love poems for parents

We are not proving ourselves spiritually worthy of our material progress. We have not been neighborly, courteous, and kind upon the highway. Our lack of decency toward our fellow men is a definite black mark against us. ~Cary T. Grayson



I may be justifying my pockets of chaos, but I will always choose people over perfection and the heart over task and tidy. ~Betsy Canas Garmon, www.wildthymecreative.com



Not to be born at all would be the best thing for man, never to behold the sun's scorching rays; but if one is born, then one is to press as quickly as possible to the portals of Hades, and rest there under the earth. ~Thiognis



It's been told that swimming is a wimp sport, but I don't see it. We don't get timeouts, in the middle of a race we can't stop and catch our breath, we can't roll on our stomachs and lie there, and we can't ask for a substitution. ~Dusty Hicks



When I go out into the countryside and see the sun and the green and everything flowering, I say to myself Yes indeed, all that belongs to me! ~Henri Rousseau



God's mill grinds slow, but sure. ~George Herbert



Television should be the last mass communication medium to be naively designed and put into the world without a surgeon-general's warning. ~Alan Kay



It is the nature of mortals to kick a fallen man. ~Aeschylus, Agamemnon



What mountains of dead ashes, wreck and burnt bones, does assiduous pedantry dig up from the past time and name it History. ~Thomas Carlyle



I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self. ~Martin Luther



I want to spend the rest of my life with the woman at the end of that table there, but that does not stop me wanting to see several thousand more naked bottoms before I die, because that's what being a bloke is. When man invented fire, he didn't say, "Hey, let's cook." He said, "Great, now we can see naked bottoms in the dark." As soon as Caxton invented the printing press, we were using it to make pictures of, hey, naked bottoms! We have turned the Internet into an enormous international database of naked bottoms. So you see, the story of male achievement through the ages, feeble though it may have been, has been the story of our struggle to get a better look at your bottoms. ~Coupling, "Inferno," original airdate 2 June 2000, written by Steven Moffat, spoken by the character Steve



A man might pass for insane who should see things as they are. ~William Ellery Channing



One certainly has a soul; but how it came to allow itself to be enclosed in a body is more than I can imagine. I only know if once mine gets out, I'll have a bit of a tussle before I let it get in again to that of any other. ~Lord Byron



Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit. ~Hosea Ballou



One is a member of a country, a profession, a civilization, a religion. One is not just a man. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Wartime Writings 1939-1944, translated from French by Norah Purcell



Fort Yuma is probably the hottest place on earth. The thermometer stays at one hundred and twenty in the shade there all the time - except when it varies and goes higher. It is a U.S. military post, and its occupants get so used to the terrific heat that they suffer without it. There is a tradition... that a very, very wicked soldier died there, once, and of course, went straight to the hottest corner of perdition, - and the next day he telegraphed back for his blankets. ~Mark Twain, Roughing It, 1872, chapter LVI



History is merely gossip. ~Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan



Whoever said you can't buy happiness forgot little puppies. ~Gene Hill



I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants. ~A. Whitney Brown



It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes. ~Sally Field