Favorite Quotes

“You don’t raise heroes, you raise sons. And if you treat them like sons, they’ll turn out to be heroes,
even if it’s just in your own eyes.”
~Walter M. Schirra

"I don't want to drive up to the pearly gates in a shiny sports car, wearing beautiful tailored clothes, my hair expertly coiffed, and with long, perfectly manicured fingernails. I want to drive up in a station wagon that has mud on the wheels from taking kids to scout camp. I want to be there with grass stains on my shoes from mowing Sister Schenk's lawn. I want to be there with a smudge of peanut butter on my shirt from making sandwiches for a sick neighbor's children. I want to be there with a little dirt under my nails from helping weed someone's garden. I want to be there with children's sticky kisses on my cheek and the tears of a friend on my shoulder. I want the Lord to know I was really here and that I really lived."
~Marjorie Pay Hinckley

“He who angers you conquers you.”
~Elizabeth Kenny

“Don’t handicap your children by making their lives easy.”
~ Robert A. Heinlein

“Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.”
~Phyllis Diller

Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says ‘I’ll try again tomorrow.’”
~Mary Anne Radmacher

“You know the only people who are always sure about the proper way to raise children? Those who’ve never had any.”
~ Bill Cosby

“The best way to cheer yourself up is to cheer somebody else up.”
~Mark Twain

“There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.”
~Will Rogers

“I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.”
~ Bill Cosby

“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”
~ Eleanor Roosevelt

"Then said Jesus, "Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do ..."
~Luke 23:34~


"There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ ... "
~Galations 3:28~


The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.

~Mark Twain

Before you go and criticize the younger generation, just remember who raised them.

~Unknown Author

For attractive lips, speak words of kindness.
For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people.
For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry.
For beautiful hair, let a child run his or her fingers through it once a day.
For poise, walk with the knowledge that you never walk alone.
People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed and redeemed; never throw out anyone.
Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of each of your arms.
As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.
The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries or the way she combs her hair.
The beauty of a woman must be seen from in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides.
The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mode but the true beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It is the caring that she lovingly gives the passion that she shows. The beauty of a woman grows with the passing years.”
~ Audrey Hepburn