quotes on growing up

God hides things by putting them all around us. ~Author Unknown



The public history of all countries, and all ages, is but a sort of mask, richly colored. The interior working of the machinery must be foul. ~John Quincy Adams



Happy the people whose annals are blank in history-books. ~Thomas Carlyle, Life of Frederick the Great



I merely observe that all living things are manipulated. As long as there is a will, it is bent and twisted constantly. Only the dead are allowed the luxury of freedom, and then only because they want nothing, and therefore can't be thwarted. ~Orson Scott Card



My sons think it's a fireman's pole, but I forgot to cut a hole through the ground into the kitchen. ~Pamela Anderson



That bitter word, which closed all earthly friendships and finished every feast of love farewell! ~Robert Pollok



We have more ability than will power, and it is often an excuse to ourselves that we imagine that things are impossible. ~Fran�ois de la Rochefoucauld



Easter says you can put truth in a grave, but it won't stay there. ~Clarence W. Hall



It's easy to understand love at first sight, but how do we explain love after two people have been looking at each other for years? ~Author Unknown



If you just set people in motion they'll heal themselves. ~Gabrielle Roth



People must have renounced, it seems to me, all natural intelligence to dare to advance that animals are but animated machines.... It appears to me, besides, that such people can never have observed with attention the character of animals, not to have distinguished among them the different voices of need, of suffering, of joy, of pain, of love, of anger, and of all their affections. It would be very strange that they should express so well what they could not feel. ~Voltaire, Traite sur la tolerance



Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways. ~Samuel McChord Crothers Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value. ~Albert Einstein



Commit to be fit. ~Author Unknown



If we cannot be clever, we can always be kind. ~Alfred Fripp



To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography. ~George Santayana



I never really look for anything. What God throws my way comes. I wake up in the morning and whichever way God turns my feet, I go. ~Pearl Bailey



Like good wine, marriage gets better with age - once you learn to keep a cork in it. ~Gene Perret



Sisters may share the same mother and father but appear to come from different families. ~Author Unknown



Someday perhaps the inner light will shine forth from us, and then we'll need no other light. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe



Tattooing is about personalizing the body, making it a true home and fit temple for the spirit that dwells inside it.... Tattooing therefore, is a way of keeping the spiritual and material needs of my body in balance. ~Michelle Delio