Quotes October 04, 2021

“Home is the nicest word there is.”
Laura Ingalls Wilder
 
 
 
 
“Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.”
Jane Austen
 
 
 
 
You can’t knock on opportunity’s door and not be ready.
Bruno Mars – Singer-Songwriter-Record Producer-Musician-Dancer
 
 
 
 
We must be impatient for change. Let us remember that our voice is a precious gift and we must use it.
Claudia Flores,
educator, lawyer, director of the Global Human Rights Clinic
National Hispanic Heritage Month is Sept. 15 to Oct. 15
 
 
 
 
If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans.
James Herriot
 
 
 
 
If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
George Bernard Shaw
 
 
 
 
He who has no fools, knaves, or beggars in his family was begot by a flash of lightning.
Old English proverb
 
 
 
 
“If you don’t see a clear path for what you want, sometimes you have to make it for yourself.”
Mindy Kaling
 
 
 
 
When a society or a civilization perishes, one condition can always be found. They forgot where they came from.
Carl Sandburg
 
 
 
 
Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
 
 
 
 
Nature’s what it’s all about, but our people have been brainwashed into thinking that life is a cell phone against your head and the TV on a beer commercial with hot chicks.
Tim Dorsey, Nuclear Jellyfish
 
 
 
 
The average TV commercial of sixty seconds has one hundred and twenty half-second clips in it, or one-third of a second. We bombard people with sensation. That substitutes for thinking.
Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
 
 
 
 
According to most studies, people’s number one fear is public speaking. Number two is death. Death is number two. Does that seem right? That means to the average person, if you have to go to a funeral, you’re better off in the casket than doing the eulogy.
Jerry Seinfeld
 
 
 
 
“If you’re illiterate, you probably live your life by a set of unwritten rules.”
Matt Fawcett
 
 
 
 
When your children are teenagers, it’s important to have a dog so that someone in the house is happy to see you.
Nora Ephron