who pretend to live for Beauty, and never see the Dawn! ~Logan Pearsall Smith

Driving Quotes

Driving with one foot on the accelerator and the other on the brake is likely to get you nowhere, but certainly will burn out vital parts of your car. Similarly, cutting taxes on the middle class, but increasing them on the 'rich' is likely to result in an economic burnout. --Terry Savage

Composing is like driving down a foggy road toward a house. Slowly you see more details of the house-the color of the slates and bricks, the shape of the windows. The notes are the bricks and the mortar of the house. --Benjamin Britten

Certainly dog driving is the most terrible work one has to face in this sort of business. -- Robert Falcon Scott

Because of my crazy work schedule, I have become something of a master at changing my clothes while driving. The men driving next to me love it. --Vanessa Marcil

Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat. --Martin Henry Fischer

Driving a cab is not really a nurturing type of relationship. You take people and they tip you, they may not tip you, you don't know their names, they don't care about you, you don't care about them. -- Pam Grier

Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia. Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated. -- Jean Baudrillard

Cultivating literature as I do upon a little oatmeal, and driving, when in a position to be driven at all, in that humble vehicle, the 'bus, I have had, perhaps, exceptional opportunities for observing their mutual position and behaviour; and it is very peculiar. -- James Payn

Quotes on India

We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made!--Albert Einstein


If there is one place on the face of earth where all the dreams of living men have found a home from the very earliest days when man began the dream of existence, it is India!-- French scholar Romaine Rolland


India is the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend, and the great grand mother of tradition. Our most valuable and most astrictive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India only!--Mark Twain

So far as I am able to judge, nothing has been left undone, either by man or nature, to make India the most extraordinary country that the sun visits on his rounds. Nothing seems to have been forgotten, nothing overlooked.--Mark Twain


She (India) has left indelible imprints on one fourth of the human race in the course of a long succession of centuries. She has the right to reclaim ... her place amongst the great nations summarizing and symbolizing the spirit of humanity. From Persia to the Chinese sea, from the icy regions of Siberia to Islands of Java and Borneo, India has propagated her beliefs, her tales, and her civilization!--Sylvia Levi


India conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without ever having to send a single soldier across her border!--Hu Shih, former Ambassador of China to USA

If I were asked under what sky the human mind has most fully developed some of its choicest gifts, has most deeply pondered on the greatest problems of life, and has found solutions, I should point to India--Max Mueller


India was the mother of our race and Sanskrit the mother of Europe's languages. She was the mother of our philosophy, mother through the Arabs, of much of our mathematics, mother through Buddha, of the ideals embodied in Christianity, mother through village communities of self-government and democracy. Mother India is in many ways the mother of us all.--Will Durant

Happy Quotes

There are hundreds of languages in the world, but a smile speaks them all. ~ Anonymous

The earth laughs in flowers. ~ e. e. cummings

There are no language barriers when you are smiling. ~ Allen Klein

A good laugh is sunshine in a house. ~ William Makepeace Thackeray

Let a series of happy thoughts run through your mind. They will show on your face. ~ Unknown

Father's Day Funny Quotes

Never raise your hand to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected. --Red Buttons

If the new American father feels bewildered and even defeated, let him take comfort from the fact that whatever he does in any fathering situation has a fifty percent chance of being right. --Bill Cosby

Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards.--Robert Orben

If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons. --James Baldwin

It is a wise father that knows his own child. --William Shakespeare

Those who trust us educate us.--T. S. Eliot

By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong.--Charles Wadsworth

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 the old man had learned in seven years. --Mark Twain

That is the thankless position of the father in the family-the provider for all, and the enemy of all.--J. August Strindberg

I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection. --Sigmund Freud