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Monday 28 May 2012

QUOTES ABOUT CHILDREN



 
“Children are people, and they should have to reach to learn about things, to understand things, just as adults have to reach if they want to grow in mental stature. Life is composed of lights and shadows, and we would be untruthful, insincere, and saccharine if we tried to pretend there were no shadows. Most things are good, and they are the strongest things; but there are evil things too, and you are not doing a child a favor by trying to shield him from
reality. The important thing is to teach a child that good can always triumph over evil.”
 

  
 "Children are great imitators. So give them something great to imitate."
Barbara Bush, former U.S. first lady
 
"You have to love your children unselfishly. That is hard. But it is the only way."
Henry Ward Beecher, reverand and social activist
 
"Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven."
Doc Childre, founder of the nonprofit institute HeartMath, a research and education organization
 
"An aware parent loves all children he or she interacts with - for you are a caretaker for those moments in time."
English proverb
 
"The soul is healed by being with children."
Mohandes Ghandi
 
"If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children."
Emma Goldman,
 
"No one has yet fully realized the wealth of sympathy, kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure."
Lady Bird Johnson, former U.S. first lady
 
"Children are likely to live up to what you believe of them."
Herbert Hoover
 
"Children are our most valuable resource."
Nelson Mandela


"Safety and security don't just happen, they are the result of collective consensus and public investment. We owe our children, the most vulnerable citizens in our society, a life free of violence and fear."
Nelson Mandela
 
"There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children."
Patrick McDonald,
 
"Why is it that a child's death amounts to a tragedy, but the death of millions is merely a statistic?"
Mignon McLaughlin
 
"Only where children gather is there any real chance of fun."
Dwight L. Moody
 
"If I could relive my life, I would devote my entire ministry to reaching children for God!"
Brad Pitt
 
"Let us be the ones who say we do not accept that a child dies every three seconds simply because he does not have the drugs you and I have. Let us be the ones to say we are not satisfied that your place of birth determines your right to life. Let us be outraged, let us be loud, let us be bold."
Princess Diana
 
"Hugs can do great amounts of good, especially for children."
Dr. Seuss
 
"A person's a person, no matter how small."
Wess Stafford, President, Compassion International

"Every child you encounter is a divine appointment."
David Vitter

 
"I continue to believe that if children are given the necessary tools to succeed, they will succeed beyond their wildest dreams!"
John W. Whitehead, founder
 
"Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see."
Ray L. Wilbur
 
"The potential possibilities of any child are the most intriguing and stimulating in all creation."
Bono, lead singer of U2
 
"God is in the slums, in the cardboard boxes where the poor play house. God is in the silence of a mother who has infected her child with a virus that will end both their lives. God is in the cries heard under the rubble of war. God is in the debris of wasted opportunity and lives, and God is with us if we are with them."
Bono, lead singer of U2
 
"To me, a faith in Jesus Christ that is not aligned with the poor ... it's nothing."
Frank Buchman, 
  
"There is enough in the world for everyone's need, but not for everyone's greed."
Mohandas Ghandi,
 
"There are people in the world so hungry that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread."
C.S. Lewis
 
"Nothing that you have not given away will ever truly be yours."
Mother Teresa
 
"The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread."
 
Mother Teresa

 
"When a poor person dies of hunger, it has not happened because God did not take care of him or her. It has happened because neither you nor I wanted to give that person what he or she needed."
Mother Teresa
 
"It's the greatest poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish."
Princess Diana
 
"You can't comfort the afflicted without afflicting the comfortable."
Adam Schiff
 
"Americans are blessed with great plenty; we are a generous people and we have a moral obligation to assist those who are suffering from poverty, disease, war and famine."
Jim Wallis
 
"The Bible insists that the best test of a nation's righteousness is how it treats the poorest and most vulnerable in its midst."
Albert Einstein
 
"The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing."
Anonymous
 
"There's more to doing good than hating evil."
Bill Gates
 
"I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act."
Edmund Burke
 
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do nothing."
 
Epitaph, tombstone
"For the Lord Jesus Christ's sake, Do all the good you can, To all the people you can, In all the ways you can, As long as ever you can."
John Charles Salak
 
"Failures are divided into two classes — those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought."
Martin Luther King Jr.
 
"The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: 'If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?' But ... the good Samaritan reversed the question: 'If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?'"
Martin Luther King Jr.
 
