"Moddest is hottest"

 

"You are just like a great pair of rain boots. You’re bright and you’re always shiny even when we’re getting rained on."

"Write me a list of things you’d like for your birthday, and I’ll write you a list of things I can afford. I bet I can finish mine first."

"This year I wanted to give you the best present in the world, but you’re already friends with me so you’ll have to settle for the second best."

"Friends know the answers to the questions we don’t know how to ask."

"Stand for something or you`ll fall for anything"

  • Great necessities call out great virtues. --Abigail Adams (1744-1818, First Lady to John Adams 2nd President of the United States)

  • Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.
    -- Abigail Adams (1744-1818, First Lady to John Adams 2nd President of the United States)

  • If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice or representation. -- Abigail Adams (1744-1818, First Lady to John Adams 2nd President of the United States)

    Louisa May Alcott

  • Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead. -- Louisa May Alcott (1855-1888 teacher, nurse in WWI, wrote Little Women, publisher)

  • Make each day useful and cheerful and prove that you know the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be happy, old age without regret and life a beautiful success. - Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888, American Author )

    Cathy Allen

  • Life brings simple pleasures to us every day. It is up to us to make them wonderful memories. - Cathy Allen

    Kathleen Andrus

  • I am responsible for my own well being, my own happiness. The choices and decisions I make regarding my life directly influences the quality of my days. - Kathleen Andrus


      Maya Angelou

    • Growing Older
      When I was in my younger days, I weighed a few pounds less,
      I needn't hold my tummy in to wear a belted dress.
      But now that I am older, I've set my body free;
      There's the comfort of elastic... Where once my waist would be.
      Inventor of those high-heeled shoes... My feet have not forgiven;
      I have to wear a nine now, But used to wear a seven.
      And how about those pantyhose
      They're sized by weight, you see, So how come when I put them on
      The crotch is at my knee?
      I need to wear these glasses... As the print's been getting smaller;
      And it wasn't very long ago I know that I was taller.
      Though my hair has turned to gray and my skin no longer fits,
      On the inside, I'm the same old me, It's the outside's changed a bit.
      But, on a positive note...
      I've learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today,
      life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
      I've learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way he/she handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights.
      I've learned that regardless of your relationship with your parents, you'll miss them when they're gone from your life.
      I've learned that making a "living" is not the same thing as making a "life".
      I've learned that life sometimes gives you a second chance.
      I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands. You need to be able to throw something back.
      I've learned that whenever I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision.
      I've learned that even when I have pains, I don't have to be one.
      I've learned that every day you should reach out and touch someone. People love a warm hug, or just a friendly pat on the back.
      I've learned that I still have a lot to learn.
      I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
      - Maya Angelou (b.1928 poet, historian, author, actress, playwright, civil-rights activist, producer and director)

    • If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. And don't complain. - Maya Angelou (b1928 poet, historian, author, actress, playwright, civil-rights activist, producer and director)

    • One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest. - Maya Angelou (b.1928 poet, historian, author, actress, playwright, civil-rights activist, producer and director)

      Susan B. Anthony

    • Cautious, careful people always casting about to preserve their reputation or social standards never can bring about reform. Those who are really in earnest are willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation, and publicly and privately, in season and out, avow their sympathies with despised ideas and their advocates, and bear the consequences. - Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906,teacher and suffragette women rights movement in 1852 along side Elizabeth Cady Stanton and spoke against slavery)

    • The day will come when men will recognize woman as his peer, not only at the fireside, but in councils of the nation. Then, and not until then, will there be the perfect comradeship, the ideal union between the sexes that shall result in the highest development of the race. - Susan B. Anthony - founding mother of 19th century American Feminism

    • The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball - the further I am rolled the more I gain. - Susan B. Anthony - founding mother of 19th century American Feminism

      Lucille Ball

    • I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can. - Lucille Ball (1911-1989, American movie and TV Actress and comidian)

      Countess of Blessington

    • Prejudices are the chains forged by ignorance to keep men apart. - Countess of Blessington (1789-1849).

