“Q: Why are we violent but not illiterate?
A: Because we are taught to read.”


David Allan

"The most revolutionary thing anybody can do is to raise good, honest and generous children who will question the answers of people who say the answer is violence."


Colman McCarthy
(my new Hero)

"Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics, I assure you that mine are greater."


Albert Einstein

"Everything was beautiful, and nothing hurt."

"We're terrible animals. I think that the Earth's immune system is trying to get rid of us, as well it should."

"Perhaps, when we remember wars, we should take off our clothes and paint ourselves blue and go on all fours all day long and grunt like pigs. That would surely be more appropriate than noble oratory and shows of flags and well-oiled guns. "

"Go take a flying **** at a rolling doughnut,"

"If you can do no good, at least do no harm."

"...[freedom of speech] isn't something somebody else gives you. That's something you give to yourself. "

"You realize, of course, that everything I say is horseshit. "

"So it goes."



Thank you, Mr. Vonnegut, for the inspiring, shocking, blessing magic of your life and work.

"Many people go far in life because someone else thought they would."


John Maxwell

"It is important, when death finds you, that it finds you alive..."



Anonymous

Thanks, Livvy

"Guns don't kill people. People with moustaches kill people."



Anonymous/T-shirt

"In raising my children, I have lost my mind but found my soul."


Lisa T. Shepherd



"Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't."


Pete Seeger



borrowed without asking, but with the best of intentions, from:
http://doihavetocallitablog.blogspot.com/

"The tongue is mightier than the blade."

Euripides

wow

http://postsecret.blogspot.com/

not exactly all famous, inspiring quotes, but still....

"Sometimes, paper is the only thing that will listen."


on the wall in Ms. B___'s 7th grade class

"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....