Quotable

“Happy hearts and happy faces, happy play in grassy places.That was how, in ancient ages, children grew to kings and sages.” ~ R.L.Stevenson

“How can you have too many children? That’s like saying there are too many flowers” ~ Mother Teresa

“I love these little people;
and it is not a slight thing when they,
who are so fresh from God, love us.”
~ Charles Dickens (The Old Curiosity Shop, 1841)

“The most important person on earth is a mother. She cannot claim the honor of having built Notre Dame Cathedral. She need not. She has built something more magnificent than any cathedral—a dwelling for an immortal soul, the tiny perfection of her baby’s body…Even the angels have not been given such a grace! What is more glorious than this—to be a mother.” ~ Joseph Cardinal Mindszenty

“Love begins by taking care of the closest ones—the ones at home.” ~Mother Teresa

“I miss thee, my Mother! Thy image is still
The deepest impressed on my heart.”
~Eliza Cook

“No Language can express the power and beauty and heroism of a Mother’s love.” ~ Edwin H. Chapin.

“To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.” ~Victor Hugo

“Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things. It isn’t the mountain ahead that wears you out – it’s the grain of sand in your shoe.” ~Robert Service Canadian Poet 1874-1958

“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” ~ Howard Thurman (1899 – 1981, Author, Philosopher, Preacher, Civil Rights leader.)

“Whatever your life’s work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.” ~ Martin Luther King Jnr.

“It is in fact nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiousity of inquiry. It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty.”
~ Albert Einstein
US (German-born) physicist (1879 – 1955)

“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.” ~ Abraham Lincoln

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically… Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education.” ~ Martin Luther King Jnr