Quotations about Pregnancy

"Quinto Sol" by Frederico Vigil 1992
This picture features a woman, pregnant with the future, surrounded by references to the history of mural painting. Included are pictographs, images from Mexican muralists David Alfaro Siquieros and Jose Clemente Orozco, and a fragment of Michelangelo's "Creation of Man" from the Sistine Chapel ceiling. The title comes from the pre-columbian conception of time.

If nature had arranged that husbands and wives should have children alternatively, there would never be more than three in a family. ~Lawrence Housman


If pregnancy were a book they would cut the last two chapters. ~Nora Ephron, Heartburn, 1983


I realize why women die in childbirth - it's preferable. ~Sherry Glaser


A period is just the beginning of a lifelong sentence. ~Cathy Crimmins


Life is tough enough without having someone kick you from the inside. ~Rita Rudner


Think of stretch marks as pregnancy service stripes. ~Joyce Armor


There are three reasons for breast-feeding: the milk is always at the right temperature; it comes in attractive containers; and the cat can't get it. ~Irena Chalmers


A ship under sail and a big-bellied woman,
Are the handsomest two things that can be seen common.
~Benjamin Franklin


You should never say anything to a woman that even remotely suggests that you think she's pregnant unless you can see an actual baby emerging from her at that moment. ~Dave Barry, "Things That It Took Me 50 Years to Learn"


Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped. ~Sam Levenson


Love and pregnancy and riding on a camel cannot be hid. ~Arabic Proverb


God's interest in the human race is nowhere better evinced than in obstetrics. ~Martin H. Fischer


By far the most common craving of pregnant women is not to be pregnant. ~Phyllis Diller


If men were equally at risk from this condition - if they knew their bellies might swell as if they were suffering from end-stage cirrhosis, that they would have to go nearly a year without a stiff drink, a cigarette, or even an aspirin, that they would be subject to fainting spells and unable to fight their way onto commuter trains - then I am sure that pregnancy would be classified as a sexually transmitted disease and abortions would be no more controversial than emergency appendectomies. ~Barbara Ehrenreich

Poem For Our Children

Train up a child in the way he should go:
and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

Proverbs 22:6

Poem For Our Children

Mothers, touch your children,
Fathers, hug them tight.
Let them know you love them
Morning, noon, and night.

Put your arms around them,
Hold them near to you,
Feel the beating of their hearts,
The life that you made new.

Roll around the floor with them,
Tease and laugh and play.
Listen to what they'll tell you,
They have so much to say.

Take time to get to know them,
See the colors in their eyes.
Appreciate that person
That deep inside them lies.

Let them run their fingers through
your hair and down your face.
Fill their hearts with words of praise.
Make home their favorite place.

Cuddle with them on the couch
And watch a t.v. show.
Sing with them or share a book,
And help their world to grow.

Take a walk into the park,
Hold each other's hand,
Build castles in the sand.

Mothers, touch your children,
Fathers, hug them tight.
Show them what a gift they are.
To love them feels so right.


~Author: Kathie Davis~

Quotations On Parenting

To bring up a child means carrying one's soul in one's hand, setting one's feet on a narrow path, it means never placing ourselves in danger of meeting the cold look on the part of the child that tells us without words that he finds us insufficient and unreliable. It means the humble realisation of the truth that the ways of injuring the child are infinite, while the ways of being useful to him are few. How seldom does the educator remember that the child, even at four or five years of age, is making experiments with adults, seeing through them, with marvelous shrewdness making his own valuations and reacting sensitively to each impression. The slightest mistrust, the smallest unkindness, the least act of injustice or contemptuous ridicule, leave wounds that last for life in the finely strung soul of the child."

The Century of the Child, by Ellen Key (1900)

"I have seen a child, natively most tender and susceptible, a boy with a heart all affection, and feelings like harp strings, ready to vibrate at very breath, grow up a cold-hearted, undemonstrative man; just because he had lived under an unfortunate and mistaken family influence, in which no effort had been made to give play to movements of his deeper and gentler nature, and where all was calculated to suppress and stifle them."

Life at Home, William Aikman, 1870, New York.

"Before they can go (are mobile), they instill in them violence, revenge, and cruelty. Give me a whip, that I may beat him, is a lesson which most children every day hear; and it is thought nothing, because their hands have not strength to do any mischief. But I ask, does not this corrupt their mind? Is not this the way of force and violence, that they are set in? And if they have been taught when little, to strike and hurt others by proxy, and encouraged to rejoice in the harm they have brought upon them, and see them suffer, are they not prepared to do it when they are strong enough to be felt themselves, and can strike to some purpose."

