"We never know the love of our parents until we have become parents."


Henry Ward Beecher
American Clergyman, 19th Century


And we never know how crazy we will drive our children until our own parents retire, move to a smaller place, whine about missing their grandchildren, and somehow find our new phone number that was supposed to be unlisted!

"Life is way too serious to be taken too seriously."

Gunars Neiders



"The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one."

Elbert Hubbard


had to proofread that last one several times, I was so afraid of spelling something wrong...

no idea who either gentlemen is, or even if they are gentlemen, but I'll get back to you with the details...

"Where there is love, there is life."

Mahatma Gandhi

"Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire."

George Bernard Shaw

"Life is what happens to you
While you're busy making other plans "

John Lennon, Beautiful Boy

"Do not look back in anger, or forward in fear, but around in awareness."

James Thurber

“… every man is part of the bridge between the past and the future, and must feel how it stretches out both ways before him and behind him.”

C. Walter Hodges, The Namesake: A Story of King Alfred

not that I know who ol' King Alfred is/was, but it's a good start as far as quotes go....