birthday quotes for grandma

It ain't nothin' till I call it. ~Bill Klem, umpire



Strikeouts are boring - besides that, they're fascist. Throw some ground balls. More democratic. ~From the movie Bull Durham



I could prove God statistically. Take the human body alone - the chances that all the functions of an individual would just happen is a statistical monstrosity. ~George Gallup I could smell myself awake with that coffee. ~Jaesse Tyler



Light, God's eldest daughter... ~Thomas Fuller



Talk doesn't cook rice. ~Chinese Proverb



He gave the world another world. ~George Santayana



Everything we possess that is not necessary for life or happiness becomes a burden, and scarcely a day passes that we do not add to it. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



My heaviness comes from the heights. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin



To him in whom love dwells, the whole world is but one family. ~Buddha



Boast not thyself of to morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth. ~Proverbs 27:1



To get something done a committee should consist of no more than three people, two of whom are absent. ~Robert Copeland



Sweat silently. Let's have no squawking about a little expenditure of energy. ~Martin H. Fischer



Eat, drink and be scary. ~Author Unknown



It takes more strength of character to withstand good fortune than bad. ~La Rochefoucauld, Reflections, 1665



The artist does not see things as they are, but as he is. ~Alfred Tonnelle



He who has nothing to die for has nothing to live for. ~Moroccan Proverb



A lively and lasting sense of filial duty is more effectually impressed on the mind of a son or daughter by reading King Lear, than by all the dry volumes of ethics, and divinity, that ever were written. ~Thomas Jefferson



Those who are brutally honest are seldom so with themselves. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



Souls wouldn't wear suits and ties, they'd wear blue jeans and sit cross-legged with a glass of red wine. ~Carrie Latet



I quit being afraid when my first venture failed and the sky didn't fall down. ~Allen H. Neuharth