Some Thoughts Concerning Education, John Locke, 1693

Quotations about Love VI

Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination. ~Voltaire


Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. ~William Shakespeare


Love is metaphysical gravity. ~R Buckminster Fuller


Love is my religion - I could die for it. ~John Keats

Love is the self-delusion we manufacture to justify the trouble we take to have sex. ~Dan Greenburg


Love would never be a promise of a rose garden unless it is showered with light of faith, water of sincerity and air of passion. ~Author Unknown

Just because somebody doesn't love you the way you want them to, doesn't mean they don't love you with all they have. ~Author Unknown


If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular? ~Author Unknown

Anyone can catch your eye, but it takes someone special to catch your heart. ~Author Unknown


Love is missing someone whenever you're apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you're close in heart. ~Kay Knudsen


Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another. ~Henry Louis Mencken


You learn to like someone when you find out what makes them laugh, but you can never truly love someone until you find out what makes them cry. ~Author Unknown


Sometimes we make love with our eyes. Sometimes we make love with our hands. Sometimes we make love with our bodies. Always we make love with our hearts. ~Author Unknown


True love is when you put someone on a pedestal, and they fall - but you are there to catch them. ~Author Unknown


You know when you have found your prince because you not only have a smile on your face but in your heart as well. ~Author Unknown


Love puts the fun in together, the sad in apart, and the joy in a heart. ~Author Unknown


Trip over love, you can get up. Fall in love and you fall forever. ~Author Unknown


Love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image... otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them. ~Author Unknown

Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less. ~Rabbi Julins Gordon


To the world you might be one person, but to one person you might be the world. ~Author Unknown

No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960

It's so easy to fall in love but hard to find someone who will catch you. ~Author Unknown

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving oneself, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance. ~Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray


Love is the silent saying and saying of a single name. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960


Come live in my heart and pay no rent. ~Samuel Lover


Romance is dead - it was acquired in a hostile takeover by Hallmark and Disney, homogenized, and sold off piece by piece. ~Lisa Simpson, The Simpsons

If love does not know how to give and take without restrictions, it is not love, but a transaction that never fails to lay stress on a plus and a minus. ~Emma Goldman, The Tragedy of Women's Emancipation

I but know that I love thee, whatever thou art. ~Thomas Moore

Love isn't blind, it's retarded. ~From the television show Two and a Half Men written by Don Foster and Susan Beavers

Free love? as if love is anything but free. Man has bought brains, but all the millions in the world have failed to buy love. ~Emma Goldman, Marriage and Love
Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion. ~Miguel de Unamuno

If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I. ~Michel de Montaigne


I don't wish to be everything to everyone, but I would like to be something to someone. ~Javan

Like I've always said, love wouldn't be blind if the braille weren't so damned much fun. ~Armistead Maupin, Maybe the Moon (Thanks, David)
Part of the reason that men seem so much less loving than women is that men's behavior is measured with a feminine ruler. ~Francesca M. Cancian


Can miles truly separate you from friends.... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there? ~Richard Bach


What I need to live has been given to me by the earth. Why I need to live has been given to me by you. ~Author Unknown


If I had a single flower for every time I think about you, I could walk forever in my garden. ~Attributed to Claudia Ghandi


Falling in love is so hard on the knees. ~Aerosmith


In true love the smallest distance is too great, and the greatest distance can be bridged. ~Hans Nouwens

Like everybody who is not in love, he thought one chose the person to be loved after endless deliberations and on the basis of particular qualities or advantages. ~Marcel Proust, Remembrance of Things Past: Cities of the Plain, 1922

The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost. ~G.K. Chesterton


I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each other's dreams, we can play together all night. ~Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes


Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else. ~George Bernard Shaw


The simple lack of her is more to me than others' presence. ~Edward Thomas

Quotations about Love V

Mumps, measles, and puppy love are terrible after twenty. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960

You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving. ~Author Unknown


Love is what you've been through with somebody. ~James Thurber, quoted in Life magazine, 1960

Love is being stupid together. ~Paul Valery


In this horror of solitude, this need to lose his ego in exterior flesh, which man calls grandly the need for love. ~Charles Baudelaire


Open your heart and take us in,
Love - love and me.
~W.E. Henley


Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love. I'd stepped in it a few times. ~Rita Rudner


Love does not care to define and is never in a hurry to do so. ~Charles du Bos


What "love" is I don't know if it's not the response of our deepest natures to one another. ~William Carlos Williams


Ah, lady, when I gave my heart to thee,
It passed into thy lifelong regency.
~Gilbert Parker


The heart has its reasons that reason knows nothing of. ~Blaise Pascal, Pensées, 1670

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet. ~Plato


As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words. ~William Shakespeare

Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable. ~Bruce Lee


Tell me how many beads there are
In a silver chain
Of evening rain,
Unravelled from the tumbling main,
And threading the eye of a yellow star: -
So many times do I love again.
~Thomas Lovell Beddoes


A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy. ~George Jean Nathan


Love makes time pass; time makes love pass. ~French Proverb


True love stories never have endings. ~Richard Bach (Thank you, Bonnie.)