      Erma Bombeck

    • All of us have moments in out lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them. -- Erma Bombeck (1927-1996 author of many comedy books, columnist and ABC news reporter)

    • Anybody who watches three games of football in a row should be declared brain dead. -- Erma Bombeck (1927-1996 author of many comedy books, columnist and ABC news reporter)

    • Before you try to keep up with the Joneses, be sure they're not trying to keep up with you. -- Erma Bombeck (1927-1996 author of many comedy books, columnist and ABC news reporter)

    • Car designers are just going to have to come up with an automobile that outlasts the payments. -- Erma Bombeck (1927-1996 author of many comedy books, columnist and ABC news reporter)

    • Children make your life important. -- Erma Bombeck (1927-1996 author of many comedy books, columnist and ABC news reporter)

    • Did you ever notice that the first piece of luggage on the carousel never belongs to anyone? -- Erma Bombeck (1927-1996 author of many comedy books, columnist and ABC news reporter)

    • Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other. -- Erma Bombeck (1927-1996 author of many comedy books, columnist and ABC news reporter)

    • The Grass is always green over the septic tank. - Erma Bombeck (1927-1996 author of many comedy books, columnist and ABC news reporter)

    • Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving. -- Erma Bombeck (1927-1996 author of many comedy books, columnist and ABC news reporter)

    • Housework, if you do it right, will kill you. -- Erma Bombeck (1927-1996 author of many comedy books, columnist and ABC news reporter)

    • Humorists can never start to take themselves seriously. It's literary suicide. -- Erma Bombeck (1927-1996 author of many comedy books, columnist and ABC news reporter)

    • I was too old for a paper route, too young for Social Security and too tired for an affair. -- Erma Bombeck (1927-1996 author of many comedy books, columnist and ABC news reporter)

    • If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead. - Erma Bombeck (1927-1996 author of many comedy books, columnist and ABC news reporter)

    • If you begin to look like your passport photo, it's time to go home. - Erma Bombeck (1927-1996 author of many comedy books, columnist and ABC news reporter)

    • In general my children refuse to eat anything that hasn't danced on television. - Erma Bombeck (1927-1996 author of many comedy books, columnist and ABC news reporter)

    • It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows. - Erma Bombeck (1927-1996 author of many comedy books, columnist and ABC news reporter)

    • It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding. - Erma Bombeck (1927-1996 author of many comedy books, columnist and ABC news reporter)

    • When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, "I used everything you gave me." --- Erma Bombeck (1927-1996 author of many comedy books, columnist and ABC news reporter)

      Carol Burnett

    • I have always grown from my problems and challenges, from the things that didn't work out. That's when I've really learned. - Carol Burnett (b.1933 American television comedian, stage and movie actress, singer, dancer, author)

    • Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me. - Carol Burnett (b.1933 American television comedian, stage and movie actress, singer, dancer, author)

    • When you have a dream you've got to grab it and never let go. - Carol Burnett (b.1933 American television comedian, stage and movie actress, singer, dancer, author)

    • Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own. - Carol Burnett (b.1933 American television comedian, stage and movie actress, singer, dancer, author)

      Barbara Bush

    • At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict, or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child or a parent. - Barbara Bush (b.1925, American First Lady, Wife of the 42nd President George H.W. Bush and Mother of the 44th President George W. Bush)

    • Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family. - Barbara Bush (b.1925, American First Lady, wife of George H. Bush)

    • I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up. - Barbara Bush (b.1925, American First Lady to George H.W. Bush 41st and mother of 43rd President George W. Bush)

    • May your future be worthy of your dreams. - Barbara Bush (b.1925, American First Lady, wife of George H. Bush)

    • Somewhere out in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow in my footsteps, and preside over the White House as the President's spouse. I wish him well! - Barbara Bush (b.1925, American First Lady --remarks at Wellesley College Commencement, June 1, 1990)

    • To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there. - Barbara Bush (b.1925, American First Lady, wife of George H. Bush)

    • You don't just luck into things. You build them step-by-step, whether it's friendships or opportunities. - Barbara Bush (First Lady, Wife of the 42st President George H. Bush)

