Monday, November 3, 2008

10 Favorite Quotes

"Fairy tales do not tell children that dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children that dragons can be killed."
- G.K. Chesterton

"Make no judgments where you have no compassion."
- Anne McCaffrey

"There are no events but thoughts and the heart’s hard turning, the heart’s slow learning where to love and whom. The rest is merely gossip, and tales for other times."
- Annie Dillard, Holy the Firm

“I think the way we are as we get older is a result of what we knew when we were children.”
- PJ Harvey

"All God’s children are not beautiful. Most of God’s children are, in fact, barely presentable."
- Fran Lebowitz

"Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not."
- Samuel Johnson

"Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts."
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan

"They always say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself."
- Andy Warhol

"Earth's the right place for love; I don't know where it's likely to go better"
- Robert Frost, “Birches”

"To grow up would be an awfully big adventure."
- Peter Pan, movie version

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