Archived Quotes

The end of the human race

will be that it will eventually die of civilization.

Legislation is meaningful only when it empowers people.

Only I can change my life.

No one can do it for me

Carol Burnett

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful,

committed citizens can change the world.

Indeed,

it is the only thing that ever has.

Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets.

It does not matter how you came into the world,

what matters is that you are here.

If you have a garden and a library,

you have everything you need.

We owe them a debt we can never repay.

Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.

Be courteous to all,

but intimate with few,

and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

Your work is to discover your world

and then with all your heart give yourself to it.

I've heard there are troubles of more than one kind;

some come from ahead,

and some come from behind.

But I've brought a big bat.

I'm all ready, you see,

now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!

My lyrics aren't offensive.

Some people find everything offensive.

You're never too old,

too wacky,

too wild,

to pick up a book and read to a child.

My name is on that building.

A lot of Thanksgiving days

have been ruined by not

carving the turkey

in the kitchen.

A man's friendships

are one of the best

measures of his worth.

A man’s mind,

stretched by a new idea,

never regains its original size.

My mother never breast fed me,

she told me she only liked me as a friend.

I’d rather regret the risks that didn’t work out than

the chances I didn’t take at all.