      Mariah Carey

    • You really have to look inside and find your inner strength, and say, "I'm proud of what I am and who I am, and I'm just going to be myself. “ - Mariah Carey (b1969 American Singer)

      Rosalynn Carter

    • Do what you can to show you care about other people, and you will make our world a better place. -- Rosalynn Carter (b.1927 American First Lady, Wife of President Jimmy Carter, co-founder of the Carter Foundation and spokes person for Habitat for Humanity)

    • A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go, but ought to be. - Rosalynn Carter (b.1927 American First Lady, Wife of President Jimmy Carter, co-founder of the Carter Foundation and spokes person for Habitat for Humanity)

    • If you doubt you can accomplish something, then you can't accomplish it. You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through. - Rosalynn Carter (b.1927 American First Lady, Wife of President Jimmy Carter, co-founder of the Carter Foundation and spokes person for Habitat for Humanity)

    • If we have not achieved our early dreams, we must either find new ones or see what we can salvage from the old. If we have accomplished what we set out to do in our youth, we need not weep like Alexander the Great that we have no more worlds to conquer. Get up and start helping others. Make a difference in someone else's life. - Rosalynn Carter (b.1927 American First Lady, Wife of President Jimmy Carter, co-founder of the Carter Foundation and spokes person for Habitat for Humanity)

    • Informed journalists can have a significant impact on public understanding of mental health issues, as they shape debate and trends with the words and pictures they convey, ... They influence their peers and stimulate discussion among the general public, and an informed public can reduce stigma and discrimination. - Rosalynn Carter (b.1927 American First Lady, Wife of President Jimmy Carter, co-founder of the Carter Foundation and spokes person for Habitat for Humanity)

    • There is nothing more important than a good, safe, secure home. - Rosalynn Carter (b.1927 American First Lady, Wife of President Jimmy Carter, co-founder of the Carter Foundation and spokes person for Habitat for Humanity)


      Marie Curie

    • Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas. - Marie Curie (1867-1934 Nobel Prize in Physics (1903) Davy Medal (1903) Matteucci Medal (1904) Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1911) known for her radioactivity)

    • Humanity needs practical men, who get the most out of their work, and, without forgetting the general good, safeguard their own interests. But humanity also needs dreamers, for whom the disinterested development of an enterprise is so captivating that it becomes impossible for them to devote their care to their own material profit. Without doubt, these dreamers do not deserve wealth, because they do not desire it. Even so, a well-organized society should assure to such workers the efficient means of accomplishing their task, in a life freed from material care and freely consecrated to research.
      - Marie Curie (1867-1934 Nobel Prize in Physics (1903) Davy Medal (1903) Matteucci Medal (1904) Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1911) known for her radioactivity)

    • I am among those who think that science has great beauty. A scientist in his laboratory is not only a technician: he is also a child placed before natural phenomena which impress him like a fairy tale.

      - Marie Curie (1867-1934 Nobel Prize in Physics (1903) Davy Medal (1903) Matteucci Medal (1904) Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1911) known for her radioactivity)

    • I have frequently been questioned, especially by women, of how I could reconcile family life with a scientific career. Well, it has not been easy. - Marie Curie (1867-1934 Nobel Prize in Physics (1903) Davy Medal (1903) Matteucci Medal (1904) Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1911) known for her radioactivity)

    • I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done. - Marie Curie (1867-1934 Nobel Prize in Physics (1903) Davy Medal (1903) Matteucci Medal (1904) Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1911) known for her radioactivity)

    • I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy. - Marie Curie (1867-1934 Nobel Prize in Physics (1903) Davy Medal (1903) Matteucci Medal (1904) Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1911) known for her radioactivity)

    • Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less. - Marie Curie (1867-1934 Nobel Prize in Physics (1903) Davy Medal (1903) Matteucci Medal (1904) Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1911) known for her radioactivity)

    • You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end each of us must work for his own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful. - Marie Curie (1867-1934 Nobel Prize in Physics (1903) Davy Medal (1903) Matteucci Medal (1904) Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1911) known for her radioactivity)