I love you as you are, but do not tell me how that is. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

There's nothing more freeing than the shackles of love. ~Emma Racine deFleur


Platonic love is love from the neck up. ~Thyra Smater Winsolow


We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love. ~Tom Robbins


The eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love. ~Margaret Atwood

You really shouldn't say "I love you" unless you mean it. But if you mean it, you should say it a lot. People forget. ~Author unknown, attributed to an 8-year-old named Jessica


So dear I love him, that with him all deaths I could endure, without him live no life. ~John Milton

Nobody has ever measured, even poets, how much a heart can hold. ~Zelda Fitzgerald


Men love because they are afraid of themselves, afraid of the loneliness that lives in them, and need someone in whom they can lose themselves as smoke loses itself in the sky. ~V.F. Calverton


Love is the most important thing in the world, but baseball is pretty good too. ~Greg, age 8

Lust fades, so you'd better be with someone who can stand you. ~From the movie The Story of Us

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves. ~Victor Hugo


Love is the greatest refreshment in life. ~Pablo Picasso

Quotations about Love IV

Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds. ~William Shakespeare, "Sonnet CXVI"

He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began. ~Leo Tolstoy


It is the same in love as in war; a fortress that parleys is half taken. ~Marguerite de Valois


You don't have to go looking for love when it's where you come from. ~Werner Erhard


No one can understand love who has not experienced infatuation. And no one can understand infatuation, no matter how many times he has experienced it. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
Love me and the world is mine. ~David Reed


Thou art to me a delicious torment. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson


It would be impossible to "love" anyone or anything one knew completely. Love is directed towards what lies hidden in its object. ~Paul Valéry, Tel quel, 1943


The love game is never called off on account of darkness. ~Tom Masson


They who meet on an April night are forever lost in love, if there's moonlight all about and no moon above. ~From a song


Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence. ~David Byrne


Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. ~Robert Frost


Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place. ~Zora Neale Hurston


Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. ~Emily Brontë


The excesses of love soon pass, but its insufficiencies torment us forever. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960

An old man in love is like a flower in winter. ~Portuguese Proverb


Will you love me in December as you do in May,
Will you love me in the good old fashioned way?
When my hair has all turned gray,
Will you kiss me then and say,
That you love me in December as you do in May?
~James J. Walker

Love unlocks doors and opens windows that weren't even there before. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966

Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane. ~Honoré de Balzac


Love withers under constraints: its very essence is liberty: it is compatible neither with obedience, jealousy, nor fear: it is there most pure, perfect, and unlimited where its votaries live in confidence, equality and unreserve. ~Percy Bysshe Shelley, Queen Mab notes


Love is the poetry of the senses. ~Honoré de Balzac


Love is a game that two can play and both win. ~Eva Gabor


Without love, the rich and poor live in the same house. ~Author Unknown


The heart is a small thing, but desireth great matters. It is not sufficient for a kite's dinner, yet the whole world is not sufficient for it. ~Francis Quarles, Emblems


Love is like those second-rate hotels where all the luxury is in the lobby. ~Paul-Jean Toulet


We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack. ~Marie Ebner Von Eschenbach, Aphorism


All love is probationary, a fact which frightens women and exhilarates men. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966


True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen. ~François, duc de La Rochefoucauld

Some women love only what they can hold in their arms; others, only what they can't. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966


Love, and a cough, cannot be hid. ~George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum, 1651


Desire creates havoc when it is the only thing between two people, or when it is what's missing. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960


Poetry spills from the cracks of a broken heart, but flows from one which is loved. ~Christopher Paul Rubero


A man is not where he lives, but where he loves. ~Latin Proverb


Love here on earth
Love beyond the grave
There are no roads
My love for you can't pave.
~T. Sachs


The arms of love encompass you with your present, your past, your future, the arms of love gather you together. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Southern Mail, 1929, translated from French by Curtis Cate


