quotes about tears

No child but must remember laying his head in the grass, staring into the infinitesimal forest and seeing it grow populous with fairy armies. ~Robert Louis Stevenson, Essays in The Art of Writing



When hope is hungry, everything feeds it. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



I am not certain of the hereafter. Frankly, I'm not all that certain of the here. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



I swing before your eyes as a bright gleam of color, a symbol of yourself, the pictured suggestion of that big thing which makes this nation. My stars and my stripes are your dream and your labors. They are bright with cheer, brilliant with courage, firm with faith, because you have made them so out of your heart. For you are the makers of the flag and it is well that you glory in the making. ~Franklin Knight Lane



It's like going into a nuclear war with bows and arrows. ~Joe Kinnear, comparing finances and resources in high-dollar and low-dollar sports teams



The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they allow. Bigness means weakness. ~Eric Sevareid, "The Press and the People," television program, 1959



I have been studying the traits and dispositions of the "lower animals" (so called) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man. I find the result humiliating to me. ~Mark Twain, Letters from the Earth, 1907



The artist's only responsibility is his art. He will be completely ruthless if he is a good one.... If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate: The "Ode on a Grecian Urn" is worth any number of old ladies. ~Faulkner, quoted in M. Cowley, Writers at Work, 1958



Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety. ~William Shakespeare



Certain peer pressures encourage little fingers to learn how to hold a football instead of a crayon. Rumors circulate around the schoolyard: kids who draw or wear white socks and bring violins to school on Wednesdays might have cooties. I confess to having yielded to these pressures. ~Chris Van Allsburg



The trouble with having a stubbornness contest with your kids is that they have your stubbornness gene. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



The art of life is the art of avoiding pain. ~Thomas Jefferson



A mind of the caliber of mine cannot derive its nutriment from cows. ~George Bernard Shaw



He is invariably in a hurry. Being in a hurry is one of the tributes he pays to life. ~Elizabeth Bibesco



Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. ~Kahlil Gibran



The cunning competitor plays on the other party's guilt. Continuously praise your opponent's shots, and you'll notice how he begins to press. Self-beratement also serves to balance a guilty conscience for being successful and makes your opponent disturbed for upsetting you so. If on occasion you call one of your opponent's "out" shots "in," then later on you can innocently call an "in" shot "out" on a crucial play. Practice saying "Good try," sincerely; then you can call a lot of close shots "out" and get away with it. ~Theodor Saretsky



I'm not sure what makes pepperoni so good - if it's the pepper or the oni. ~Ulrik Stephens



Where there is no imagination there is no horror. ~Arthur Conan Doyle, Sr.



Washington's is the mightiest name of earth - long since mightiest in the cause of civil liberty; still mightiest in moral reformation. On that name no eulogy is expected. It cannot be. To add brightness to the sun, or glory to the name of Washington, is alike impossible. Let none attempt it. In solemn awe pronounce the name, and in its naked deathless splendor leave it shining on. ~Abraham Lincoln



A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs - jolted by every pebble in the road. ~Henry Ward Beecher