quotes for a tattoo

The truest expression of a people is in its dance and in its music. Bodies never lie. ~Agnes de Mille



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



My eleven year old daughter mopes around the house all day waiting for her breasts to grow. ~Bill Cosby



God: The most popular scapegoat for our sins. ~Mark Twain



Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing. ~Phyllis Diller



I have seen women walk right past a TV set with a football game on and - this always amazes me - not stop to watch, even if the TV is showing replays of what we call a "good hit," which is a tackle that causes at least one major internal organ to actually fly out of a player's body. ~Dave Barry



While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered beasts, how can we expect any ideal conditions on this earth? ~George Bernard Shaw



Soon I will be an old, white-haired lady, into whose lap someone places a baby, saying, "Smile, Grandma!" - I, who myself so recently was photographed on my grandmother's lap. ~Liv Ullmann



There are whole years for which I hope I'll never be cross-examined, for I could not give an alibi. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



Call on God, but row away from the rocks. ~Indian Proverb Calling fishing a hobby is like calling brain surgery a job. ~Paul Schullery



The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it. ~Author unknown, sometimes attributed to W.M. Lewis



Nature never goes out of style. ~Author Unknown



The... patient should be made to understand that he or she must take charge of his own life. Don't take your body to the doctor as if he were a repair shop. ~Quentin Regestein



Those who never rebelled against God or at some point in their lives shaken their fists in the face of heaven, have never encountered God at all. ~Catherine Marshall, Christy, 1967



When angry, count four; when very angry, swear. ~Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson, 1894



Life is full of obstacle illusions. ~Grant Frazier



"I am" is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that "I do" is the longest sentence? ~Author Unknown



The unique impression of Jesus upon mankind - whose name is not so much written as ploughed into the history of the world - is proof of the subtle virtue of this infusion. Jesus belonged to the race of prophets. He saw with open eyes the mystery of the soul. One man was true to what is in you and me. He, as I think, is the only soul in history who has appreciated the worth of man. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity. ~William Penn For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity. ~William Penn



I personally believe we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain. ~Jane Wagner