quotes for children

Living in this modern toxic world, we are all slowly being poisoned to death. ~Carrie Latet



John Hancock: "And we will call that country the United States of America."



Before me, even as behind, God is, and all is well. ~John Greenleaf Whittier



Teach us to say: "I will arise." ~Richard Le Gallienne



What a commentary on civilization, when being alone is being suspect; when one has to apologize for it, make excuses, hide the fact that one practices it - like a secret vice. ~Anne Morrow Lindbergh



Hate the sin and love the sinner. ~Mohandas Gandhi



When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why. ~Katharine Whitehorn, "Nought for Homework," Roundabout, 1962



The point to remember is that what the government gives it must first take away. ~John S. Coleman, address, Detroit Chamber of Commerce, 1956



I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief.... For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free. ~Wendell Berry, "The Peace of Wild Things"



Performing enhancing drugs are banned in the Olympics. Okay, we can swing with that. But performance debilitating drugs should not be banned. Smoke a joint and win the hundred meters, fair play to you. That's pretty damn good. Unless someone's dangling a Mars bar off in the distance. ~Eddie Izzard



Air quotes: the action of using one's fingers to make quotation marks in the air during speech; often used to express some degree of satire, sarcasm, irony, or euphemism.



We have too many high sounding words and too few actions that correspond with them. ~Abigail Adams



We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey. ~Kenji Miyazawa



My perspective of veganism was most affected by learning that the veal calf is a by-product of dairying, and that in essence there is a slice of veal in every glass of what I had thought was an innocuous white liquid - milk. ~Rynn Berry, quoted in Joanne Stepaniak, The Vegan Sourcebook, 1998



Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it. ~Author Unknown



If you will protest courageously, and yet with dignity and Christian love, when the history books are written in future generations, the historians will have to pause and say, "There lived a great people - a black people - who injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization." This is our challenge and our overwhelming responsibility. ~Martin Luther King, Jr.



Good communication is just as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after. ~Anne Morrow Lindbergh



There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousands truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet; but we are shut up to them, and so they bring us nothing, but sit and sing awhile upon the roof, and then fly away. ~Henry Ward Beecher



There's a standard formula for success in the entertainment medium, and that is: "Beat it to death if it succeeds." ~Ernie Kovacs



I believe in God, but I'm not too clear on the other details. ~Bill Veeck