      Agnes DeMille
      Dance in the body you have. - Agnes DeMille (1905-1993 dancer, choreographer)

      Emily Dickinson

    • If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain. - Emily Dickinson (1830-1886, American Poet)


      Patty Duke

    • I know that without treatment I would not have never been able to harness my creativity in such a successful way. - Patty Duke (b.1946 American actress on TV and movies "The Miracle Worker". activist for mental wellness)

    • I never did quite fit the glamor mode. It is life with my husband and family that is my high now.
      - Patty Duke (b.1946 American actress on TV and movies "The Miracle Worker". activist for mental wellness)

    • If I have any message for others, it is to go for help early and not to be a resistant patient.
      - Patty Duke (b.1946 American actress on TV and movies "The Miracle Worker". activist for mental wellness)

    • It is up to people like me who have access to the media and the support of most of the community I live in to spread the word. It thrills me to talk to someone and see in their eyes that a connection has been made, to see that communion of spirit. - Patty Duke (b.1946 American actress on TV and movies "The Miracle Worker". activist for mental wellness)

    • No matter what your laundry list of requirements in choosing a mate, there has to be an element of good luck and good fortune and good timing. - Patty Duke (b.1946 American actress on TV and movies "The Miracle Worker". activist for mental wellness)

    • One of my jobs that I think is almost God-given is my ability to communicate, and I must use that to reach out to people who are in a position that they think is hopeless . - Patty Duke (b.1946 American actress on TV and movies "The Miracle Worker". activist for mental wellness)

      Rosalynn Carter

    • Do what you can to show you care about other people, and you will make our world a better place. - Rosalynn Carter (b.1927, American First Lady, Wife of President Jimmy Carter)

    • If you doubt you can accomplish something, then you can't accomplish it. You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through. - Rosalynn Carter (b.1927, American First Lady, Wife of President Jimmy Carter)

    • A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go, but ought to be. - Rosalynn Carter (b.1927, American First Lady, Wife of President Jimmy Carter)

      Myrlie Evers

    • When you ha, the only one that suffers is you because most of the people you hate don't know it and the rest don't care. - Myrlie Evers the widow of Medgar Evers(1925-1963 Civil Rights activist)

      Jane Fonda

    • You can do one of two things; just shut up, which is something I don't find easy, or learn an awful lot very fast, which is what I tried to do. - Jane Fonda (actress, activist)

      Anne Frank

    • How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. - Anne Frank(1929-1945 As she and 7 others hid from the Nazis, Anne wrote a diary on her experience.)

    • I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. - Anne Frank (1929-1945 As she and 7 others hid from the Nazis, Anne wrote a diary on her experience.

    • Oh, if only ... the whole world would realize that people were really kindly disposed toward one another, that they are all equal and everything else is just transitory! How lovely to think that no one need wait a moment, we can start now, start slowly changing the world...Give of yourself ... even if it is only kindness! ...give again and again, don't lose courage... - Anne Frank (1929-1945 As she and 7 others hid from the Nazis, Anne wrote a diary on her experience.)

    • Parents can only give good advice or put them [children] on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands. - Anne Frank [1929-1945 As she and 7 others hid from the Nazis, Anne wrote a diary on her experience.-- Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl (1952) entry for July 15, 1944]

    • Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy. - Anne Frank (1929-1945 As she and 7 others hid from the Nazis, Anne wrote a diary on her experience.)

      Bonnie Friedman

    • An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth. - Bonnie Friedman (Authur, Columnist New York Times)

      Ellen Goodman

    • I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people convinced that they are about to change the world, I am more awed by those who struggle to make one small difference after another. Dr. King took little steps, won little wars and asked all of us to do the same. - Ellen Goodman (American Journalist et al)

      Whoopi Goldberg

    • I fear waking up one morning and finding out it was all for nothing. We're here for a reason. I believe a bit of the reason is to throw little torches out to lead people through the darkness. - Whoopi Goldberg (b.1955, stand up comedienne, TV and Movie star)

