quotes

“We won't have a society if we destroy the environment.” Margaret Mead

“Since caveman days around the fire, humans have been hardwired for storytelling. Books, movies, television, advertising, news, speeches, even scientific reports, conference panels and, of course, relating our life experiences to one another - it’s all storytelling. It’s how we best learn.” Ronni Bennett http://ronnibennett.typepad.com/

"We are tricked by a phenomenon of time: Hours and days pass slowly, but years pass quickly. A life passes quickly, but we always think we have plenty of time.” Sally Warner

“The frog does not drink up the pond in which he lives.” Native American Proverb

"The anthropologist is an art historian. Humanity's footprints were left by the creators not by the bureaucrats. In looking at history, we are looking at art. To understand a culture we look at what they created." Ruth Vaughan

"Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings." Arthur Rubinstein (1886 - 1982)

“Wherever you are, it is your friends who make your world.” William James

“Let proportion be found not only in numbers and measures, but also in sounds, weights, times, and positions, and what ever force there is.” Leonardo DaVinci

“Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age.” Christopher Morley

"When you have confidence, you can have a lot of fun. And when you have fun, you can do amazing things." Joe Namath

"If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun." Katharine Hepburn

"Audacity augments courage; hesitation enhances fear." Nigerian Proverb

"He's the best physician who knows the worthlessness of the most medicines." Benjamin Franklin, statesman, author, and inventor (1706-1790)

"War would end if the dead could return." Stanley Baldwin, statesman (1867-1947)

"We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home."Edward R. Murrow, journalist (1908-1965)

I"t is not bigotry to be certain we are right; but it is bigotry to be unable to imagine how we might possibly have gone wrong." G.K. Chesterton, essayist and novelist (1874-1936)

"Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third." Marge Piercy

"The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it." Harry Emerson Fosdick

“Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.” Norman Vincent Peale

“I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.” Thomas Jefferson, 3rd US president, architect and author (1743-1826)

“Darkness cannot overcome darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot overcome hate; only love can do that.” Martin Luther King, Jr.