I believe that investing in our children's development from the earliest age is the single most important contribution we can make to the health and wellbeing of our citizens, their capacity and the future prosperity of our state.

Dreams have always expanded our understanding of reality by challenging our boundaries of the real, of the possible.

Henry Reed

Holidays - any holiday - are such a great opportunity to focus on bringing the family together.

Lidia Bastianich

I probably grow half my food. It's a good way to keep perspective.

Emilio Estevez

Aspire rather to be a hero than merely appear one.

Baltasar Gracian

I believe there is complete equality between men and women. And I believe those passages in the New Testament, not by Jesus, but by Paul, that say women should not adorn themselves, they should always wear hats or color their hair in church - things like that - I think they are signs of the times and should not apply to modern-day life.

Jimmy Carter

History never really says goodbye. History says, 'See you later.'

Eduardo Galeano

There are as many reasons for running as there are days in the year, years in my life. But mostly I run because I am an animal and a child, an artist and a saint. So, too, are you. Find your own play, your own self-renewing compulsion, and you will become the person you are meant to be.

George Sheehan

In the transmission of human culture, people always attempt to replicate, to pass on to the next generation the skills and values of the parents, but the attempt always fails because cultural transmission is geared to learning, not DNA.

Gregory Bateson

I became a Republican because I trust people more than I trust government.

Heather Wilson

Art quickens nature; care will make a face; Neglected beauty perisheth apace.

Robert Herrick

A light wind swept over the corn, and all nature laughed in the sunshine.

Anne Bronte

Tea time is a chance to slow down, pull back and appreciate our surroundings.

Letitia Baldrige