quotes on trust with pictures

Outcomes rarely turn on grand gestures or the art of the deal, but on whether you've sent someone a thank-you note. ~Bernie Brillstein, The Little Stuff Matters Most



If your children spend most of their time in other people's houses, you're lucky; if they all congregate at your house, you're blessed. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



It's not only children who grow. Parents do too. As much as we watch to see what our children do with their lives, they are watching us to see what we do with ours. I can't tell my children to reach for the sun. All I can do is reach for it, myself. ~Joyce Maynard



To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it. ~Confucius



Though I like the various forms of football in the world, I don't think they begin to compare with these two great Anglo-Saxon ball games for sophisticated elegance and symbolism. Baseball and cricket are beautiful and highly stylized medieval war substitutes, chess made flesh, a mixture of proud chivalry and base - in both senses - greed. With football we are back to the monotonous clashing armor of the brontosaurus. ~John Fowles



The story of barbecue is the story of America: Settlers arrive on great unspoiled continent, discover wondrous riches, set them on fire and eat them. ~Vince Staten



Losing streaks are funny. If you lose at the beginning, you get off to a bad start. If you lose in the middle of the season, you're in a slump. If you lose at the end, you're choking. ~Gene Mauch



Truth is rarely writ in ink; it lives in nature. ~Martin H. Fischer



If you can read this, you're not the president. ~Author Unknown



A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action. ~Jawaharlal Nehru



I intend to live forever. So far, so good. ~Steven Wright



Some people can hack it, others can't. ~Author Unknown



The highest virtue here may be least in another world. ~Kahlil Gibran



Nowadays, anyone who cannot speak English and is incapable of using the Internet is regarded as backward. ~Al-Waleed bin Talal



A mom forgives us all our faults, not to mention one or two we don't even have. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Children are one third of our population and all of our future. ~Select Panel for the Promotion of Child Health, 1981



It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry. ~H.L. Mencken



Libraries: The medicine chest of the soul. ~Library at Thebes, inscription over the door



We have learned to fly the air like birds and swim the sea like fish, but we have not learned the simple art of living together as brothers. Our abundance has brought us neither peace of mind nor serenity of spirit. ~Martin Luther King, Jr.



If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday. ~Pearl Buck