quotes about being strong and moving on

There are three things in my life which I really love: God, my family, and baseball. The only problem - once baseball season starts, I change the order around a bit. ~Al Gallagher, 1971



Children don't read to find their identity, to free themselves from guilt, to quench the thirst for rebellion or to get rid of alienation. They have no use for psychology.... They still believe in God, the family, angels, devils, witches, goblins, logic, clarity, punctuation, and other such obsolete stuff.... When a book is boring, they yawn openly. They don't expect their writer to redeem humanity, but leave to adults such childish illusions. ~Isaac Bashevis Singer



Bulldogs are adorable, with faces like toads that have been sat on. ~Colette



Racial injustice, war, urban blight, and environmental rape have a common denominator in our exploitative economic system. ~Channing E. Phillips, speech, Washington, D.C., 22 April 1970



Historian: A broad-gauge gossip. ~Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary



In all that surrounds him the egotist sees only the frame of his own portrait. ~J. Petit-Senn



98% of all statistics are made up. ~Author Unknown



Love is often gentle, desire always a rage. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



History is a jangle of accidents, blunders, surprises and absurdities, and so is our knowledge of it, but if we are to report it at all we must impose some order upon it. ~Henry Steele Commanger, The Nature and the Study of History



A dog is much like a married man, obeying his master's voice for the sake of his master's touch. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent. ~Victor Hugo



Every mother hopes that her daughter will marry a better man than she did, and is convinced that her son will never find a wife as good as his father did. ~Martin Andersen-Nex�



To send a letter is a good way to go somewhere without moving anything but your heart. ~Phyllis Theroux



Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing. ~Phyllis Diller



Dopeler effect: The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly. ~Author unknown, supposedly from a Washington Post reader submission word contest in which readers were asked to alter a word by adding, subtracting, or changing one letter and supply a new definition



Quote A: �A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.� ~Miguel de Cervantes



A relationship is a loving bond between two people, and a threesome can take the edge off that. ~Coupling, "Jane and the Truth Snake," original airdate 1 October 2001, written by Steven Moffat, spoken by the character Patrick



Sharp nostalgia, infinite and terrible, for what I already possess. ~Juan Ramon Jimenez



If one truly has lost hope, one would not be on hand to say so. ~Eric Bentley



Be God or let God. ~Author Unknown