quotes on opportunity

To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring. ~George Santayana



I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than be crowded on a velvet cushion. ~Henry David Thoreau



I want to reach that condensation of sensations that constitutes a picture. ~Henri Matisse, Notes d'un peintre, 1908



Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy. ~Robert A. Heinlein



Did you hear about the baby born with organs of both sexes? It had a penis and a brain. ~Author Unknown



So I began to think maybe it was true that when you were married and had children it was like being brainwashed, and afterward you went about as numb as a slave in a totalitarian state. ~Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar, Chapter 7



A teacher's purpose is not to create students in his own image, but to develop students who can create their own image. ~Author Unknown



Some mothers are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together. ~Pearl S. Buck



There are many wonderful things that will never be done if you do not do them. ~Charles D. Gill



Get a bicycle. You will not regret it if you live. ~Mark Twain, "Taming the Bicycle"



Man endures pain as an undeserved punishment; woman accepts it as a natural heritage. ~Author Unknown



To put the world right in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must first put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must first cultivate our personal life; we must first set our hearts right. ~Confucius



The eloquent man is he who is no beautiful speaker, but who is inwardly and desperately drunk with a certain belief. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journals, 1845



Prejudice is the child of ignorance. ~William Hazlitt



Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love. ~Albert Einstein



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



The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering. ~Benjamin Spock, Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care



Technology presumes there's just one right way to do things and there never is. ~Robert M. Pirsig



Women seem to be all right on bargains till it comes to picking out a husband. ~Kin Hubbard



There are two theories on hitting the knuckleball. Unfortunately, neither of them work. ~Charlie Lau, 1982