Favorite Quotes

I love a good quote. What are some of ya'lls favorite quotes?

"The few, the proud, the Marines." yup, my dad was a marine, and I'll be one if he dont make me;) . I plan to go to either the Citadel or Parris Island.

Here is one of my favorites(kinda militaryish....but it does not have to be :)):

"A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."
-John Stuart Mill

i saw this quote today and liked it a lot:

"It takes a warm heart to care for the cold-blooded."
-Unknown

Great quote emily :)

I also like Walt Whitman quotes....I enjoy reading his works.

Here are a few:

"I celebrate myself, and what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. I loafe and invite my soul, I lean and loafe at my ease... observing a spear of summer grass."

"I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars."

"Every moment of light and dark is a miracle."

"After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains."

One of my favorites is in my signature :)

'gypsy gold does not chink or glitter,
it gleams in the sun and neighs in the dark'

-old gypsy saying refering to the gypsy vanner horse.

one of my favorite horses, incidentially.

"Alot of people give some and some people give alot"- I dunno who said it

"This Buds for you"

"Every morning in Africa, when a gazelle wakes up it knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed...

Every morning in Africa, when a lion wakes up it knows it must outrun the slowest gazelle or it will starve to death...

It doesn't matter whether you're a lion or a gazelle. When the sun comes up, you'd better be running."

- unknown

-And-

"I hope you still feel small when you stand beside the ocean
Whenever one door closes I hope one more opens
Promise me that you'll give faith the fighting chance
And when you get the choice to sit it out or dance...

I hope you dance."

- Lee Ann Womack

"The man who thinks he can & the man who thinks he can't are both right. Which one are you?"

~ Unknown

"and were off like a heard of turtles"

-unknown, but i do know my mom got it from my grandpa.

My favorites...

"Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to
play with your hair." Kahil Gibran

“If you wish to make an apple pie truly from scratch, you must first invent the
universe.” Carl Sagan

...and my signature quote. :)

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Originally Posted by khara

"Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to
play with your hair." Kahil Gibran

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Kahlil Gibran is awesome!!! :judge:

K~

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People are often unreasonable, illogical and self-centered; forgive them anyway.

If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives; be kind anyway.

If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some true enemies; succeed anyway.

If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you; be honest and frank anyway.

What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight; build anyway.

If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous; be happy anyway.

The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow; do good anyway.

Give the world your best and it may never be enough; give the world your best anyway.

You see, in the final analysis, it is between you and God; it was never between you and them anyway.

PEACE COMES FROM WITHIN!!!!

~ Mother Teresa~

"do or do not there is no try" --yoda

" never judge a man till you've walked a mile in his moccasins. then if u find u don't like him...he's a mile away and u have his moccasins"
--last years english teacher

"u can lead a horse to wate but u may have to shoot it"
--my dad

"confucius say, game of baseball makes no sense. man with four balls cannot walk" -- my friend S. Weg

"...one can fully never the individual. quite say they might imperfect, but not why? i because and can or wish, if willed against. ~hiccup~

take me drunk, i'm home."

"...to you i am the sum total of all that i am. to me, i am the choices that i have made.

choose my me and find your you."

"...if you came here to take, this world is a nightmare. if you came here to give, this world is a dream."

"...a fish headed downstream might be alive, or dead. a fish swimming upstream might need directions, but it's definitely alive. "

"wonder which way teenage trout swim in breeding season."

"...a day without sunshine is, like, night."

"everybody gets older. not everybody grows up."

"writing to the beat...

...effective writing is as dependent on a sensitive heart as a mesmerizing command of the language, i think.

low "cholesterol"=better writing ? ;-)"

"intellect the vehicle.
knowledge the fuel.
desire the key.................understanding."



all of the above that are unlabeled are from my good friend and head lifeguard this past summer ,Josh (hes a very deep thinker when its 4 in the morning around a camp fire with a great group of guyz (and a little booze) )

"A person is about as happy as they make their mind up to be."
Abe Lincoln

"We must be the change we want to see in the world."
Ghandi

"Principles only mean something when you stand by them when it is inconvenient."

"Integrity is doing the right thing even when no one is watching."

(I didn't look those up so I'm not sure if they are exact, but I think they are close)

"This river don't run to Aintree." (cmon someone knows where THIS is from . . )




A bit more longwinded:

"On the face of it, there is something rather strange about human psychology.
Human beings live in a state of mind called "sanity" on a small planet in space. They are not quite sure whether the space around them is infinite or not (either way it is unthinkable). If they think about time, they find it inconceivable that it had a beginning. It is also inconceivable that it did not have a beginning.
Thoughts of this kind are not disturbing to "sanity", which is obviously a remarkable phenomenon and deserving more recognition."
~Celia Green "The Human Evasion"

(I have been struggling to find some that I could quote without censoring them or them being too boring - nothing stopping anyone from posting in this thread repeatedly so if something else jogs my memory up it goes)

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Originally Posted by Smulkin

(I have been struggling to find some that I could quote without censoring them or them being too boring - nothing stopping anyone from posting in this thread repeatedly so if something else jogs my memory up it goes)

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That quote was by Smulkin, and basically says what I wanted to :) Gimmee some time and I'll think of some.

Easier to ask for forgiveness that for permission

Question: How do you make a million dollars in the horse business?
Answer: Start with 2 million.

:D

lol, gin. i think the same might also be said of the herp business. :)

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Originally Posted by Ginevive

Question: How do you make a million dollars in the horse business?
Answer: Start with 2 million.

:D

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yep....that quote should read:

How do you make a million dollars in ANY business?

:D

A good friend of mine told me this one...

"The grass is always greener on the other side...
but someone still has to mow it!"
-Father of Chris Homes

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Originally Posted by Smulkin

"This river don't run to Aintree." (cmon someone knows where THIS is from . . )

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Deliverence.

*hears banjos in the background*

My fave quote:

"We are the music makers and we are the dreamers of dreams."

Willy Wonka. ;)

"All I need is super glue and a red magic marker.
To fill in all the glue in the place where my heart was.
There really nothing else to do but pick up the pieces,
and re-atattch them really fast with super glue."

Super Gloo - The Kimberly Trap

Hey they may be lyrics but they are still cool and the song is sooo catchy