poems for kids about school

The shy and the extroverted have this in common - that they both fancy they are the center of attention. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



A poet dares be just so clear and no clearer.... He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it. A poet utterly clear is a trifle glaring. ~E.B. White



Sickness comes on horseback but departs on foot. ~Dutch Proverb, sometimes attributed to William C. Hazlitt



You don't have to go looking for love when it's where you come from. ~Werner Erhard



Let's not become so worried about not offending anybody that we lose the ability to distinguish between respect and paranoia. ~Larry King, about political correctness, How to Talk to Anyone, Anytime, Anywhere: The Secrets of Good Communication



Hem your blessings with thankfulness so they don't unravel. ~Author Unknown



Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never find out. ~Frank A. Clark



A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle; and patriotism is loyalty to that principle. ~George William Curtis



There are really only two plays: Romeo and Juliet, and put the darn ball in the basket. ~Abe Lemons



I don't care how poor a man is; if he has family, he's rich. ~Colonel Potter, M*A*S*H



Men rarely (if ever) manage to dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child. ~Robert Heinlein, Notebooks of Lazarus Long



A young lady is a female child who has just done something dreadful. ~Judith Martin



"Take most people, they're crazy about cars. They worry if they get a little scratch on them, and they're always talking about how many miles they get to a gallon, and if they get a brand-new car already they start thinking about trading it in for one that's even newer. I don't even like old cars. I mean they don't even interest me. I'd rather have a goddam horse. A horse is at least human, for God's sake." ~J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Chapter 17, spoken by the character Holden Caulfield



Your life is something opaque, not transparent, as long as you look at it in an ordinary human way. But if you hold it up against the light of God's goodness, it shines and turns transparent, radiant and bright. And then you ask yourself in amazement: Is this really my own life I see before me? ~Albert Schweitzer Your life is something opaque, not transparent, as long as you look at it in an ordinary human way. But if you hold it up against the light of God's goodness, it shines and turns transparent, radiant and bright. And then you ask yourself in amazement: Is this really my own life I see before me? ~Albert Schweitzer



There is no finish line. ~Nike advertisement



Some pursue happiness, others create it. ~Author Unknown



Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it. ~Henry David Thoreau, "Chesuncook," The Maine Woods, 1848



The deed is everything, the glory naught. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe



Failure doesn't mean you are a failure... it just means you haven't succeeded yet. ~Robert Schuller



I have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them. ~Mark Twain