I need the starshine of your heavenly eyes,
After the day's great sun.
~Charles Hanson Towne


A lover is a man who tries to be more amiable than it is possible for him to be. ~Nicholas de Chamfort

Love is not consolation. It is light. ~Friedrich Nietzsche


True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked. ~Erich Segal


Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams. ~Fyodor Dostoevski


True love is a discipline in which each divines the secret self of the other and refuses to believe in the mere daily self. ~William Butler Yeats

Quotations about Love III

Picture of Daffodils

When a man is in love or in debt, someone else has the advantage. ~Bill Balance


Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly. ~Rose Franken


Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat. ~Ben Hecht


Love is like dew that falls on both nettles and lilies. ~Swedish Proverb


Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity. ~Henry Van Dyke


A bell is no bell 'til you ring it,
A song is no song 'til you sing it,
And love in your heart
Wasn’t put there to stay -
Love isn’t love
'Til you give it away.
~Oscar Hammerstein, Sound of Music, "You Are Sixteen (Reprise)" (Thank you, Krystel.)


Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket or a holding pattern over Philadelphia. ~Judith Viorst, Redbook, 1975

Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place. ~Ice T, The Ice Opinion, quoted in Reader's Digest, "Quotable Quotes," February 2002

Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses. ~Lord Dewar


When you're in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks. ~Natalie Clifford Barney


It is astonishing how little one feels alone when one loves. ~John Bulwer


'Tis sweet to know there is an eye will mark our coming, and look brighter when we come. ~Lord Byron


A hundred hearts would be too few
To carry all my love for you.
~Author Unknown


Love is the thing that enables a woman to sing while she mops up the floor after her husband has walked across it in his barn boots. ~Hoosier Farmer


Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke. ~Lynda Barry


Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love; it is the faithless who know love's tragedies. ~Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891


Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old. ~John Ciardi


People who are sensible about love are incapable of it. ~Douglas Yates


Love never reasons but profusely gives; gives, like a thoughtless prodigal, its all, and trembles lest it has done too little. ~Hannah Moore


Ah me! why may not love and life be one? ~Henry Timrod


Take away love and our earth is a tomb. ~Robert Browning

Quotations about Love II

Picture of Daffodils

The lover is a monotheist who knows that other people worship different gods but cannot himself imagine that there could be other gods. ~Theodor Reik, Of Love and Lust, 1957


Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit. ~Peter Ustinov


Hate leaves ugly scars, love leaves beautiful ones. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
~William Shakespeare, Mid-Summer Night's Dream, 1595


The art of love... is largely the art of persistence. ~Albert Ellis


Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that. ~Michael Leunig


Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law. ~Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy, A.D. 524

Who, being loved, is poor? ~Oscar Wilde


Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame. ~Henry David Thoreau


Without love, what are we worth? Eighty-nine cents! Eighty-nine cents worth of chemicals walking around lonely. ~ Hawkeye


A baby is born with a need to be loved - and never outgrows it. ~Frank A. Clark The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough. ~George Moore


We loved with a love that was more than love. ~Edgar Allan Poe


If I love you, what business is it of yours? ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


The hardest-learned lesson: that people have only their kind of love to give, not our kind. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960


Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire. ~François Duc de La Rochefoucauld


My debt to you, Belovèd,
Is one I cannot pay
In any coin of any realm
On any reckoning day.
~Jessie B. Rittenhouse


We choose those we like; with those we love, we have no say in the matter. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960


The ultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but to hold hands. ~Quoted by Alexandra Penney in Self


Love is, above all, the gift of oneself. ~Jean Anouilh

Quotations about Love I

Picture of Daffodils

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread. ~Mother Teresa

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love. ~Albert Einstein


You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip. ~Jonathan Carroll, "Outside the Dog Museum"


Ah me! love can not be cured by herbs. ~Ovid


Infatuation is when you think he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger, as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is when you realize that he's as sexy as Woody Allen, as smart as Jimmy Connors, as funny as Ralph Nader, as athletic as Henry Kissinger and nothing like Robert Redford - but you'll take him anyway. ~Judith Viorst, Redbook, 1975


Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species. ~W. Somerset Maugham, A Writer's Notebook, 1949


Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand and Stars, 1939, translated from French by Lewis Galantière


When love is not madness, it is not love. ~Pedro Calderon de la Barca

Let your love be like the misty rains, coming softly, but flooding the river. ~Malagasy Proverb


You don't love a woman because she is beautiful, she is beautiful because you love her. ~Author Unknown


For you see, each day I love you more
Today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.
~Rosemonde Gerard


Forget love... I'd rather fall in chocolate! ~Author Unknown


Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense. ~Mark Overby


Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end. ~Author Unknown


Love - a wildly misunderstood although highly desirable malfunction of the heart which weakens the brain, causes eyes to sparkle, cheeks to glow, blood pressure to rise and the lips to pucker. ~Author Unknown

Love is a sweet tyranny, because the lover endureth his torments willingly. ~Proverb

Princess Diana's Quotes

I understand people's suffering, people's pain, more than you will every know yourself.

