Sunday Sayings (8/29)

“I could rattle off tomes of statistics about disparity. I could talk about the wealth gap, the job gap, the wage gap and the health gap. I could speak in erudite and intellectual terms about income, health and equality in America. But I don’t have to: Katrina did that for me through images of people suffering. It was through reality’s lens that Americans witnessed the tragedy not through a full-length movie or cheap sound byte. But the images seen on most Americans’ television sets nearly a year ago were not just pictures of my hometown. They represented people in poverty in urban areas all over the nation.”

- 2006, Marc H. Morial, President and CEO of the National Urban League

Sunday Sayings (8/22)

“If a man is pictured chopping off a woman's breast, it only gets a R rating, but if, God forbid, a man is pictured kissing a woman's breast, it gets an X rating. Why is violence more acceptable than tenderness?”

- Sally Struthers

Sunday Sayings (8/8)

Losing hope is easy, when your only friend is gone, and every time you look around, well, it all, it all just seems to change. But hanging on is easy when you've got a friend to call, when nothings making sense at all. You're not the only one that's afraid of change

- lyrics to Jack Johnson’s “Losing Hope”

Sunday Sayings (8/1)

“I've never let my school interfere with my education.”

- Mark Twain

Sunday Sayings (7/18)

The best things in life aren’t free… kids are expensive as hell.

- by me

Sunday Sayings (7/4)

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security.

- The Declaration of Independence

Sunday Sayings (5/30)

"son (sun) n. [ME ] 1. a collector of treasures and heroes 2. a source of found objects in laundry (e.g., rocks, twigs, etc.) 3. his father's pride and his mother's heart. SYN.-an adventure (ad ven'cher)"

Unknown

Sunday Sayings (5/23)

“Too many people grow up. That’s the trouble with the world, too many people grow up. They forget. They don’t remember what it’s like to be 12 years old. They patronize, they treat children as inferiors. Well I won’t do that.”

- Walt Disney

Sunday Sayings (5/16)

“The Lord is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit.”

Psalm 34:18

Sunday Sayings (4/25)

"A daughter is a miracle that never ceases to be miraculous… full of beauty and forever beautiful… loving and caring and truly amazing."

- Deanna Beisser

Sunday Sayings (4/4)

Behold, children are a heritage from the LORD, the fruit of the womb a reward. Like arrows in the hand of a warrior are the children of one’s youth. Blessed is the man who fills his quiver with them! He shall not be put to shame when he speaks with his enemies in the gate.

Psalms 127:3-5

Sunday Sayings (3/28)

"Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear."

John Lennon

Sunday Sayings (3/21)

“Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.”

Dr. Seuss

Sunday Sayings (3/14)

From your head to your toes
You're not much, goodness knows
But you're so precious to me
Cute as can be, baby of mine

From the song Baby Mine by Ned Washington from Disney's movie Dumbo

Sunday Sayings (3/7)

"The time has come," the Walrus said,
"To talk of many things:
Of shoes--and ships--and sealing-wax--
Of cabbages--and kings--
And why the sea is boiling hot--
And whether pigs have wings."

From Lewis Carroll's "Through the Looking Glass"

Sunday Sayings (2/28)

"What a horrible candle-snuffing word. That's like saying, "He can't climb that mountain, he's just a man", or "That's not a diamond, it's just a rock."'

- from Finding Neverland