It's Been Longer

The moment a child is born,
the mother is also born.
She never existed before.
The woman existed, but the mother, never.
A mother is something absolutely new.
-Rajneesh

It's Been Awhile.

I'm lazy. But it's the lazy people who invented the wheel and the bicycle because they didn't like walking or carrying things.
-Lech Walesa

Easter

As we approach this Easter season, it is a priceless blessing to know that Jesus Christ lives, that He is the Redeemer and Savior of all mankind and the Son of God. We declare to all that Jesus Christ is “the way, the truth, and the life” (John 14:6).

The first Easter, the resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ, is the greatest and most significant miracle of all time.

We testify that the Resurrection was literal and real. Our Savior brought to every person who will ever live on this earth the privilege of once again having a body, of living again. Even though it has been nearly two thousand years since the Savior lived on the earth, His teachings still apply today. He gave us a practical guide for living in peace.

We urge all people to search the Savior’s life for truths that will guide and give meaning to their lives. He died that we might live. We worship Him and invite all to do likewise.

-President Ezra Taft Benson, President Gordon B. Hinckley, President Thomas S. Monson, 1992.

Edgar W. Howe

If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers.

-Edgar W. Howe

Gene McSweeney

We try to grab pieces of our lives as they speed past us. Photographs freeze those pieces and help us remember how we were.

-Gene McSweeney

Iris Murdoch

Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.

-Iris Murdoch

Sandra Boynton

Carob is a brown powder made from the pulverized fruit of a Mediterranean evergreen. Some consider carob an adequate substitute for chocolate because it has some similar nutrients (calcium, phosphorus), and because it can, when combined with vegetable fat and sugar, be made to approximate the color and consistency of chocolate. Of course, the same arguments can as persuasively be made in favor of dirt.

-Sandra Boynton

Joseph Addison

Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.

-Joseph Addison

Arturo Toscanini

Assassins!

-Arturo Toscanini to his orchestra

Churchill

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.

-Sir Winston Churchill

Bertrand Russell

A sense of duty is useful in work, but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not be endured with patient resignation.

-Bertrand Russell

Rita Rudner

I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

-Rita Rudner

Louis Fabian Bachrach

The departure of our boys to foreign parts with the ever-present possibility that they might never return, taught the real value of photography to every father and mother. To many a mother the photograph of her boy in his country's uniform was the one never-failing consolation.

-Louis Fabian Bachrach

Shakespeare

And thus I clothe my naked villainy
With old odd ends, stol'n forth of holy writ;
And seem a saint, when most I play the devil.

-William Shakespeare

Jack Handey

It's probably not a good idea to be chewing on a toothpick if you're talking to the president, because what if he tells a funny joke and you laugh so hard you spit the toothpick out and it hits him in the face or something.

-Jack Handey

That's One Smart Cookie

All that we are is a result of what we have thought.

-my fortune cookie

Barbara Kingsolver

But the last one: the baby who trails her scent like a flag of surrender through your life when there will be no more coming after- oh, that's love by a different name. She is the babe you hold an hour in your arms after she's gone to sleep. If you put her down in the crib, she might wake up changed and fly away. So instead, you rock her by the window, drinking light from her skin, breathing her exhaled dreams. Your heart bays to the double crescent moons of closed lashes on her cheeks. She's the one you can't put down.

- Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible.

Suzanne Necker

Fortune does not change men, it unmasks them.

-Suzanne Necker

Siblings

I am so lucky to have 8 siblings! I love having such a big family. My brother got married today and it was the first time we have all been together in one place in over two years. So, you guessed it, quotes about siblings. I love you guys!

Sometimes being a brother is even better than being a superhero. -Marc Brown

I don't believe an accident of birth makes people sisters or brothers. It makes them siblings, gives them mutuality of parentage. Sisterhood and brotherhood is a condition people have to work at. -Maya Angelou

Our siblings push buttons that cast us in roles we felt sure we had let go of long ago - the baby, the peacekeeper, the caretaker, the avoider.... It doesn't seem to matter how much time has elapsed or how far we've traveled. -Jane Mersky Leder

Children of the same family, the same blood, with the same first associations and habits, have some means of enjoyment in their power, which no subsequent connections can supply... -Jane Austen, Mansfield Park, 1814

To the outside world we all grow old. But not to brothers and sisters. We know each other as we always were. We know each other's hearts. We share private family jokes. We remember family feuds and secrets, family griefs and joys. We live outside the touch of time. -Clara Ortega

The family. We were a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another’s desserts, hiding shampoo, borrowing money, locking each other out of our rooms, inflicting pain and kissing to heal it in the same instant, loving, laughing, defending, and trying to figure out the common thread that bound us all together. -Erma Bombeck

Sisters

My little brother is getting married tomorrow and so my sisters will all be in town. In honor of them I am posting a few quotes today, all about sisters.

Having a sister is like having a best friend you can't get rid of. You know whatever you do, they'll still be there. ~Amy Li

A sister is a little bit of childhood that can never be lost. ~Marion C. Garretty

Is solace anywhere more comforting than in the arms of a sister. ~Alice Walker

If you don't understand how a woman could both love her sister dearly and want to wring her neck at the same time, then you were probably an only child. ~Linda Sunshine

There can be no situation in life in which the conversation of my dear sister will not administer some comfort to me. ~Mary Montagu

Sister to sister we will always be,
A couple of nuts off the family tree.
~Author Unknown

Between sisters, often, the child's cry never dies down. "Never leave me," it says; "do not abandon me." ~Louise Bernikow

Michael Drayton

Must, bid the Morn awake!
Sad Winter now declines,
Each bird doth choose a mate;
This day's Saint Valentine's.
For that good bishop's sake
Get up and let us see
What beauty it shall be
That Fortune us assigns.

-Michael Drayton (1563 - 1631)

Ellen DeGeneres

My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is.

-Ellen DeGeneres

Gordon B. Hinckley

The time has come for us to stand a little taller, to lift our eyes and stretch our minds to a greater comprehension and understanding of the grand millennial mission of this The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. This is a season to be strong. It is a time to move forward without hesitation, knowing well the meaning, the breadth, and the importance of our mission. It is a time to do what is right regardless of the consequences that might follow. It is a time to be found keeping the commandments. It is a season to reach out with kindness and love to those in distress and to those who are wandering in darkness and pain. It is a time to be considerate and good, decent and courteous toward one another in all of our relationships. In other words, to become more Christlike.

-Gordon B. Hinckley ("This Is the Work of the Master," Ensign, May 1995)