Yes, I do touch. I believe that everyone needs that.

I've always thought that people need to feel good about themselves and I see my role as offering support to them, to provide some light along the way.

It's vital the monarchy keeps in touch with the people. It's what I try and do.

I don't go by the rule book, I lead from the heart, not the head.

I knew what my job was, it was to go out and meet the people and love them.

I will fight for my children on any level so they can reach their potential as human beings and in their public duties.

I wear my heart on my sleeve.

The kindness and affection from the public have carried me through some of the most difficult periods, and always your love and affection have eased the journey.

I wish all the mothers, fathers and children out there realize how much I need them and how much I value their support.

I'd like people to think of me as someone who cares about them.

Everyone needs to be valued. Everyone has the potential to give something back.

Hugs can do a great amount of good, especially for children.

I'm aware that people I have loved and have died and are in the spirit world look after me.

Mother Teresa's Quotes

On poverty

"I see God in every human being. When I wash the leper's wounds, I feel I am nursing the Lord himself. Is it not a beautiful experience?" -- 1974 interview.

"When I see waste here, I feel angry on the inside. I don't approve of myself getting angry. But it's something you can't help after seeing Ethiopia." -- Washington 1984.

On the Nobel Peace Prize

"I choose the poverty of our poor people. But I am grateful to receive (the Nobel) in the name of the hungry, the naked, the homeless, of the crippled, of the blind, of the lepers, of all those people who feel unwanted, unloved, uncared-for throughout society, people that have become a burden to the society and are shunned by everyone." -- Accepting the Nobel Peace Prize, 1979.

On war

"I have never been in a war before, but I have seen famine and death. I was asking (myself), 'What do they feel when they do this?' I don't understand it. They are all children of God. Why do they do it? I don't understand." -- Beirut 1982, during fighting between the Israeli army and Palestinian guerrillas.

"Please choose the way of peace. ... In the short term there may be winners and losers in this war that we all dread. But that never can, nor never will justify the suffering, pain and loss of life your weapons will cause." -- Letter to U.S. President George Bush and Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, January 1991.

On abortion

Abortion "is murder in the womb ... A child is a gift of God. If you do not want him, give him to me."

On retirement

"God will find another person, more humble, more devoted, more obedient to him, and the society will go on." -- Calcutta 1989, after announcing her intention to retire.

"I was expecting to be free, but God has his own plans." -- Calcutta 1990, when the sisters of her order persuaded her to withdraw her resignation.

On her life's work

"The other day I dreamed that I was at the gates of heaven. And St. Peter said, 'Go back to Earth. There are no slums up here.'" -- Quoted as telling Prince Michael of Greece in 1996.

Quotes on Inner Child

In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play. ~Friedrich Nietzsche

Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life. ~G.K. Chesterton

The great man is he who does not lose his child's-heart. ~Mencius, Book IV

So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us. ~Gaston Bachelard

When I grow up I want to be a little boy. ~Joseph Heller, Something Happened, 1974

I wish I didn't know now what I didn't know then. ~Bob Seger, "Against the Wind"

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. ~Pablo Picasso

One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them. ~Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince, 1943

To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature. Most persons do not see the sun. At least they have a very superficial seeing. The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye and heart of the child. The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other; who has retained the spirit of infancy even into the era of manhood. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

The reluctance to put away childish things may be a requirement of genius. ~Rebecca Pepper Sinkler

Maybe we should develop a Crayola bomb as our next secret weapon. A happiness weapon. A beauty bomb. And every time a crisis developed, we would launch one. It would explode high in the air - explode softly - and send thousands, millions, of little parachutes into the air. Floating down to earth - boxes of Crayolas. And we wouldn't go cheap, either - not little boxes of eight. Boxes of sixty-four, with the sharpener built right in. With silver and gold and copper, magenta and peach and lime, amber and umber and all the rest. And people would smile and get a little funny look on their faces and cover the world with imagination. ~Robert Fulghum

When you're green you're growing, and when you're ripe you start to rot. ~Ray Kroc

Adults are obsolete children. ~Dr. Seuss

A grownup is a child with layers on. ~Woody Harrelson

The end of childhood is when things cease to astonish us. When the world seems familiar, when one has got used to existence, one has become an adult. ~Eugene Ionesco

I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things.... I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind. ~Leo Buscaglia

Quotations about Childhood

Pictutre: A Sioux child and a grizzly bear cub-sisters of Mother Earth. Artist, Joe Venus after watching two bear cubs frolicking in a meadow was inspired to do a painting of the interaction of animal and human in the early stages of their life. A time when fun and games is a priority. A time when television and video games do not detract from the basics of development of the children of Mother Earth and Father Sky.

