quotes and sayings about sisters

Until mountain biking came along, the bike scene was ruled by a small elite cadre of people who seemed allergic to enthusiasm. ~Jacquie Phelan



My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular. ~Adlai Stevenson, speech, Detroit, 1952



Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort. ~Mason Cooley



El tiempo da buen consejo. ~Proverb



And Man created the plastic bag and the tin and aluminum can and the cellophane wrapper and the paper plate, and this was good because Man could then take his automobile and buy all his food in one place and He could save that which was good to eat in the refrigerator and throw away that which had no further use. And soon the earth was covered with plastic bags and aluminum cans and paper plates and disposable bottles and there was nowhere to sit down or walk, and Man shook his head and cried: "Look at this Godawful mess." ~Art Buchwald, 1970



A great name for a new country song: If I'd Shot You Sooner, I'd Be Out of Jail by Now. ~Author Unknown



If you have one eye on yesterday, and one eye on tomorrow, you're going to be cockeyed today. ~Author Unknown



Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to. ~Bill Vaughn



It is always in the midst, in the epicenter, of your troubles that you find serenity. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Wartime Writings 1939-1944, translated from French by Norah Purcell



The cat could very well be man's best friend but would never stoop to admitting it. ~Doug Larson



We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey. ~Kenji Miyazawa



To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation, and kept the planets in their places. ~Wendell Phillips, Orations, Speeches, Lectures and Letters



Dreams, and predictions of astrology.... ought to serve but for winter talk by the fireside. ~Francis Bacon, "Of Prophecies"



Jack Palance: "Do you know what the secret of life is? One thing. Just one thing. You stick to that and everything else don't mean shit."



And the Easter bells be ringing! ~Edna Dean Proctor, "Easter Bells"



Psychology doesn't address the soul; that's something else. ~David Chase, The Sopranos, "Pilot," original airdate 10 January 1999, spoken by the character Carmela Soprano



I'd rather have a goddam horse. A horse is at least human, for God's sake. ~J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye



Death is a release from the impressions of sense, and from impulses that make us their puppets, from the vagaries of the mind, and the hard service of the flesh. ~Marcus Aurelius, Meditations



The doctor may also learn more about the illness from the way the patient tells the story than from the story itself. ~James B. Herrick



Our tradition is that of the first man who sneaked away to the creek when the tribe did not really need fish. ~Roderick Haig-Brown, about modern fishing, A River Never Sleeps, 1946