"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."
Mohandas Ghandi,
 
"Be the change that you want to see in the world."
Sir Winston Churchill
 
"The price of greatness is responsibility."
“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.”
  Albert Einstein

“You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”
  Madeleine L'Engle

“Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.”
  George Bernard Shaw

“To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.”
  Oscar Wilde,

“I cannot go to school today"
Said little Peggy Ann McKay.


"I have the measles and the mumps,
A gash, a rash and purple bumps.

My mouth is wet, my throat is dry.
I'm going blind in my right eye.
My tonsils are as big as rocks,
I've counted sixteen chicken pox.


And there's one more - that's seventeen,
And don't you think my face looks green?
My leg is cut, my eyes are blue,
It might be the instamatic flu.

I cough and sneeze and gasp and choke,
I'm sure that my left leg is broke.
My hip hurts when I move my chin,
My belly button's caving in.

My back is wrenched, my ankle's sprained,
My 'pendix pains each time it rains.
My toes are cold, my toes are numb,

I have a sliver in my thumb.

My neck is stiff, my voice is weak,
I hardly whisper when I speak.
My tongue is filling up my mouth,

I think my hair is falling out.

My elbow's bent, my spine ain't straight,
My temperature is one-o-eight.
My brain is shrunk, I cannot hear,

There's a hole inside my ear.

I have a hangnail, and my heart is ...
What? What's that? What's that you say?
You say today is .............. Saturday?

G'bye, I'm going out to play!”
  Shel Silverstein

“No sight so sad as that of a naughty child," he began, "especially a naughty little girl. Do you know where the wicked go after death?"


"They go to hell," was my ready and orthodox answer.

"And what is hell? Can you tell me that?"

"A pit full of fire."

"And should you like to fall into that pit, and to be burning there for ever?"

"No, sir."

"What must you do to avoid it?"

I deliberated a moment: my answer, when it did come was objectionable: "I must keep in good health and not die.”
  Charlotte BrontĂ« 

Not leaving: an act of trust and love,
often deciphered by children”
  Markus Zusak,

“A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.”
  Carl Sandburg

“I want my kids to have the things in life that I never had when I was growing up. Things like beards and chest hair.”
  Jarod Kintz, 

“Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.”
  Oscar Wilde

“The way I wrestle five-year-olds makes me think if I were ever attacked by a pack of midgets, I’d be OK.
  Jarod Kintz
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“Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them”
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry


“Children aren't coloring books. You don't get to fill them with your favorite colors.”
  Khaled Hosseini

“Young people don't always do what they're told, but if they can pull it off and do something wonderful, sometimes they escape punishment. ”
  Rick Riordan


“Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.”
  Margaret Mead

“Schizoid behavior is a pretty common thing in children. It's accepted, because all we adults have this unspoken agreement that children are lunatics.”
  Stephen King

“Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy.”
  Robert A. Heinlein

“When God Created Mothers"

When the Good Lord was creating mothers, He was into His sixth day of "overtime" when the angel appeared and said. "You're doing a lot of fiddling around on this one."

And God said, "Have you read the specs on this order?" She has to be completely washable, but not plastic. Have 180 moveable parts...all replaceable. Run on black coffee and leftovers. Have a lap that disappears when she stands up. A kiss that can cure anything from a broken leg to a disappointed love affair. And six pairs of hands."

The angel shook her head slowly and said. "Six pairs of hands.... no way."

It's not the hands that are causing me problems," God remarked, "it's the three pairs of eyes that mothers have to have."

That's on the standard model?" asked the angel. God nodded.

One pair that sees through closed doors when she asks, 'What are you kids doing in there?' when she already knows. Another here in the back of her head that sees what she shouldn't but what she has to know, and of course the ones here in front that can look at a child when he goofs up and say. 'I understand and I love you' without so much as uttering a word."

God," said the angel touching his sleeve gently, "Get some rest tomorrow...."

I can't," said God, "I'm so close to creating something so close to myself. Already I have one who heals herself when she is sick...can feed a family of six on one pound of hamburger...and can get a nine year old to stand under a shower."

The angel circled the model of a mother very slowly. "It's too soft," she sighed.

But tough!" said God excitedly. "You can imagine what this mother can do or endure."

Can it think?"

Not only can it think, but it can reason and compromise," said the Creator.

Finally, the angel bent over and ran her finger across the cheek.

There's a leak," she pronounced. "I told You that You were trying to put too much into this model."

It's not a leak," said the Lord, "It's a tear."