There is a garden in every childhood, an enchanted place where colors are brighter, the air softer, and the morning more fragrant than ever again. ~Elizabeth Lawrence

Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows. ~John Betjeman, Summoned by Bells

Sweet childish days, that were as long
As twenty days are now.
~William Wordsworth, "To a Butterfly"

Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age. ~Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911

We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it. ~George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss, 1860

The greatest poem ever known
Is one all poets have outgrown:
The poetry, innate, untold,
Of being only four years old.
~Christopher Morley, To a Child

Childhood is the fiery furnace in which we are melted down to essentials and that essential shaped for good. ~Katherine Anne Porter

What we remember from childhood we remember forever - permanent ghosts, stamped, inked, imprinted, eternally seen. ~Cynthia Ozick

The childhood shows the man
As morning shows the day. ~John Milton, Paradise Regained

The older I grow the more earnestly I feel that the few joys of childhood are the best that life has to give. ~Ellen Glasgow

Old age lives minutes slowly, hours quickly; childhood chews hours and swallows minutes. ~Malcolm de Chazal

Quotations about Children II

Children seldom misquote. In fact, they usually repeat word for word what you shouldn't have said. ~Author Unknown

A little girl is sugar and spice and everything nice - especially when she's taking a nap. ~Author Unknown

A child is a curly dimpled lunatic. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

In America there are two classes of travel - first class, and with children. ~Robert Benchley

The prime purpose of being four is to enjoy being four - of secondary importance is to prepare for being five. ~Jim Trelease, The Read-Aloud Handbook, 1985

Youth is a perpetual intoxication; it is a fever of the mind. ~François Duc de la Rochefoucauld

Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized. ~Margaret Atwood

What is a home without children? Quiet. ~Henny Youngman

It is not easy to be crafty and winsome at the same time, and few accomplish it after the age of six. ~John W. Gardner and Francesca Gardner Reese

Children find everything in nothing; men find nothing in everything. ~Giacomo Leopardi, Zibaldone Scelto

Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives. ~Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, 1969

Women gather together to wear silly hats, eat dainty food, and forget how unresponsive their husbands are. Men gather to talk sports, eat heavy food, and forget how demanding their wives are. Only where children gather is there any real chance of fun. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960

Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing. ~Phyllis Diller

Anyone who thinks the art of conversation is dead ought to tell a child to go to bed. ~Robert Gallagher

Any kid will run any errand for you if you ask at bedtime. ~Red Skelton

The only thing worth stealing is a kiss from a sleeping child. ~Joe Houldsworth

There's nothing that can help you understand your beliefs more than trying to explain them to an inquisitive child. ~Frank A. Clark

If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers. ~Edgar W. Howe

The real menace in dealing with a five-year-old is that in no time at all you begin to sound like a five-year-old. ~Joan Kerr, Please Don't Eat the Daisies, 1957

Children are contemptuous, haughty, irritable, envious, sneaky, selfish, lazy, flighty, timid, liars and hypocrites, quick to laugh and cry, extreme in expressing joy and sorrow, especially about trifles, they'll do anything to avoid pain but they enjoy inflicting it: little men already. ~Jean de La Bruyère, Les Caractères, 1688

There are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child. There are seven million. ~Walt Streightiff

Quotations about Children I

We worry about what a child will become tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today. ~Stacia Tauscher

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance. ~Franklin P. Jones

A characteristic of the normal child is he doesn't act that way very often. ~Author Unknown

We've had bad luck with our kids - they've all grown up. ~Christopher Morley

A child can ask questions that a wise man cannot answer. ~Author Unknown

Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it. ~Harold Hulbert

A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm. ~Bill Vaughan

Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music. ~William Stafford

Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see. ~John W. Whitehead, The Stealing of America, 1983

Children are one third of our population and all of our future. ~Select Panel for the Promotion of Child Health, 1981

Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky. ~Fran Lebowitz

If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all. ~Pearl S. Buck

Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man. ~Rabindranath Tagore

You are worried about seeing him spend his early years in doing nothing. What! Is it nothing to be happy? Nothing to skip, play, and run around all day long? Never in his life will he be so busy again. ~Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile, 1762

In the United States today, there is a pervasive tendency to treat children as adults, and adults as children. The options of children are thus steadily expanded, while those of adults are progressively constricted. The result is unruly children and childish adults. ~Thomas Szasz

Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next. ~Franklin P. Jones

Children make you want to start life over. ~Muhammad Ali

Boy, n.: a noise with dirt on it. ~Not Your Average Dictionary

I am fond of children - except boys. ~Lewis Carroll

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. ~George Bernard Shaw

There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Quotations about Baby

It sometimes happens, even in the best of families, that a baby is born. This is not necessarily cause for alarm. The important thing is to keep your wits about you and borrow some money. ~Elinor Goulding Smith

A baby is an angel whose wings decrease as his legs increase. ~Author Unknown

Babies are always more trouble than you thought - and more wonderful. ~Charles Osgood

Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other. ~Ed Howe

People who say they sleep like a baby usually don't have one. ~Leo J. Burke

Babies are such a nice way to start people. ~Don Herrold

Every baby needs a lap. ~Henry Robin

Getting down on all fours and imitating a rhinoceros stops babies from crying. (Put an empty cigarette pack on your nose for a horn and make loud "snort" noises.) I don't know why parents don't do this more often. Usually it makes the kid laugh. Sometimes it sends him into shock. Either way it quiets him down. If you're a parent, acting like a rhino has another advantage. Keep it up until the kid is a teenager and he definitely won't have his friends hanging around your house all the time. ~P.J. O'Rourke

When babies look beyond you and giggle, maybe they're seeing angels. ~Quoted in The Angels' Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994

Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principal one was that they escaped teething. ~Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson, 1894

A baby is a blank cheque made payable to the human race. ~Barbara Christine Seifert

One of the most obvious results of having a baby around the house is to turn two good people into complete idiots who probably wouldn't have been much worse than mere imbeciles without it. ~Georges Courteline, La Philosophie de Georges Courteline

It was the tiniest thing I ever decided to put my whole life into. ~Terri Guillemets

God's interest in the human race is nowhere better evinced than in obstetrics. ~Martin H. Fischer

A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on. ~Carl Sandburg

If you were to open up a baby's head - and I am not for a moment suggesting that you should - you would find nothing but an enormous drool gland. ~Dave Barry

Quotations about Flowers II

Pluck not the wayside flower;
It is the traveler's dower.
~William Allingham


Why do people give each other flowers? To celebrate various important occasions, they're killing living creatures? Why restrict it to plants? "Sweetheart, let's make up. Have this deceased squirrel." ~The Washington Post


Flowers really do intoxicate me. ~Vita Sackville-West


There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation's braggart lords. ~John Muir, A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf, 1916


With daffodils mad footnotes for the spring,
And asters purple asterisks for autumn -
~Conrad Aiken, Preludes for Memnon, 1930


The poet's darling. ~William Wordsworth, "To the Daisy"


Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul. ~The Koran


If dandelions were hard to grow, they would be most welcome on any lawn. ~Andrew Mason


I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze
Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the milky way,
They stretched in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.
~William Wordsworth, "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud," 1804


I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers. ~Claude Monet


The flowers of late winter and early spring occupy places in our hearts well out of proportion to their size. ~Gertrude S. Wister


Can we conceive what humanity would be if it did not know the flowers? ~Maurice Maeterlinck


Being perfect artists and ingenuous poets, the Chinese have piously preserved the love and holy cult of flowers; one of the very rare and most ancient traditions which has survived their decadence. And since flowers had to be distinguished from each other, they have attributed graceful analogies to them, dreamy images, pure and passionate names which perpetuate and harmonize in our minds the sensations of gentle charm and violent intoxication with which they inspire us. So it is that certain peonies, their favorite flower, are saluted by the Chinese, according to their form or color, by these delicious names, each an entire poem and an entire novel: The Young Girl Who Offers Her Breasts, or: The Water That Sleeps Beneath the Moon, or: The Sunlight in the Forest, or: The First Desire of the Reclining Virgin, or: My Gown Is No Longer All White Because in Tearing It the Son of Heaven Left a Little Rosy Stain; or, even better, this one: I Possessed My Lover in the Garden. ~Octave Mirbeau, Torture Garden, "The Garden," Chapter 5


A profusion of pink roses bending ragged in the rain speaks to me of all gentleness and its enduring. ~The Collected Later Poems of William Carlos Williams


Flowers have spoken to me more than I can tell in written words. They are the hieroglyphics of angels, loved by all men for the beauty of their character, though few can decipher even fragments of their meaning. ~Lydia M. Child


You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet. ~Hal Borland, Sundial of the Seasons, 1964


God loved the flowers and invented soil. Man loved the flowers and invented vases. ~Variation of a saying by Jacques Deval (God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages.)