    • Well when I was nine years old Star Trek came on. I looked at it and I went screaming through the house, "Come here, mum, everybody, come quick, come quick, there's a black lady on television and she ain't no maid!" I knew right then and there I could be anything I wanted to be.... - Whoopi Goldberg (b.1955, stand up comedienne, TV and Movie star)

    • What I am is a humanist before anything - before I'm a Jew, before I'm black, before I'm a woman. But somehow you are supposed to be credits to our race. The mere fact that I am still around makes me a credit to my race, which is the human race. And my beliefs are for the human race -- they don't exclude anyone. - Whoopi Goldberg (b.1955, stand up comedienne, TV and Movie star)

      Martha Graham

    • You are unique, and if that is not fulfilled then something has been lost. - Martha Graham (1894-1991, American dancer, teacher, and choreographer)

      Colleen Hitchock

    • And if I go, while you're still here know that I still live on.
      And when you need me, just whisper my name in your heart. - Colleen Hitchock

      Katharine Hepburn

    • Genius is an infinite capacity for taking life by the scruff of the neck. - Katharine Hepburn (1907-2003, Award Winning American actress, writer)

    • If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased. - Katharine Hepburn (1907-2003, Award Winning American actress, writer)

    • If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun. - Katharine Hepburn (1907-2003, Award Winning American actress, writer)

    • Only the really plain people know about love -- the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents. - Katharine Hepburn (1907-2003, Award Winning American actress, writer)

    • Vitality! That's the pursuit of life, isn't it? - Katharine Hepburn (1907-2003, American actress, writer)

    • We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers - but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault, because if you wanted to change you're the one who has got to change. - Katharine Hepburn (1907-2003, Award Winning American actress, writer)

      Helen Hunt

    • People say you have to be what you want your children to be. . . It makes you work on yourself, because it's instant Karma! What ever you say to them can come right back at you! - Helen Hunt (Red Book Interview by Margot Daugherty)

    • Life has a way of growing you up! - Helen Hunt (b.1963 American Emmy, Golden Globe, and Academy Award-winning actress in As Good As It Gets, TV sitcom Mad About You

    • Ann Landers

    • Class is an aura of confidence that is being sure without being cocky. Class has nothing to do with money. Class never runs scared. It is self-discipline and self-knowledge. It's the sure-footedness that comes with having proved you can meet life. - Ann Landers (1918-2002 American Advice Columnist for 45 years)

    • Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful. Dogs are very tolerant. - Ann Landers (1918-2002 American Advice Columnist for 45 years)

    • Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and repeat to yourself, the most comforting words of all; this, too, shall pass. - Ann Landers (1918-2002 American Advice Columnist for 45 years)

    • If you have love in your life, it can make up for a great many things that are missing. If you don't have love in your life, no matter what else there is, it's not enough. - Ann Landers (1918-2002 American Advice Columnist for 45 years)

    • Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good. - Ann Landers (1918-2002 American Advice Columnist for 45 years)

    • Maturity: Be able to stick with a job until it is finished. Be able to bear an injustice without having to get even. Be able to carry money without spending it. Do your duty without being supervised. - Ann Landers (1918-2002 American Advice Columnist for 45 years)

    • Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.- Ann Landers (1918-2002 American Advice Columnist for 45 years)

    • One out of four people in this country is mentally unbalanced. Think of your three closes friends; if they seem OK, then you're the one. - Ann Landers (1918-2002 American Advice Columnist for 45 years)

    • Too many people today know the price of everything and the value of nothing. - Ann Landers (1918-2002 American Advice Columnist for 45 years)

    • You need that guy like a giraffe needs strep throat. - Ann Landers (1918-2002 American Advice Columnist for 45 years)

      Anne Morrow Lindbergh

    • By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacation-less class. - Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1906-2001 writer, scientist , first woman glider pilot, metal winning private pilot wife of Charles Lindbergh

    • Don't wish me happiness-I don't expect to be happy it's gotten beyond that, somehow. Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor-I will need them all. - Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1906-2001 writer, scientist , first woman glider pilot, metal winning private pilot wife of Charles Lindbergh

    • For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair. - Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1906-2001 writer, scientist , first woman glider pilot, metal winning private pilot wife of Charles Lindbergh

