mothers day poems from kids

When a man says to me, "I have the intensest love of nature," at once I know that he has none. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journals, 1857



What is being lost is the magic of the word. I am not an image person. Imagery belongs to another civilization: the caveman. Caveman couldn't express himself so he put images on walls. ~Elie Wiesel, 1995



There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true. ~Winston Churchill There are always three sides to every story: your side, the other side, and the truth. ~Author Unknown



I'm a curling addict - I need a hit, and I want to get stoned! ~Author Unknown



If you feel that you have both feet planted on level ground, then the university has failed you. ~Robert Goheen, Time, 23 June 1961



The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn. ~David Russell



Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is. ~Maxim Gorky



We are born princes and the civilizing process makes us frogs. ~Syrus



We have long had death and taxes as the two standards of inevitability. But there are those who believe that death is the preferable of the two. "At least," as one man said, "there's one advantage about death; it doesn't get worse every time Congress meets." ~Erwin N. Griswold



The idea that God is an oversized white male with a flowing beard who sits in the sky and tallies the fall of every sparrow is ludicrous. But if by 'God' one means the set of physical laws that govern the universe, then clearly there is such a God. This God is emotionally unsatisfying... it does not make much sense to pray to the law of gravity. ~Carl Sagan



If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe. ~Carl Sagan



Grown don't mean nothing to a mother. A child is a child. They get bigger, older, but grown? What's that suppose to mean? In my heart it don't mean a thing. ~Toni Morrison, Beloved, 1987



It is an old habit with theologians to beat the living with the bones of the dead. ~Robert G. Ingersoll



Naturally, the neurotic wants you to love him twice as much, for he's going to cut it in half anyway. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



Strange to say what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition. ~Samuel Pepys



There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls. ~Aeschylus



Black people dominate sports in the United States - 20 percent of the population and 90 percent of the Final Four. We own this shit. Basketball, baseball, football, golf, tennis, and as soon as they make a heated hockey rink we'll take that shit too. ~Chris Rock



Poets are soldiers that liberate words from the steadfast possession of definition. ~Eli Khamarov, The Shadow Zone



Fear cannot take what you do not give it. ~Christopher Coan



The trouble with simple living is that, though it can be joyful, rich, and creative, it isn't simple. ~Doris Janzen Longacre