happy birthday father poems

Some people think that prayer just means asking for things, and if they fail to receive exactly what they asked for, they think the whole thing is a fraud. ~Gerald Vann



Did you ever walk into a room and forget why you walked in? I think that is how dogs spend their lives. ~Sue Murphy



To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves. ~Will and Ariel Durant



Benjamin Franklin: "And that means that as a nation, we could go to war with whomever we wished, but at the same time act like we didn't want to. If we allow the people to protest what the government does, then the country will be forever blameless."



I had no idea that history was being made. I was just tired of giving up. ~Rosa Parks



The first step... shall be to lose the way. ~Galway Kinnell



We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business? ~Will Rogers



You don't have to hold a position in order to be a leader. ~Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book



Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them. ~Marcel Proust



When truth is divided, errors multiply. ~Eli Siegel, Damned Welcome



Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion. ~Francis Bacon



To me the ideal doctor would be a man endowed with profound knowledge of life and of the soul, intuitively divining any suffering or disorder of whatever kind, and restoring peace by his mere presence. ~Henri Amiel



We were all involved in the death of John Kennedy. We tolerated hate; we tolerated the sick stimulation of violence in all walks of life; and we tolerated the differential application of law, which said that a man's life was sacred only if we agreed with his views. ~Martin Luther King, Jr., Why We Can't Wait, 1963



We say we love flowers, yet we pluck them. We say we love trees, yet we cut them down. And people still wonder why some are afraid when told they are loved. ~Author Unknown



Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence - those are the three pillars of Western prosperity. ~Aldous Huxley, Island



Ice hockey players can walk on water. ~Author Unknown



The human spirit is stronger than anything that can happen to it. ~C.C. Scott



It is not enough for a man to know how to ride; he must know how to fall. ~Mexican Proverb



One is a member of a country, a profession, a civilization, a religion. One is not just a man. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Wartime Writings 1939-1944, translated from French by Norah Purcell



There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America. ~William J. Clinton