    • Grief can't be shared. Everyone carries it alone. His own burden in his own way. - Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1906-2001 writer, scientist , first woman glider pilot, metal winning private pilot wife of Charles Lindbergh

    • I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable. - Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1906-2001 writer, scientist , first woman glider pilot, metal winning private pilot wife of Charles Lindbergh

    • If you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more richly those moments. - Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1906-2001 writer, scientist , first woman glider pilot, metal winning private pilot wife of Charles Lindbergh

    • To give without any reward, or any notice, has a special quality of its own. - Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1906-2001 writer, scientist , first woman glider pilot, metal winning private pilot wife of Charles Lindbergh

      Angelina Jolie

    • Who are we if we are not useful to others. -Angelina Jolie (b.1975 American actress, Goodwill Ambassador for UN refugee affairs)

    • If you don't get out of the box you were raised in you won't understand how much bigger the world is. - Angelina Jolie (b.1975 American actress, Goodwill Ambassador for UN refugee affairs)

    • Erica Jong

    • Courage is the only magic worth having. - Erica Jong (poet, novelist, lecturer)

      Barbara Jordan

    • American's mission was and still is to take diversity and mold it into a cohesive and coherent whole that would espouse virtues and values essential to the maintenance of civil order. There is nothing easy about that mission. But it is not mission impossible. Outstanding HISD Alumna Award Recipient, October, 1993 -- Annual Meeting of the Council of the Great City Schools - Barbara Jordan (1936-1996 professor at University of Texas, House Representatives D-Texas)

    • How do we create a harmonious society out of so many kinds of people? The key is tolerance -- the one value that is indispensable in creating community. One thing is clear to me: We, as human beings, must be willing to accept people who are different from ourselves. -Barbara Jordan (1936-1996 professor at University of Texas, House Rep. For Texas) Article entitle "All together Now" from Sesame Street Parents, . July/August, 1994

    • I have faith in young people because I know the strongest emotions which prevail are those of love and caring and belief and tolerance. Article in "On Campus", February 14, 1994 - Barbara Jordan (1936-1996 professor at University of Texas, House Representatives. Dem.-Texas)

    • What the people want is very simple. They want an America as good as its promise. -Barbara Jordan (1936-1996 professor at University of Texas, House Representative Democrat-Texas)

      Helen Keller

    • Believe. No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit. --Helen Keller (1880-1968, American blind/deaf author, lecturer, speaker, teacher )

    • Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain. -- Helen Keller (1880-1968, American blind/deaf author, lecturer, speaker, teacher )

    • The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart. - Helen Keller

    • Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved. -- Helen Keller (1880-1968 Deaf and Blind, author, speaker, teacher)

    • I do not want the peace which passeth understanding. I want the understanding which bringeth peace. -- Helen Keller (1880-1968 Deaf and Blind, author, speaker, teacher)

    • I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble. - Helen Keller (1880-1968, American Blind/Deaf Author, Lecturer, teacher)

    • It gives me a deep, comforting sense that things seen are temporal and things unseen are eternal. - Helen Keller (1880-1968, American Blind/Deaf Author, Lecturer, teacher)

    • It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal. - Helen Keller (1880-1968, American Blind/Deaf Author, Lecturer, Teacher)

    • It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui. --Helen Keller (1880-1968, American Blind/Deaf Author, Lecturer, teacher)

    • Keep your face in the sunshine and you will not see the shadows. - Helen Keller (1880-1968 Deaf and Blind, author, speaker, teacher)

    • Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. - Helen Keller (1880-1968 Deaf and Blind, author, speaker, teacher)

    • One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar. - Helen Keller (1880-1968 Deaf and Blind, author, speaker, teacher)

    • Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence. - Helen Keller (1880-1968 Deaf and Blind, author, speaker, teacher)

    • There is not better way to thank God for you sight than by giving a helping hand to someone in the dark. - Helen Keller (1880-1968 Deaf and Blind, author, speaker, teacher)

    • Science may have found a cure for most evils' but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all, the human beings. - Helen Keller (1880-1968 Deaf and Blind, author, speaker, teacher)

