quotes about me being me

Newfoundland dogs are good to save children from drowning, but you must have a pond of water handy and a child, or else there will be no profit in boarding a Newfoundland. ~Josh Billings



Men will always delight in a woman whose voice is lined with velvet. ~Brendan Francis



I won't eat anything that has intelligent life, but I'd gladly eat a network executive or a politician. ~Marty Feldman



You can as easily love without trusting as you can hug without embracing. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



To those with ears to hear, libraries are really very noisy places. On their shelves we hear the captured voices of the centuries-old conversation that makes up our civilization. ~Timothy Healy



You will always be your child's favorite toy. ~Vicki Lansky, Trouble-Free Travel with Children, 1991



The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness. ~Norman Cousins



God respects me when I work; but God loves me when I sing. ~Rabindranath Tagore



Curling rocks! ~Saying of the sport



How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard. ~From the movie Annie How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard. ~From the movie Annie



This morning, prompted by increasing concerns about terrorism, oil prices reached a record high as the cost of a barrel of crude is a whopping $44.34. Wow, it seems shocking that a product of finite supply gets more expensive the more we use it. Now the terror alert means higher oil prices, which oddly enough means higher profits for oil companies giving them more money to give to politicians whose policies may favor the oil companies such as raising the terror alert level. As Simba once told us: "It's the circle of life." ~Jon Stewart



The easiest way to save face is to keep the lower half shut. ~Author Unknown



Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history. ~Plato, Ion



Please be patient. God has not finished with me yet. ~Author Unknown



Worry, doubt, fear and despair are the enemies which slowly bring us down to the ground and turn us to dust before we die. ~Attributed to Douglas MacArthur



On every stem, on every leaf,... and at the root of everything that grew, was a professional specialist in the shape of grub, caterpillar, aphis, or other expert, whose business it was to devour that particular part. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes



All the statistics in the world can't measure the warmth of a smile. ~Chris Hart



Man stands in his own shadow and wonders why it's dark. ~Zen Proverb



Junk mail, junk food, our society is full of junk living, period. ~Carrie Latet



These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves. From each of them goes out its own voice... and just as the touch of a button on our set will fill the room with music, so by taking down one of these volumes and opening it, one can call into range the voice of a man far distant in time and space, and hear him speaking to us, mind to mind, heart to heart. ~Gilbert Highet