The day in 2004 when the radiologist told me I had invasive cancer, I walked down the hospital corridor looking for a phone to call my husband, and I could almost see the fear coming toward me like a big, black shadow.

We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

Beverly Jones

Direct your eye right inward, and you'll findA thousand regions in your mindYet undiscovered. Travel them, and beExpert in home-cosmography.quoted by Thoreau in Walden Conclusion

William Habbington, from To My H

Perspective, as its inventor remarked, is a beautiful thing. What horrors of damp huts, where human beings languish, may not become picturesque through aerial distance! What hymning of cancerous vices may we not languish over as sublimest art in the safe remoteness of a strange language and artificial phrase! Yet we keep a repugnance to rheumatism and other painful effects when presented in our personal experience.

George Eliot

It doesn't matter what temperature the room is, it's always room temperature.

Steven Wright

I was sent to a nice Church of England girls' school and at that time, after university, a woman was expected to become a teacher, a nurse or a missionary - prior to marriage.

Kate Adie

Suddenly it seemed to me that I looked back from a great distance on that smile and saw it all again - the smile and the day, the whole sunny, sad, funny, wonderful day and all the days that we had spent here together. What was I going to do when such days came no more? There could not be many; for we were a family growing old. And how would I learn to live without these people? I who needed them so little that I could stay away all year - what should I do without them?

Jetta Carleton

Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety.

Aeschylus

Wars are caused by undefended wealth.

Ernest Hemingway

Sometimes, I feel like one who is on the sidelines, who has missed life itself.

Nelson Mandela

A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.

Edmund Burke

Life is a game of common sense. You can know all the data that the encyclopedia holds, but if you can't apply it to social situations and day to day events, you're on the same rank as someone with no data at all.

Zack W. Van