    • We can do anything we want if we stick to it long enough. - Helen Keller (1880-1968 Deaf and Blind, author, speaker, teacher)

    • What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us. - Helen Keller (1880-1968 Deaf and Blind, author, speaker, teacher)

    • Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties. - Helen Keller (1880-1968 American blind/deaf author, lecturer, teacher)

      Rose Kennedy

    • I looked on child rearing not only as a work of love and duty but as a profession that was fully as interesting and challenging as any honorable profession in the world and one that demanded the best that I could bring to it. - Rose Kennedy (1890-1995 mother of nine, one being the 35th President JFK and two U.S. Senators)

    • Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments. - Rose Kennedy (1890-1995 mother of nine, one being the 35th President JFK and two U.S. Senators)

    • I tell myself that God gave my children many gifts - spirit, beauty, intelligence, the capacity to make friends and to inspire respect... There was only one gift he held back - length of life. - Rose Kennedy (1890-1995 mother of nine, one being the 35th President JFK and two U.S. Senators)

    • I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved. --Rose Kennedy (1890-1995 mother of nine, one being the 35th President JFK and two U.S. Senators)

    • If you can keep your head about you when all about you are losing theirs, its just possible you haven't grasped the situation. - Rose Kennedy (1890-1995 mother of nine, one being the 35th President JFK and two U.S. Senators)

    • Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments. --Rose Kennedy (1890-1995 mother of nine, one being the 35th President JFK and two U.S. Senators)

    • Make sure you never, never argue at night. You just lose a good night's sleep, and you can't settle anything until morning anyway. --Rose Kennedy (1890-1995 mother of nine, one being the 35th President JFK and two U.S. Senators)

      Coretta Scott King

    • Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated. -Coretta Scott King (civil rights activist and wife of Martin Luther King, Jr.)

    • I believe all Americans who believe in freedom, tolerance and human rights have a responsibility to oppose bigotry and prejudice based on sexual orientation. -Coretta Scott King (civil rights activist and wife of Martin Luther King, Jr.)

    • I'm fulfilled in what I do. . . I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes -- the finer things of life -- would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense. -Coretta Scott King (civil rights activist and wife of Martin Luther King, Jr.)

    • If American women would increase their voting turnout by ten percent, I think we would see an end to all of the budget cuts in programs benefiting women and children. -Coretta Scott King (civil rights activist and wife of Martin Luther King, Jr.)

    • The more visible signs of protest are gone, but I think there is a realization that the tactics of the late sixties are not sufficient to meet the challenges of the seventies. -Coretta Scott King (civil rights activist and wife of Martin Luther King, Jr.)

    • Segregation was wrong when it was forced by white people, and I believe it is still wrong when it is requested by black people. - Coretta Scott King (civil rights activist and wife of Martin Luther King, Jr.)

      Ann Landers

    • Class is an aura of confidence that is being sure without being cocky. Class has nothing to do with money. Class never runs scared. It is self-discipline and self-knowledge. It's the sure-footedness that comes with having proved you can meet life. - Ann Landers (1918-2002 American advice columnist)

      Martina McBride

    • In my daughter's eyes ... I am a hero
      I am strong and wise and I know no fear
      But the truth is plain to see ... She was sent to rescue me
      I see who I wanna be ... In my daughter's eyes
      -       Martina McBride (      lyrics)

      Margaret Mead

    • Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. - Margaret Mead (1901-1978 anthropologist)

    • If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse gift will find a fitting place.
      - Margaret Mead (1901-1978, American anthropologist)

    • We won't have a society if we destroy the environment. - Margaret Mead (1901-1978, American anthropologist)

      Golda Meir

    • Those who do not know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either. - Golda Meir (1898-1978, Prime Minister of Israel from 1969-74)

      Sandra Day O'Connor

    • The courts of this country should not be the places where resolution of disputes begins. They should be the places where the disputes end after alternative methods of resolving disputes have been considered and tried. - Sandra Day O'Connor (b.1930 lawyer, 1st Woman Supreme Court Justice)

