Favorite quotes

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<p>Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. ~Thomas Edison</p>

<p>Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called the present. ~Unknown</p>

<p>Try not. Do or do not. There is no try. ~Yoda</p>

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<p>Government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.
Ronald Reagan
and
Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don’t want them to become politicians in the process.
John F. Kennedy</p>

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<p>My favorite quotes tend to come from the jolting period of my life when my charmed life crumbled and I realized I had a lot of life ahead, and no idea what to do with it. In no particular order, here they are:</p>

<p>“Life’s journey is not to arrive at the grave safely in a well preserved body,
but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting …'holy xxxx…
what a ride!”</p>

<p>“If I had a magic wand, BELIEVE ME, I would have waved it QUITE A WHILE AGO.<br>
(Actually, if I had a magic wand, it would probably be stuck somewhere
unpleasant at this point).”</p>

<p>"Courage does not always roar. Sometimes it is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying ‘I’ll try again tomorrow’ "</p>

<p>“Inside every older person is a younger person wondering,
‘What the heck happened?’”</p>

<p>“Just remember - if the world didn’t suck, we would all fall off.”</p>

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<p>This quote from Kurt Vonnegut is rather specialized, but other parents of art school students will know exactly why I relate to it:</p>

<p>“If you really want to hurt your parents and you don’t have the nerve to be gay, the least you can do is go into the arts. The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way to make life more bearable.”</p>

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<p>From Miss Frizzle of Magic School Bus fame:</p>

<p>“Take chances, make mistakes, get messy.”</p>

<p>Words we lived by when the kids were little…didn’t want them to have a fear of failure which could lead to fear of trying anything new.</p>

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<p>For PARENTS:</p>

<p>“Prepare the child for the road, not the road for the child.”</p>

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<p>lspf72 - now that is the most appropriate quote for this forum!</p>

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<p>Courage is being scared to death…and saddling up anyway. John Wayne</p>

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<p>“…Not all those who wander are lost”—J.R.R. Tolkien</p>

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<p>lilmom - The one and only time I saw that quote was in a shop, engraved on a fake rock of all things! I later regretted not buying it-</p>

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<p>Have this one hanging in our house: </p>

<p>“Raising teenagers is like trying to nail jello to a tree” - Unknown</p>

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<p>On the marquis of a local business:</p>

<p>Hire a teenager while he still knows everything.</p>

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<p>“And I am sure that I never read any memorable news in a newspaper. If we read of one man robbed, or murdered, or killed by accident, or one house burned, or one vessel wrecked, or one steamboat blown up, or one cow run over on the Western Railroad, or one mad dog killed, or one lot of grasshoppers in the winter — we never need read of another. One is enough. If you are acquainted with the principle, what do you care for a myriad instances and applications? To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.”</p>

<p>Henry David Thoreau</p>

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<p>“Legen-wait for it-dary!!!”</p>

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<p>“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”</p>

<p>Thomas A. Edison</p>