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Family Quotes

We are getting rid of our old family homepage. Here are some of the quotes and sayings frome that old site...

That’s even more fun than blowing up a potato in the microwave. (Nicole Heymann after reading too much Calvin and Hobbes)

· Philip had just come to live with us. Nicole asks: Daddy, do you think Philip believes in Buddha? No, I don’t think so—he is too young. That’s good! Then he doesn’t have to switch Gods. (Nicole)


Chinese Proverbs (about anything)

· The man who waits for a roast duck to fly into his mouth, waits a very long time

· Man who run behind cars get exhausted. Man who run in front of car get tired.

· Man who live in glass house should change in basement.

· How can you expect to find ivory in a dog's mouth?

· An inch of time is an inch of gold but you can't buy that inch of time with an inch of gold.

· There are always ears on the other side of the wall.

· Without rice, even the cleverest housewife cannot cook.

· Your fingers can't be of the same length.



Misc

·
lie low, go slow, keep cool. More men are killed by over-work than the
importance of this world justifies. The Phantom Rickshaw

·
Fear grows out of things we think, it lives in our minds. Compassion
grows out of the things we are, and lives in our hearts. Barbara
Garrison

· An English professor wrote the words A woman without her man is nothing on the blackboard and directed the students to punctuate it correctly. The men wrote A woman, without her man, is nothing, the women wrote A woman: without her, man is nothing.

· One of the many incredible lines from the Lord of the Rings: Frodo: I wish none of this had happened.Gandalf: So do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.— Gandalf in Lord of the Rings I.

· How can you say there are too many children in the world? That’s like saying there are too many flowers! - Mother Teresa.

· Go out on a limb. That is where the fruit is.— Will Rogers.

·
Courage is resistance to fear mastery of fear, not the absence of fear.
Except a creature be part coward, it is not a compliment to say it is
brave.— Mark Twain.

· Twenty years from now you will be more
disappointed by the things you did not do than by the things you did
do. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your
sails. Explore, dream, discover.— Mark Twain.

· There is one thing that is stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come.— Victor Hugo.

· Determine that the thing can and will be done. And then we will find a way.— Abraham Lincoln.



Einstein quotes

·
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the
source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a
stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as
good as dead: his eyes are closed.

· I want to know God's thoughts. The rest are details.

· Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

· Try not to become a man of success, but rather a man of value.

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