good quotes for teenagers

The student has his Rome, his Florence, his whole glowing Italy, within the four walls of his library. He has in his books the ruins of an antique world and the glories of a modern one. ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow



Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything. ~Charles Kuralt, On the Road With Charles Kuralt



When we heal the earth, we heal ourselves. ~David Orr



Have the courage to live. Anyone can die. ~Robert Cody Have you ever been hurt and the place tries to heal a bit, and you just pull the scar off of it over and over again. ~Rosa Parks



Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary. ~Mark Twain



Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want. ~Joseph Wood Krutch



We saw the lightning and that was the guns and then we heard the thunder and that was the big guns; and then we heard the rain falling and that was the blood falling; and when we came to get in the crops, it was dead men that we reaped. ~Harriet Tubman



Looking back on a happy life, one realizes that one was not happy all the time. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through. ~Jonathan Swift, A Critical Essay upon the Faculties of the Mind, 1707



The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., The Professor at the Breakfast-Table



Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them. ~Marcel Proust



She watched and taught the girls that sang at their embroidery frames while the great silk flowers grew from their needles. ~Louise Jordan Miln, The Feast of Lanterns



Reading means borrowing. ~Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, Aphorisms



The husband who doesn't tell his wife everything probably reasons that what she doesn't know won't hurt him. ~Leo J. Burke



I find television to be very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go in the other room and read a book. ~Groucho Marx



Golf is a game in which the ball lies poorly and the players well. ~Art Rosenbaum



Politics, n: Poly "many" + tics "blood-sucking parasites" ~Larry Hardiman



The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course. ~Michelangelo



A signature always reveals a man's character - and sometimes even his name. ~Evan Esar



Hypocrite: the man who murdered both his parents... pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan. ~Abraham Lincoln