What's it for?"

It's for joy, sadness, disappointment, pain, loneliness, and pride."

You are a genius, " said the angel.

Somberly, God said, "I didn't put it there.”
  Erma Bombeck,

“Critics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.”
  C.S. Lewis


“It's never too late to have a happy childhood.”
  Tom Robbins
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“When kids hit 1 year old, it's like hanging out with a miniature drunk. You have to hold onto them. They bump into things. They laugh and cry. They urinate. They vomit.”
  Johnny Depp

“Children are made readers on the laps of their parents.”
  Emilie Buchwald


“Grown ups are complicated creatures, full of quirks and secrets.”
  Roald Dahl

“Your children are the greatest gift God will give to you, and their souls the heaviest responsibility He will place in your hands. Take time with them, teach them to have faith in God. Be a person in whom they can have faith. When you are old, nothing else you've done will have mattered as much.”
Lisa Wingate





“You think the only people who are people, are the people who look and think like you. But if you walk the footsteps of a stranger, you'll learn things you never knew you never knew." - Pocahontas”
  Walt Disney Company


“Nothing you do for children is ever wasted.”
  Garrison Keillor,

“Children see magic because they look for it.”
  Christopher Moore,

“Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.”
  Marcus Tullius Cicero


“We may not be able to prepare the future for our children, but we can at least prepare our children for the future.”
  Franklin D. Roosevelt


“Accept the children the way we accept trees—with gratitude, because they are a blessing—but do not have expectations or desires. You don’t expect trees to change, you love them as they are.”
  Isabel Allende


“My daughter is seven, and some of the other second-grade parents complain that their children don't read for pleasure. When I visit their homes, the children's rooms are crammed with expensive books, but the parent's rooms are empty. Those children do not see their parents reading, as I did every day of my childhood. By contrast, when I walk into an apartment with books on the shelves, books on the bedside tables, books on the floor, and books on the toilet tank, then I know what I would see if I opened the door that says 'PRIVATE--GROWNUPS KEEP OUT': a child sprawled on the bed, reading.”
  Anne Fadiman


“Come away, O human child!
To the waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand,
For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.”
  W.B. Yeats,


“The soul is healed by being with children.”
  Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“So I began to think maybe it was true that when you were married and had children it was like being brainwashed, and afterward you went about as numb as a slave in a totalitarian state.”
  Sylvia Plath

“Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the sidewalk before it stops snowing.”
  Phyllis Diller

“Look at children. Of course they may quarrel, but generally speaking they do not harbor ill feelings as much or as long as adults do. Most adults have the advantage of education over children, but what is the use of an education if they show a big smile while hiding negative feelings deep inside? Children dont usually act in such a manner. If they feel angry with someone, they express it, and then it is finished. They can still play with that person the following day.”
  Dalai Lama XIV

“Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.”
  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“All children, except one, grow up. They soon know that they will grow up, and the way Wendy knew was this. One day when she was two years old she was playing in a garden, and she plucked another flower and ran with it to her mother. I suppose she must have looked rather delightful, for Mrs Darling put her hand to her heart and cried, ‘Oh, why can’t you remain like this for ever!’ This was all that passed between them on the subject, but henceforth Wendy knew that she must grow up. You always know after you are two. Two is the beginning of the end.”
  J.M. Barrie

“To terrify children with the image of hell, to consider women an inferior creation—is that good for the world?”
  Christopher Hitchens


“Anyone who does anything to help a child in his life is a hero to me. ”
  Fred Rogers


“You are always in my thoughts. When you were little, I knew your whereabouts at any given moment. Now that you are...off on your own, I still always know where you are, because I keep you in my heart.”
  Elizabeth Berg

“That's the nature of being a parent, Sabine has discovered. You'll love your children far more than you ever loved your parents, and -- in the recognition that your own children cannot fathom the depth of your love -- you come to understand the tragic, unrequited love of your own parents.”
  Ursula Hegi

“All children mythologise their birth. It is a universal trait. You want to know someone? Heart, mind and soul? Ask him to tell you about when he was born. What you get won’t be the truth: it will be a story. And nothing is more telling than a story. ”
  Diane Setterfield, 

“Your kids require you most of all to love them for who they are, not to spend your whole time trying to correct them.”
  Bill Ayers

“Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful.”
  Margaret Mead

“His name is Marcus: he is four and a half and possesses that deep gravity and seriousness that only small children and mountain gorillas have ever been able to master.”
  Neil Gaiman 