Quotations about Flowers I

Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made, and forgot to put a soul into. ~Henry Beecher, Life Thoughts, 1858


Earth laughs in flowers. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Hamatreya"


I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck. ~Emma Goldman


People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us. ~Iris Murdoch, A Fairly Honourable Defeat


For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant! ~Edward Abbey


I will be the gladdest thing
Under the sun!
I will touch a hundred flowers
And not pick one.
~Edna St. Vincent Millay, "Afternoon on a Hill"


The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers. ~Basho


To be overcome by the fragrance of flowers is a delectable form of defeat. ~Beverly Nichols


Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1844


A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books. ~Walt Whitman


'Tis my faith that every flower
Enjoys the air it breathes!
~William Wordsworth, "Lines Written in Early Spring," Lyrical Ballads, 1798


The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks. ~Tennessee Williams


Flowers are without hope. Because hope is tomorrow and flowers have no tomorrow. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin


Break open a cherry tree and there are no flowers, but the spring breeze brings forth myriad blossoms. ~Ikkyu Sojun


Perfumes are the feelings of flowers. ~Heinrich Heine, The Hartz Journey


Summer set lip to earth's bosom bare,
And left the flushed print in a poppy there.
~Francis Thompson, "The Poppy," 1891


How can one help shivering with delight when one's hot fingers close around the stem of a live flower, cool from the shade and stiff with newborn vigor! ~Colette


Look at us, said the violets blooming at her feet, all last winter we slept in the seeming death but at the right time God awakened us, and here we are to comfort you. ~Edward Payson Rod


Flowers seem intended for the solace of ordinary humanity. ~John Ruskin


When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other. ~Chinese Proverb

Quotations about Goals III

The only thing that has to be finished by next Tuesday is next Monday. ~Jennifer Yane


All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible. ~T.E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom, 1926


Map out your future, but do it in pencil. ~Jon Bon Jovi, quoted in Reader's Digest, "Quotable Quotes," September 2002


Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions. ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Drift-Wood


None of our men are "experts." We have most unfortunately found it necessary to get rid of a man as soon as he thinks himself an expert because no one ever considers himself expert if he really knows his job. A man who knows a job sees so much more to be done than he has done, that he is always pressing forward and never gives up an instant of thought to how good and how efficient he is. Thinking always ahead, thinking always of trying to do more, brings a state of mind in which nothing is impossible. The moment one gets into the "expert" state of mind a great number of things become impossible. ~Henry Ford, Sr.


There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all. ~Peter Drucker


We are too busy mopping the floor to turn off the faucet. ~Author Unknown


When solving problems, dig at the roots instead of just hacking at the leaves. ~Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book


You must have long-range goals to keep you from being frustrated by short-range failures. ~Charles C. Noble


Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal. ~Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche


We're still not where we're going, but we're not where we were. ~Natash Jasefowitz


Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another. ~John Dewey


The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it, generation after generation. ~Pearl S. Buck


If you aim at nothing, you'll hit it every time. ~Author Unknown


Vision without action is a daydream. Action with without vision is a nightmare. ~Japanese Proverb


When the horse is dead, get off. ~Author Unknown


This is a story about four people named Everybody, Somebody, Anybody, and Nobody. There was an important job to be done and Everybody was sure that Somebody would do it. Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it. Somebody got angry about that, because it was Everybody's job. Everybody thought Anybody could do it, but Nobody realized that Everybody wouldn't do it. It ended up that Everybody blamed Somebody when Nobody did what Anyone could have. ~Author Unknown


If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it; every arrow that flies feels the attraction of earth. ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


One may miss the mark by aiming too high as too low. ~Thomas Fuller


When people say to me: "How do you do so many things?" I often answer them, without meaning to be cruel: "How do you do so little?" It seems to me that people have vast potential. Most people can do extraordinary things if they have the confidence or take the risks. Yet most people don't. They sit in front of the telly and treat life as if it goes on forever. ~Philip Adams


Establishing goals is all right if you don't let them deprive you of interesting detours. ~Doug Larson