Well, my mom taught public school music for almost 40 years. And she's about 5 feet - and very mighty. And she would control her kids a lot by giving them the eye, or the stare.

He went to the church, and walked about the streets, and watched the people hurrying to and for, and patted the children on the head, and questioned beggars, and looked down into the kitchens of homes, and up to the windows, and found that everything could yield him pleasure. He had never dreamed of any walk, that anything, could give him so much happiness. (p. 119)

Charles Dickens

Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise.

Paul Engle

It is not possible to create peace in the Middle East by jeopardizing the peace of the world.

Aneurin Bevan

I was a sickly baby, and after two sets of adoptive parents took me home, they returned me to the orphanage because of a serious respiratory infection. But as they say, the third time's a charm, because my mom and dad adopted me and took me into their home where I was raised in a family full of love.

Rodney Atkins

At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he know he can't.

Clarence Darrow

As for believing things, I can believe anything, provided that it is quite incredible.

Oscar Wilde

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

May you live to be 100 and may the last voice you hear be mine.

Frank Sinatra

Without a goal to work toward, we will not get there.

Natasha Josefowitz

Do notforget duty. But choose love when you can.

Cinda Williams Chima

Well, one of the most important things for Americans to be reminded of is that a lot of the exceptional nature of our country is founded in Judeo-Christian values that promotes individualism, personal responsibility, a strong work ethic, and a commitment to family, charity.

Jim DeMint

What matters right now is this: we're each of us standing here, together, alive, together.

Beth Revis