Great & Meaningful Quotes

[Pepper]

"All Americans ought to be unnerved by anything that tries to stop the flow of learning, knowledge and truth."
~~Kellie Carter Jackson, associate professor in the Department of Africana Studies at Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts, U.S.

Is this recent?

 

[officerripley]

Is this recent?

Yes, it's an Opinion piece on cnn.com; here's the link: https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/15/opinions/florida-teach-in-slavery-history-carter-jackson/index.html

 

[Pink Biz]

“Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect.”

— Chief Seattle

 

[Pink Biz]

 

[oscash]

WE ARE ALL HERE ON EARTH TO HELP OTHERS.
WHAT ON EARTH THE OTHERS ARE HERE FOR I DON'T KNOW.

PEOPLE SAY NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE, BUT I DO NOTHING EVERY DAY. A, A, MILNE

 

[Dustbunny]

 

[-Oy-]

A closed mouth gathers no foot!

 

[s76l42]

“I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.”
― Albert Einstein

 

[timoc]

"Mam..... Mam.... Mam, can I have an ice cream?"

 

[officerripley]

...[A]ll friendships of any length are based on a continued, mutual forgiveness.

~~David Whyte, poet and philosopher

 

[DebraMae]

 

[Alligatorob]

...[A]ll friendships of any length are based on a continued, mutual forgiveness.

I don't know, not many things I feel the need to forgive my friends for. Maybe I am just too tolerant, or oblivious...

 

[Pink Biz]

 

[officerripley]

...If there is any matter upon which civilized countries have agreed--it is the evil of premature and excessive child labor.

~~U.S. Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

 

[officerripley]

It may be true that morality cannot be legislated but behavior can be regulated. It may be true that the law cannot change the heart, but it can restrain the heartless. It may be true that the law can't make a man love me...but it can restrain him from lynching me and I think that's pretty important.
~~Martin Luther King, Jr., University of California-Los Angeles, 4/27/1965

 

[officerripley]

...the care of human life and happiness and not their destruction is the first and only legitimate object of good government.
~~Thomas Jefferson

 

[squatting dog]

"Just because a snake is old, doesn't mean his venom is any less deadly".

 

[DebraMae]

 

[oscash]

We are all lying in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars. Oscar Wilde.

 

[Naturally]

Adulthood has shown me you don't really need fun to have alcohol ~ Abraham Lincoln

 

[officerripley]

I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all.

~~Alexis de Tocqueville

 

[Dustbunny]

I found this quote that I liked and put it on this image. In case you can't read it, I will quote it:

"A bird sitting on a tree is never afraid of the branch breaking,
because it's trust is not on the branch but in it's ability to fly." - Unknown

 

[Wren]

 

[Dustbunny]

We don't devote enough scientific research to finding a cure for jerks. - Bill Watterson

 

[squatting dog]

Trust takes years to build
Seconds to break
and forever to repair