Writer's Block: Words to Live By

[annafugazzi]

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No! I have six :)

• There is more to a human being than the worst thing he has ever done.
  -- This is either St. Francis of Assisi, or Mother Teresa, or Jesus, or somebody else. I have never been able to pin it down.
  
  
• It was once said that the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.
  -- Hubert Humphrey
  
  
• If his words hold wisdom and his philosophy is honorable, what does it matter if he returns? What is important is that we follow his teachings. Perhaps the words are more important than the man.
  -- Kahless in ST:TNG "Rightful Heir"
  
  
• Two great things you can give your children: one is roots, the other is wings.
  -- Hodding Carter
  
  
• Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot,
  Nothing is going to get better. It's not.
  -- The Lorax, Dr. Seuss
  
  
• (at a homeschooling chat night)
  Mom #1: ...and our house is the yellow one at the end of the street. We're known as 'the weird ones' on our street.
  Mom #2: Honey, we're all 'the weird ones' on our street.

Comments

[waterbird.livejournal.com]

I especially like the first one. I've been wanting to believe it all week.

[annafugazzi.livejournal.com]

Sounds like not such a good week...

I reminded myself of that a lot in my previous job. I worked in a prison.

[twilightsorcery.livejournal.com]

Two great things you can give your children: one is roots, the other is wings.
-- Hodding Carter

I misread "roots" as "robots" and got all excited. D'oh! Oh, well. My kids are totally getting robots and wings. Possibly also robots *with* wings.

<-- is nerd

That top one isn't Jesus, at least not from the New Testament. It sounds closer to Mother Theresa than St. Francis, which would also explain how it escaped Bartlett's, which was published in 1919.

*searches through quotations file to return the favor* Ah, here we go:

It is necessary for the welfare of society that genius should be privileged to utter sedition, to blaspheme, to outrage good taste, to corrupt the youthful mind, and generally to scandalize one's uncles.

- George Bernard Shaw

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