quotes on kites

As we grow old, the beauty steals inward. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



There are things I have wanted so long that I would only consent to have them if I could keep wanting them. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



You can swim all day in the Sea of Knowledge and still come out completely dry. Most people do. ~Author Unknown



Of all the aspects of social misery nothing is so heartbreaking as unemployment. ~Jane Addams, 1910



Most people do not consider dawn to be an attractive experience - unless they are still up. ~Ellen Goodman



Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a purpose. ~Garrison Keillor



Conscience is what hurts when everything else feels so good. ~Author Unknown



The American people have now spoken, but it's going to take a little while to determine what they've said. ~Bill Clinton, about the 2000 election



I don't love baseball. I don't love most of today's players. I don't love the owners. I do love, however, the baseball that is in the heads of baseball fans. I love the dreams of glory of 10-year-olds, the reminiscences of 70-year-olds. The greatest baseball arena is in our heads, what we bring to the games, to the telecasts, to reading newspaper reports. ~Stan Isaacs, "Diamond-Studded Memories," Newsday, 9 April 1990



The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell without being heard. ~Barbara Tuchman



The Internet is a shallow and unreliable electronic repository of dirty pictures, inaccurate rumors, bad spelling and worse grammar, inhabited largely by people with no demonstrable social skills. ~Author Unknown



If God dropped acid, would he see people? ~Steven Wright



One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer. ~Lord Byron



God can heal a broken heart, but He has to have all the pieces. ~Author Unknown



No race can prosper till it learns there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem. ~Booker T. Washington



Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might. ~Ecclesiastes 9:10



You have but to know an object by its proper name for it to lose its dangerous magic. ~Elias Canetti



How sickness enlarges the dimension of a man's self to himself! ~Charles Lamb, Last Essays of Elia



Whoso boasteth himself of a false gift is like clouds and wind without rain. ~Proverbs 25:14



Self-discipline implies some unpleasant things to me, including staying away from chocolate and keeping my hands out of women's pants. ~Oleg Kiselev