“If we are worried about the future, then we must look today at the upbringing of children.”
  Gordon B. Hinckley, 

“Rebel children, I urge you, fight the turgid slick of conformity with which they seek to smother your glory.”
  Russell Brand

Childhood is the world of miracle or of magic: it is as if creation rose luminously out of the night, all new and fresh and astonishing. Childhood is over the moment things are no longer astonishing. When the world gives you a feeling of "dĂ©jĂ  vu," when you are used to existence, you become an adult.
Eungene Io
 
Stay a child while you can be a child.
Stephen Sondhem

All of us have moments in out lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.
Erma Bombeck

Truly wonderful the mind of a child is.
Yoda, Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones
Old men can make war, but it is children who will make history.
Ray Merritt

The more we shelter children from every disappointment, the more devastating future disappointments will be.
Fred G. Gosman
 
I learn things from my kids constantly. Most of their knowledge comes from Snapple caps.
Jimmy Kimmel 

Self-esteem is the real magic wand that can form a child’s future. A child’s self-esteem affects every area of her existence, from friends she chooses, to how well she does academically in school, to what kind of job she gets, to even the person she chooses to marry.
Stephanie Martson

The family is both the fundamental unit of society as well as the root of culture. It ... is a perpetual source of encouragement, advocacy, assurance, and emotional refueling that empowers a child to venture with confidence into the greater world and to become all that he can be.
Marianne E. Neifer

Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth.
Erma Bombeck

Not having children makes less work—but it makes a quiet house.
Susan Glaspell
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Saturday 26 May 2012

MOST INTRESTING QUOTES ABOUT TODAY.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.
Albert Einstein


Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today's events.
Albert Einstein

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
Abraham Lincoln

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
Abraham Lincoln

Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life.
Dalai Lama

I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.
Mahatma Gandhi
Today we did what we had to do. They counted on America to be passive. They counted wrong.
Ronald Reagan

Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse.
Ronald Reagan

I love those who do not know how to live for today.
Friedrich Nietzsche


Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god; but who knows my god?
Friedrich Nietzsche

He who laughs best today, will also laughs last.
Friedrich Nietzsche

On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.
Friedrich Nietzsche 

 The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.
Henry David Thoreau


How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.
Henry David Thoreau

It is too late to be studying Hebrew; it is more important to understand even the slang of today.
Henry David Thoreau

See, that's nothing but blues, that's all I'm singing about. It's today's blues.
Jimi Hendrix

Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
Lord Chesterfield

Today was good. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one.
Dr. Seuss

One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.
Dale Carnegie

Today is life-the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto.
Dale Carnegie

Almost every way we make electricity today, except for the emerging renewables and nuclear, puts out CO2. And so, what we're going to have to do at a global scale, is create a new system. And so, we need energy miracles.
Bill Gates

What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We usually lose today, because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today.
Albert Camus

Only a philosophy of eternity, in the world today, could justify non-violence.
Albert Camus

Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.
Peter Drucker

The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?
Pablo Picasso

People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas.
Bob Dylan

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.
Marcus Aurelius

Tomorrow is nothing, today is too late; the good lived yesterday.
Marcus Aurelius
 
On September 11 2001, America felt its vulnerability even to threats that gather on the other side of the Earth. We resolved then, and we are resolved today, to confront every threat from any source that could bring sudden terror and suffering to America.
George W. Bush

What you come to discover is, it isn't how you get there, it's that you get there. If that's what it took to get me where I'm at today, so be it.
Charlie Sheen

Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.
Viktor E. Frankl

I do not believe there is a problem in this country or the world today which could not be settled if approached through the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount.
Harry S. Truman

No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday.
Alexander Pope

Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.
Leo Buscaglia
 
The bigotry question goes both ways. There's a lot more anti-Christian bigotry today than there is concerning the other side. None of it gets covered by the news media.
Newt Gingrich

As you know, I'm an immigrant. I came over here as an immigrant, and what gave me the opportunities, what made me to be here today, is the open arms of Americans. I have been received. I have been adopted by America.
Arnold Schwarzenegger

You know, nothing is more important than education, because nowhere are our stakes higher; our future depends on the quality of education of our children today.
Arnold Schwarzenegger

Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.
Malcolm X

Today the theory of evolution is about as much open to doubt as the theory that the earth goes round the sun.
Richard Dawkins

The greatest problem in the world today is intolerance. Everyone is so intolerant of each other.
Princess Diana

