quotes about change and growing up

When I was in the military they gave me a medal for killing two men and a discharge for loving one. ~Epitaph of Leonard P. Matlovich, 1988 (Thanks, Marlene)



You must have long-range goals to keep you from being frustrated by short-range failures. ~Charles C. Noble



I have two doctors, my left leg and my right. ~G.M. Trevelyan



Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art. ~Will Durant, The Story of Philosophy, 1926



The finest clothing made is a person's skin, but, of course, society demands something more than this. ~Mark Twain



Night is a world lit by itself. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin



In matters of principle, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current. ~Thomas Jefferson



You men are not our protectors.... If you were, who would there be to protect us from? ~Mary Edwards Walker



Self-respect is a question of recognizing that anything worth having has a price. ~Author Unknown



I have strong doubts that the first Thanksgiving even remotely resembled the "history" I was told in second grade. But considering that (when it comes to holidays) mainstream America's traditions tend to be over-eating, shopping, or getting drunk, I suppose it's a miracle that the concept of giving thanks even surfaces at all. ~Ellen Orleans



There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it. ~George Bernard Shaw



I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions. ~Lillian Hellman I cannot for the life of me see why the umpires, the only two people on a cricket field who are not going to get grass stains on their knees, are the only two people allowed to wear dark trousers. ~Katharine Whitehorn



The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness. ~Norman Cousins



If Obama sees his shadow tomorrow, do we get six more years of Bush? ~Dave Beard



Christ does not give men light but from moment to moment; the instant He withdraws, all is darkness.... God does not give them a stock of holiness. ~Johnn Wesley



Medicine is the only profession that labours incessantly to destroy the reason for its own existence. ~James Bryce, 1914



I cannot afford to waste my time making money. ~Louis Agassiz



A photograph is usually looked at - seldom looked into. ~Ansel Adams



Don't you know that if people could bottle the air they would? Don't you know that there would be an American Air-bottling Association? And don't you know that they would allow thousands and millions to die for want of breath, if they could not pay for air? I am not blaming anybody. I am just telling how it is. ~Robert Ingersoll, A Lay Sermon



The world is full of fools and faint hearts; and yet everyone has courage enough to bear the misfortunes, and wisdom enough to manage the affairs, of his neighbor. ~Benjamin Franklin