quotes about aunts and nieces

The very ink with which all history is written is merely fluid prejudice. ~Mark Twain, Following the Equator



To many people virtue consists chiefly in repenting faults, not in avoiding them. ~Georg Christoph Lichtenberg



Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man. To decide against your conviction is to be an unqualified and excusable traitor, both to yourself and to your country, let me label you as they may. ~Mark Twain



Uncles and aunts, and cousins, are all very well, and fathers and mothers are not to be despised; but a grandmother, at holiday time, is worth them all. ~Fanny Fern



What this country needs is more free speech worth listening to. ~Hansell B. Duckett



While breastfeeding may not seem the right choice for every parent, it is the best choice for every baby. ~Amy Spangler



One must spend time in gathering knowledge to give it out richly. ~Edward C. Steadman



Christ died for our sins. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them? ~Jules Feiffer



If the anti-abortion movement took a tenth of the energy they put into noisy theatrics and devoted it to improving the lives of children who have been born into lives of poverty, violence, and neglect, they could make a world shine. ~Michael Jay Tucker



After a night in fight club, everything in the real world gets the volume turned down. Nothing can piss you off. Your word is law, and if other people break that law or question you, even that doesn't piss you off. ~Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club, Chapter 6



Home is a shelter from storms - all sorts of storms. ~William J. Bennett



Warrior pose battles inner weakness and wins focus. You see that there is no war within you. You're on your own side, and you are your own strength. ~Terri Guillemets



Say what you want about aging, it's still the only way to have old friends. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity. ~Aristotle



I judge a religion as being good or bad based on whether its adherents become better people as a result of practicing it. ~Joe Mullally



When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn. ~Harriet Beecher Stowe



The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men. ~Martin Luther King, Jr., Strength to Love, 1963



Every job is a self-portrait of the person who does it. Autograph your work with excellence. ~Author Unknown



A bend in the road is not the end of the road... unless you fail to make the turn. ~Author Unknown



When we Indians kill meat, we eat it all up.... When we build houses, we make little holes. When we burn grass for grasshoppers, we don't ruin things. We shake down acorns and pinenuts. We don't chop down the trees. ~Wintu Indian, quoted in Julian Burger, The Gaia Atlas of First Peoples, 1990