quotes about fathers and daughters

Everybody should have his personal sounds to listen for - sounds that will make him exhilarated and alive or quite and calm.... One of the greatest sounds of them all - and to me it is a sound - is utter, complete silence. ~Andre Kostelanetz


If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering if there are men on base. ~Dave Barry


Prejudices are the chains forged by ignorance to keep men apart. ~Countess of Blessington


Learn young about hard work and manners - and you'll be through the whole dirty mess and nicely dead again before you know it. ~F. Scott Fitzgerald


Look at the trees, look at the birds, look at the clouds, look at the stars... and if you have eyes you will be able to see that the whole existence is joyful. Everything is simply happy. Trees are happy for no reason; they are not going to become prime ministers or presidents and they are not going to become rich and they will never have any bank balance. Look at the flowers - for no reason. It is simply unbelievable how happy flowers are. ~Osho


We seldom enjoy leisure we haven't earned. ~Quoted in P.S. I Love You, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr. We semaphore from ship to ship, but they're sinking, too. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966


A man�s heart changes as often as does the autumn sky. ~Japanese Proverb


God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right even though I think it is hopeless. ~Chester W. Nimitz


In the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers. ~Richard Power


If God had wanted to be a big secret, He would not have created babbling brooks and whispering pines. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


I am thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out of my nose. ~Woody Allen


Just as much as we see in others we have in ourselves. ~William Hazlitt


The Old Year has gone. Let the dead past bury its own dead. The New Year has taken possession of the clock of time. All hail the duties and possibilities of the coming twelve months! ~Edward Payson Powell


A man's heart deviseth his way: but the Lord directeth his steps. ~Proverbs 16:9


Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor. ~Ogden Nash


Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie. ~Jean Cocteau


A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity. ~Thomas Jefferson


Civilization is hideously fragile... there's not much between us and the Horrors underneath, just about a coat of varnish. ~C.P. Snow


Will we march only to the music of time, or will we, risking criticism and abuse, march to the soul-saving music of eternity? ~Martin Luther King, Jr., Strength to Love, 1963


Most institutions demand unqualified faith; but the institution of science makes skepticism a virtue. ~Robert K. Merton, Social Theory, 1957