i love you mom and dad poems

Faith enables persons to be persons because it lets God be God. ~Carter Lindberg



I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want. ~Mark Twain



Progress always involves risks. You can't steal second base and keep your foot on first. ~Frederick B. Wilcox



Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines. ~Satchel Paige, 1974



How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them. ~Samuel Taylor Coleridge



Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what you think it is you want to hear. ~Alan Coren



To people who think of themselves as God's houseguests, American enterprise must seem arrogant beyond belief. Or stupid. A nation of amnesiacs, proceeding as if there were no other day but today. Assuming the land could also forget what had been done to it. ~Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams



While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die. ~Leonardo Da Vinci



Zen martini: A martini with no vermouth at all. And no gin, either. ~P.J. O'Rourke



Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age. ~William Feather, The Business of Life, 1949



Die, v.: To stop sinning suddenly. ~Elbert Hubbard



Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse. ~Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin



Reality bites... and doesn't let go. ~Author Unknown



The publishers and others should quit worrying about losing customers to TV. The guy who can sit through a trio of deodorant commercials to look at Flashgun Casey or swallow a flock of beer and loan-shark spiels in order to watch a couple of fourth-rate club fighters rub noses on the ropes is not losing any time from book reading. ~Raymond Chandler, 1946



New York, the nation's thyroid gland. ~Christopher Morley, Shore Leave



Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Maxims and Reflections



Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick. Although we all prefer to use only the good passport, sooner or later each of us is obliged, at least for a spell, to identify ourselves as citizens of that other place. ~Susan Sontag, Illness as Metaphor, 1977



My quest for cosmic understanding is a book I have picked up and put down many times, always forgetting to insert a bookmark. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials. ~Meryl Streep



There is no one who does not exaggerate. In conversation, men are encumbered with personality, and talk too much. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson