happy birthday quotes for mom

History is the story of the magnificent rear-guard action fought during several thousand years by dogma against curiosity. ~Robert S. Lynd



God has entrusted me with myself. ~Epictetus



Words are the physicians of a mind diseased. ~Aeschylus



Difficult things take a long time, impossible things a little longer. ~Andre A. Jackson



Nature is neutral. Man has wrested from nature the power to make the world a desert or to make the deserts bloom. There is no evil in the atom; only in men's souls. ~Adlai Stevenson



They may talk of a comet, or a burning mountain, or some such bagatelle; but to me a modest woman, dressed out in all her finery, is the most tremendous object of the whole creation. ~Oliver Goldsmith



If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die. ~Maya Angelou



Bottle feeding also made a fetish out of cleanliness, and maybe all the washing and scrubbing has further reduced the pleasure we take in our body and in life. ~Author Unknown



Drinking and driving: there are stupider things, but it's a very short list. ~Author Unknown



Hate the sin and love the sinner. ~Mohandas Gandhi



A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver. ~Proverbs 25:11



Luxury... corrupts at once rich and poor, the rich by possession and the poor by covetousness. ~Rousseau, The Social Contract, 1762



Be God or let God. ~Author Unknown



A living planet is a much more complex metaphor for deity than just a bigger father with a bigger fist. If an omniscient, all-powerful Dad ignores your prayers, it's taken personally. Hear only silence long enough, and you start wondering about his power. His fairness. His very existence. But if a world mother doesn't reply, Her excuse is simple. She never claimed conceited omnipotence. She has countless others clinging to her apron strings, including myriad species unable to speak for themselves. To Her elder offspring She says - go raid the fridge. Go play outside. Go get a job. Or, better yet, lend me a hand. I have no time for idle whining. ~David Brin



People ask why I skip and I give the incomparable reason of "why not?" ~Author unknown, as posted on iskip.com



Instead of complaining that the rosebush is full of thorns, be happy that the thorn bush has roses. ~Proverb



Yes, to be a good parent, you have to sacrifice, but this is not a requirement of parenting, it is a requirement of being good at something. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



We do have a zeal for laughter in most situations, give or take a dentist. ~Joseph Heller



The value of moments, when cast up, is immense, if well employed; if thrown away, their loss is irrevocable. ~Lord Chesterfield



The history of man for the nine months preceding his birth would, probably, be far more interesting and contain events of greater moment than all the three score and ten years that follow it. ~Samuel Taylor Coleridge