quotes for anniversary

This is perhaps the most beautiful time in human history; it is really pregnant with all kinds of creative possibilities made possible by science and technology which now constitute the slave of man - if man is not enslaved by it. ~Jonas Salk



My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing. ~Aldous Huxley



There is so little difference between husbands you might as well keep the first. ~Adela Rogers St. Johns



Great things are done when men and mountains meet. This is not done by jostling in the street. ~William Blake



Homecoming unites the past and the present. ~Author Unknown



How much has to be explored and discarded before reaching the naked flesh of feeling. ~Claude Debussy



What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner. ~Colette



Self-assurance is contemptible and fatal unless it is self-knowledge. ~George Santayana, Character and Opinion in the United States, 1921



Man is a history-making creature who can neither repeat his past nor leave it behind. ~W.H. Auden, The Dyer's Hand



Home is the one place in all this world where hearts are sure of each other. It is the place of confidence. It is the place where we tear off that mask of guarded and suspicious coldness which the world forces us to wear in self-defense, and where we pour out the unreserved communications of full and confiding hearts. It is the spot where expressions of tenderness gush out without any sensation of awkwardness and without any dread of ridicule. ~Frederick W. Robertson Home is where you can say anything you like cause nobody listens to you anyway. ~Author Unknown



You will always be your child's favorite toy. ~Vicki Lansky, Trouble-Free Travel with Children, 1991



The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he never would be found out. ~Thomas Babington Macaulay



The biblical account of Noah's Ark and the Flood is perhaps the most implausible story for fundamentalists to defend. Where, for example, while loading his ark, did Noah find penguins and polar bears in Palestine? ~Judith Hayes



Thy word is a lamp to my feet, and a light to my path. ~Psalms 119:105



Physics is imagination in a straight jacket. ~John Moffat



There is a way that nature speaks, that land speaks. Most of the time we are simply not patient enough, quiet enough to pay attention to the story. ~Linda Hogan



Happiness is the soundtrack of my life. ~Grey Livingston



The world is poised on the cusp of an economic and cultural shift as dramatic as that of the Industrial Revolution. (OK, it doesn't take a genius, or even a politician, to figure out that big changes are afoot when we have a medium that lets someone throw up a virtual storefront on the Web and instantly gain access to the global market.) ~Steven Levy, 1997



It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to. ~J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Chapter 21



A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself. ~Axel Munthe