birthday quotes for teachers

Walking: the most ancient exercise and still the best modern exercise. ~Carrie Latet



I know some sisters who only see each other on Mother's Day and some who will never speak again. But most are like my sister and me... linked by volatile love, best friends who make other best friends ever so slightly less best. ~Patricia Volk



I speak truth, not so much as I would, but as much as I dare; and I dare a little the more, as I grow older. ~Michel de Montaigne, translated



When life gives you lemons, please, just don't squirt them in other people's eyes. ~J. Andrew Helt



People who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours with them. ~Dave Barry, "Things That It Took Me 50 Years to Learn"



He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put into vials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw, inclement summers. ~Jonathan Swift



Sisters are different flowers from the same garden. ~Author Unknown



Sunshine is my quest. ~Winston Churchill



It's so curious: one can resist tears and 'behave' very well in the hardest hours of grief. But then someone makes you a friendly sign behind a window, or one notices that a flower that was in bud only yesterday has suddenly blossomed, or a letter slips from a drawer... and everything collapses. ~Colette



If Jesus Christ were to come today people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he has to say, and make fun of it. ~Thomas Carlyle



I doubt whether the world holds for anyone a more soul-stirring surprise than the first adventure with ice cream. ~Heywood Broun



I believe in God; I just don't trust anyone who works for him. ~Author unknown, from a stand-up comedy routine on television



If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much. ~Mark Twain



Love is missing someone whenever you're apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you're close in heart. ~Kay Knudsen



Poker: the art of civilized bushwhacking. ~Nick Dandalos, attributed



To a small man every greater is an exaggeration. ~Henry David Thoreau



Novelties please less than they impress. ~Byron, Don Juan, 1824



But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine. ~Thomas Jefferson



Every man's memory is his private literature. ~Aldous Huxley



A lot of parents pack up their troubles and send them off to summer camp. ~Raymond Duncan