    • Do the best you can in every task, no matter how unimportant it may seem at the time. No one learns more about a problem than the person at the bottom. -- Sandra Day O'Connor (b.1930 lawyer, Supreme Court Justice)

    • Despite the encouraging and wonderful gains and the changes for women which have occurred in my lifetime, there is still room to advance and to promote correction of the remaining deficiencies and imbalances. -- Sandra Day O'Connor (b.1930 lawyer, Supreme Court Justice)

    • Each of us brings to our job, whatever it is, our lifetime of experience and our values. -- Sandra Day O'Connor (b.1930 lawyer, Supreme Court Justice)

    • The family unit plays a critical role in our society and in the training of the generation to come. -Sandra Day O'Connor (b.1930 lawyer, 1st Woman Supreme Court Justice)

    • Having family responsibilities and concerns just has to make you a more understanding person. -- Sandra Day O'Connor (b.1930 lawyer, 1st Woman Supreme Court Justice)

    • It matters enormously to a successful democratic society like ours that we have three branches of government, each with some independence and some control over the other two. That's set out in the Constitution. -- Sandra Day O'Connor (b.1930 lawyer, 1st Woman Supreme Court Justice)

    • The more education a woman has, the wider the gap between men's and women's earnings for the same work. - Sandra Day O'Connor (b.1930 lawyer, 1st Woman Supreme Court Justice)

    • My hope is that 10 years from now, after I've been across the street at work for a while, they'll all be glad they gave me that wonderful vote. -- Sandra Day O'Connor (b.1930 lawyer, 1st Woman Supreme Court Justice)

    • My sense is that jurists from other nations around the world understand that our court occupies a very special place in the American system, and that the court is rather well regarded in comparison, perhaps, to their own. -- Sandra Day O'Connor (b.1930 lawyer, Supreme Court Justice)

    • The power I exert on the court depends on the power of my arguments, not on my gender. - Sandra Day O'Connor (b.1930 lawyer, 1st Woman Supreme Court Justice)

    • Society as a whole benefits immeasurably from a climate in which all persons, regardless of race or gender, may have the opportunity to earn respect, responsibility, advancement and remuneration based on ability. -- Sandra Day O'Connor (b.1930 lawyer, 1st Woman Supreme Court Justice)

    • We don't accomplish anything in this world alone... and whatever happens is the result of the whole tapestry of one's life and all the weavings of individual threads form one to another that creates something. -- Sandra Day O'Connor (b.1930 lawyer, 1st Woman Supreme Court Justice)

    • We pay a price when we deprive children of the exposure to the values, principles, and education they need to make them good citizens. --Sandra Day O'Connor (b.1930 lawyer, 1st Woman Supreme Court Justice)

    • When I was nominated in 1981, and took the position, it was incredible to see doors opening for women around the world on courts and for other positions, too. And law schools became more open. More young women started attending law school. It's now half and half, at least, if not more. -- Sandra Day O'Connor (b.1930 lawyer, 1st Woman Supreme Court Justice)

    • Young women today often have very little appreciation for the real battles that took place to get women where they are today in this country. I don't know how much history young women today know about those battles. -- Sandra Day O'Connor (b.1930 lawyer, 1st Woman Supreme Court Justice)

      Dolly Parton

    • A coat of many colors - Dolly Parton (b.1946 Grammy-winning and Academy Award-nominated, American country singer, songwriter, composer, musician, author, actress, business woman, and philanthropist.)

    • I still close my eyes and go home - I can always draw from that. - Dolly Parton (b.1946 Grammy-winning and Academy Award-nominated, American country singer, songwriter, composer, musician, author, actress, business woman, and philanthropist.)

    • I wanted to be the first woman to burn her bra, but it would have taken the fire department four days to put it out. - Dolly Parton (b.1946 Grammy-winning and Academy Award-nominated, American country singer, songwriter, composer, musician, author, actress, business woman, and philanthropist.)

    • I'm not going to limit myself just because people won't accept the fact that I can do something else. - Dolly Parton (b.1946 Grammy-winning and Academy Award-nominated, American country singer, songwriter, composer, musician, author, actress, busine

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