Today I can declare my hope and declare it from the bottom of my heart that we will eventually see the time when that number of nuclear weapons is down to zero and the world is a much better place.
Colin Powell

Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

May we not succumb to thoughts of violence and revenge today, but rather to thoughts of mercy and compassion. We are to love our enemies that they might be returned to their right minds.
Marianne Williamson

Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.
Og Mandino

Work as though you would live forever, and live as though you would die today. Go another mile!
Og Mandino

Nowadays it is the fashion to emphasize the horrors of the last war. I didn't find it so horrible. There are just as horrible things happening all round us today, if only we had eyes to see them.
Ludwig Wittgenstein

Today's misery is real unemployment, home foreclosures and bankruptcies. This is the Obama Misery Index and its at a record high. Its going to take more than new rhetoric to put Americans back to work - its going to take a new president.
Mitt Romney

We must always remember that America is a great nation today not because of what government did for people but because of what people did for themselves and for one another.
Richard M. Nixon

My concern today is not with the length of a person's hair but with his conduct.
Richard M. Nixon

Every major religion today is a winner in the Darwinian struggle waged among cultures, and none ever flourished by tolerating its rivals.
E. O. Wilson

Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.
Isaac Asimov

It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
Isaac Asimov

Today we affirm a new commitment to live out our nation's promise through civility, courage, compassion and character.
George W. Bush

The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.
Mignon McLaughlin

To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.
William Faulkner

Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.
Abdul Kalam

Get up tomorrow early in the morning, and earlier than you did today, and do the best that you can. Always stay near me, for tomorrow I will have much to do and more than I ever had, and tomorrow blood will leave my body above the breast.
Joan of Arc


Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.
Charles Spurgeon

It has been said that our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, but only empties today of its strength.
Charles Spurgeon

The Clinton White House today said they would start to give national security and intelligence briefings to George Bush. I don't know how well this is working out. Today after the first one Bush said, 'I've got one question: What color is the red phone?'
Bill Maher

Bill Gates is a very rich man today... and do you want to know why? The answer is one word: versions.
Dave Barry

Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it's open to anybody who owns hideous clothing.
Dave Barry

In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than is any other land.
Herbert Hoover

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
Les Brown

The only limits to the possibilities in your life tomorrow are the buts you use today.
Les Brown

The paradoxes of today are the prejudices of tomorrow, since the most benighted and the most deplorable prejudices have had their moment of novelty when fashion lent them its fragile grace.
Marcel Proust

Good executives never put off until tomorrow what they can get someone else to do today.
John C. Maxwell

Yesterday's home runs don't win today's games.
Babe Ruth

Today's accomplishments were yesterday's impossibilities.
Robert H. Schuller

It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.
Robert H. Schuller

Press on. Obstacles are seldom the same size tomorrow as they are today.
Robert H. Schuller
 
If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 60 years ago, a liberal 30 years ago and a racist today.
Thomas Sowell

The people made worse off by slavery were those who were enslaved. Their descendants would have been worse off today if born in Africa instead of America. Put differently, the terrible fate of their ancestors benefitted them.
Thomas Sowell

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.
Bertrand Russell

I never thought being obnoxious would get me where I am today.
Billie Joe Armstrong

There's something missing in the music industry today... and it's music. Songs you hear don't last, it's just product fed to you by the industry.
Jimmy Buffett

To describe my scarce leisure time in today's terms, I always default to reading.
Jimmy Buffett


How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
Michel de Montaigne

Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is God's gift, that's why we call it the present.
Joan Rivers

We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.
William James

I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.
James Joyce

If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven't done anything today.
Lou Holtz

If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 60 years ago, a liberal 30 years ago and a racist today.
Thomas Sowell

The people made worse off by slavery were those who were enslaved. Their descendants would have been worse off today if born in Africa instead of America. Put differently, the terrible fate of their ancestors benefitted them.
Thomas Sowell

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.
Bertrand Russell

I never thought being obnoxious would get me where I am today.
Billie Joe Armstrong

There's something missing in the music industry today... and it's music. Songs you hear don't last, it's just product fed to you by the industry.
Jimmy Buffett

To describe my scarce leisure time in today's terms, I always default to reading.
Jimmy Buffett


How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
Michel de Montaigne

Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is God's gift, that's why we call it the present.
Joan Rivers

We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.
William James

I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.
James Joyce

If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven't done anything today.
Lou Holtz

