quotes on brothers and sisters

Half the promises people say were never kept, were never made. ~Edgar Watson Howe



The NBA is never just a business. It's always business. It's always personal. All good businesses are personal. The best businesses are very personal. ~Mark Cuban



Liberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions. ~Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary



Without geography, you're nowhere. ~Author Unknown



Americans think of themselves collectively as a huge rescue squad on twenty-four-hour call to any spot on the globe where dispute and conflict may erupt. ~Eldridge Cleaver



Sherman made the terrible discovery that men make about their fathers sooner or later... that the man before him was not an aging father but a boy, a boy much like himself, a boy who grew up and had a child of his own and, as best he could, out of a sense of duty and, perhaps love, adopted a role called Being a Father so that his child would have something mythical and infinitely important: a Protector, who would keep a lid on all the chaotic and catastrophic possibilities of life. ~Tom Wolfe, The Bonfire of the Vanities



I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring. ~James McNeill Whistler



Remember the street car cannot turn out. ~Charles M. Hayes



Christmas is the time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell government what they want and their kids pay for it. ~Richard Lamm



Curiosity is little more than another name for Hope. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827



The time to begin most things is ten years ago. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame. ~Song of Solomon 8:6



The trouble with our age is that it is all signposts and no destination. ~The War Cry



You will find something more in woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you that which you can never learn from masters. ~St. Bernard



A critic once characterized baseball as six minutes of action crammed into two-and-one-half hours. ~Ray Fitzgerald, in Boston Glove, 1970



The only man who can change his mind is a man that's got one. ~Edward Noyes Westcott



If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago. If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos. ~Edward O. Wilson



Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud. ~Hermann Hesse



Let him who looks for a monument to Washington look around the United States. Your freedom, your independence, your national power, your prosperity, and your prodigious growth are a monument to him. ~Louis Kossuth



Music is what feelings sound like. ~Author Unknown