Nature Songs and Quotes~~~~

Quotes which I happen across and they have some special significant meaning for me ... Most are from clippings saved throughout the years.


Aristotle, Philosopher:
"Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit."


Bernard Berenson, Art Historian:
"Miracles happen to those who believe in them."


Bernard Berenson, Art Historian:
"Miracles happen to those who believe in them."


Yogi Berra:
"If I didn't wake up, I'd still be sleeping."



U.S. Representative Sonny Bono (R-California) in a National Enquirer article, "I'm living Proof You Can Have the American Dream":
"Don't let a lack of qualifications stop you from pursuing your career goals. I was never qualified for any of the positions I achieved."


President George Bush, on the terrorist attacks
"Make no mistake, the United States will hunt down and punish those responsible for these cowardly acts."


PRESIDENT BUSH:
"The battle is now joined on many fronts. We will not waver, we will not tire, we will not falter and we will not fail. Peace and freedom will prevail."


C. W. Ceram
"Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple."


Winston Churchill (1874-1965) - British Prime Minister, writer:
"There is nothing more exhilarating than to be shot at without result."


Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) - Roman philosopher and pennypincher:
"Cannot people realize how large an income is thrift?"


'Coca-Cola', as originally translated into Chinese:
"Bite the wax tadpole."


Win Couchman, Writer and Speaker
"I want to be excited, thrilled, ecstatic about all sorts of things as long as I live."


Giobbe Covatta - Italian writer:
"From St Paul's second letter to the Corithians: 'Dear Corinthians, you could have at least replied to the first ...'"


William Cowper (1731-1800) - British writer:
"An idler is a watch that wants both hands,As useless if it goes as if it stands."


Benjamin Disraeli, British Prime Minister:
"Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think."


Charles Dickens, Author
Reflect upon your blessings, of which every man has plenty, not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some."


François, duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680):
"The pleasure of love is in loving. We are happier in the passion we feel than in that we inspire."


Dwight D. Eisenhower:
Forget your age: "I am saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am."


Duke Ellington, Musician
"A problem is your chance to do your best."


Barbara Jeanne Fisher:
"Life's greatest blessing is a new sunrise. When I see that, I know I am still alive, and have at least one more day to make into something special."


Theodor Fontane, German Author (1819-1898):
"Happiness, it seems to me, consists of two things: first, in being where you belong, and second - and best - in comfortably going through everyday life, that is, having had a good night’s sleep and not being hurt by new shoes."


Declaration of the Rights of Man - French National Assembly 1789:
"Ignorance, forgetfulness, or contempt of the rights of man are the only causes of public misfortunes and of the corruption of governments."


Indira Gandhi:
"You can't shake hands with a clenched fist."


Gabriel Heatter, Journalist:
"More power than all the success slogans ever penned by human hand is the realization for every man that he has but one boss. That boss is the man -- he -- himself."


Henry Ford, Industrialist
"If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability."


Benjamin Franklin:
"What's a Sun-Dial in the shade?"


Mahatma Gandhi:
"I believe that if one man gains spiritually the whole world gains with him and, if one man falls, the whole world falls to that extent."

Kahlil Gibran, Lebanese Poet & Novelist:
"Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolutions."


John Kenneth Galbraith
"Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue."


Kahlil Gibran
"The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply."


Bhagavad Gita:
"I am the feminine qualities: fame, beauty perfect speech, memory, intelligence, loyalty, and forgiveness."


William Hazlitt, English Essayist:
"Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater"


John Oliver Hobbes
"A man with a career can have no time to waste upon his wife and friends; he has to devote it wholly to his enemies."


Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr, U.S. Supreme Court Justice
"When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happen tomorrow, I look back."


Victor Hugo (1802–1885) - French novelist:
"A Mother’s arms are made of tenderness, and sweet sleep blesses the child who lies therein."


Penelope Keith
"Shyness is just egoism out of its depth."


Sarah Kennedy, British Radio 2:
"There's nothing wrong with pregnancy. Half the people wouldn't be here today if it wasn't for women being pregnant."


Brian Koslow
"Forget the lottery. Bet on yourself instead."


Chow Ching Lie, Chinese author and classical pianist:
"It is truly said: It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide what to do."


George MacDonald:
“Nothing makes one feel so strong as a call for help.”


Nelson Mandela - South African president:
"Only free men can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts."


Uncle Scrooge McDuck- a relative of Donald Duck
"Gold isn't everything ...there are also diamonds!"


Donald H. McGannon:
"Leadership is action, not position."


John Miller:
"People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve."


Milton Mayeroff, Author:
"Love is the selfless promotion of the growth of the other."


Frank Muir (1920-1998) - British humourist:
"Wit is a weapon. Jokes are a masculine way of inflicting superiority. But humour is the pursuit of a gentle grin, usually in solitude."


Keshavan Nair, Author and Professor
"Change cannot be avoided. Change provides the opportunity for innovation. It gives you the chance to demonstrate your creativity."


George Jean Nathan
"Love demands infinitely less than friendship."


COLIN L. POWELL, secretary of state:
"Terrorism really flourishes in areas of poverty, despair and hopelessness, where people see no future."


CARRIE QUILL, who ran the New York City Marathon:
"The mood was so positive; people were so proud to be out there. To see the firemen and policemen out there cheering for us for something that seems so inconsequential, it was just beautiful."


Richard D. Rippe, economist, on the July,2001,unemployment report:
"You can find a few glimmers of hope beneath the surface, but nothing absolutely definitive to indicate that there is an upturn or that one will emerge soon."


John Ruskin
"When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package."


Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) - philosopher:
"One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important."


Rosalind Russel:
"Flops are a part of life's menu, and I'm never a girl to miss out on a course."


Sallust
"Each man the architect of his own fate."


George Santayana, philosopher (1863-1952):
"A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world."


Florence S. Shinn
"If one asks for success and prepares for failure, he will get the situation he has prepared for."


Socrates
"He is richest who is content with the least. For content is the wealth of nature."


Adlai Stevenson:
"Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them."


W. Clement Stone, Business Leader and Author
"If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking-by all means ask!"


Albert Schweitzer:
"Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals."


Roy Smith:
"The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man."


Charles H. Spurgeon
"By perseverance the snail reached the ark."


Jonathan Swift
"Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping."


Thomas Szasz (1920-) - psychiatrist:
"Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly often attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children."


Deborah Tannen, Author:
"Cooperation isn't the absence of conflict but a means of managing conflict. "


Frank Tibolt, Author:
" We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action."


J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973) - author The Lord of the Rings:
"All that is gold does not glitter; not all those that wander are lost."


Sgi Tsulehisanvhi:
"How we fought for our land is written in blood, look at your tracks before you speak of anothers faults"


Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Architect
"It is better to be good than to be original."


BARTHOLOMEW VOORSANGER, an architect, on remnants collected from the World Trade Center:
"Your house is burning down, you run back in, what do you save? You're just not trained to do that, so you go by your instincts."


Georgia state senator Ronnie Walker on the need for a traveling electric chair that would traverse the state for county executions:
"Folks read about the electric chair, they hear about it -- but those folks with criminal minds don't care about the law. But if they see that chair moving down the highway, it may save a life."


Woodrow Wilson:
"To do things today exactly the way you did them yesterday saves thinking."


Henry Winkler, Actor:
"Your mind knows only some things. Your inner voice,your instinct, knows everything. If you listen to what you know instinctively, it will always lead you down the right path."


Zarathushtra.. about 1738 B.C.:
"Let us be among those who renew this world and bring prosperity & solace to creation"


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