Government in the U.S. today is a senior partner in every business in the country.
Norman Cousins

Much of the messy advertising you see on television today is the product of committees. Committees can criticize advertisements, but they should never be allowed to create them.
David Ogilvy

Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened selfishness that today is at the basis of all human labor and effort, enterprise and new activity.
William Howard Taft

Today is yesterday's pupil.
Thomas Fuller

My advice to people today is as follows: if you take the game of life seriously, if you take your nervous system seriously, if you take your sense organs seriously, if you take the energy process seriously, you must turn on, tune in, and drop out.
Timothy Leary

Back then it was nothing like today. So you'd go to the bowling alley. We bowled and you could be in the back and you could make out, you know? And you know how hot it was to make out.
Steven Tyler


There are hundreds of millions of gun owners in this country, and not one of them will have an accident today. The only misuse of guns comes in environments where there are drugs, alcohol, bad parents, and undisciplined children. Period.
Ted Nugent

All an actor has is their blind faith that they are who they say they are today, in any scene.
Meryl Streep

I've never run into a guy who could win at the top level in anything today and didn't have the right attitude, didn't give it everything he had, at least while he was doing it; wasn't prepared and didn't have the whole program worked out.
Ted Turner

There's many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory but it is all hell.
William Tecumseh Sherman

There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell.
William Tecumseh Sherman

I know I had no hand in making this war, and I know I will make more sacrifices today than any of you to secure peace.
William Tecumseh Sherman

But I am convinced that those Jews who stand aside today with a malicious smile and with their hands in their trousers' pockets will also want to dwell in our beautiful home.
Theodor Herzl

Four years ago in speaking of a Jewish nation one ran the risk of being regarded ridiculous. Today he makes himself ridiculous who denies the existence of a Jewish nation.
Theodor Herzl

Those of us who are today prepared to hazard our lives for the cause would regret having raised a finger, if we were able to organize only a new social system and not a more righteous one.
Theodor Herzl

Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow in Australia.
Charles M. Schulz

There is a spiritual hunger in the world today - and it cannot be satisfied by better cars on longer credit terms.
Adlai E. Stevenson

Yesterday I was a dog. Today I'm a dog. Tomorrow I'll probably still be a dog. Sigh! There's so little hope for advancement.
Charles M. Schulz

Today, the notion of progress in a single line without goal or limit seems perhaps the most parochial notion of a very parochial century.
Lewis Mumford

Today, the degradation of the inner life is symbolized by the fact that the only place sacred from interruption is the private toilet.
Lewis Mumford
 
Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.
Marshall McLuhan

Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today's job with yesterday's tools and yesterday's concepts.
Marshall McLuhan

Today the tyrant rules not by club or fist, but disguised as a market researcher, he shepherds his flocks in the ways of utility and comfort.
Marshall McLuhan

Today it is not the classroom nor the classics which are the repositories of models of eloquence, but the ad agencies.
Marshall McLuhan

The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
Thomas Carlyle

Men, today we die a little.
Emil Zatopek


The athlete of today is not an athlete alone. He's the center of a team - doctors, scientists, coaches, agents and so on.
Emil Zatopek

If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
H. G. Wells

The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
H. G. Wells

During the Samuel Johnson days they had big men enjoying small talk; today we have small men enjoying big talk.
Fred Allen

America, which has the most glorious present still existing in the world today, hardly stops to enjoy it, in her insatiable appetite for the future.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

I mean, we've built a lot of products that we think are good, and will help people share photos and share videos and write messages to each other. But it's really all about how people are spreading Facebook around the world in all these different countries. And that's what's so amazing about the scale that it's at today.
Mark Zuckerberg

Today more Americans are imprisoned for drug offenses than for property crimes.
George Will

What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
Ralph Marston

The same thing happened today that happened yesterday, only to different people.
Walter Winchell

When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy; today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury themselves waist deep in tidings, and by and large what they see and hear makes them unutterably sad.
E. B. White

Today's gossip is tomorrow's headline.
Walter Winchell

Glorify who you are today, do not condemn who you were yesterday, and dream of who you can be tomorrow.
Neale Donald Walsch

With all the knowledge and skill acquired in thousands of flights in the last ten years, I would hardly think today of making my first flight on a strange machine in a twenty-seven mile wind, even if I knew that the machine had already been flown and was safe.
Orville Wright

Today is a most unusual day, because we have never lived it before; we will never live it again; it is the only day we have.
William Arthur Ward