quotes about children growing up

Poetry is to philosophy what the Sabbath is to the rest of the week. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827



It wasn't until quite late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say "I don't know!" ~Somerset Maugham



A woman's mink coat represents the sacrifice of a lot of little animals, including her husband. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



Fame - the aggregate of all the misunderstandings that collect around a new name. ~Rainer Maria Rilke



Baseball is too much of a sport to be a business and too much of a business to be a sport. ~Phillip Wrigley



May you live all the days of your life. ~Irish blessing, also attributed to Jonathan Swift



I just think it's important to be direct and honest with people about why you're photographing them and what you're doing. After all, you are taking some of their soul. ~Mary Ellen Mark



From our ancestors come our names, but from our virtues our honors. ~Proverb



An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them. ~Stephen Fry



Ford's success has startled the country, almost the world, financially, industrially, mechanically. It exhibits in higher degree than most persons would have thought possible the seemingly contradictory requirements of true efficiency, which are: constant increase of quality, great increase of pay to the workers, repeated reduction in cost to the consumer. And with these appears, as at once cause and effect, an absolutely incredible enlargement of output reaching something like one hundredfold in less than ten years, and an enormous profit to the manufacturer. ~Charles Buxton Going



Where liberty dwells, there is my country. ~Benjamin Franklin



Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting and autumn a mosaic of them all. ~Stanley Horowitz



You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money. ~P.J. O'Rourke, A Parliament of Whores



Light gives of itself freely, filling all available space. It does not seek anything in return; it asks not whether you are friend or foe. It gives of itself and is not thereby diminished. ~Michael Strassfeld



The cat is the only animal without visible means of support who still manages to find a living in the city. ~Carl van Vechten



What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies. ~Aristotle



I'm tough, I'm ambitious, and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, okay. ~Madonna Ciccone



This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. ~George Bernard Shaw



People who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours with them. ~Dave Barry



Do not regret growing older. It is a privilege denied to many. ~Author Unknown