teamwork quotes inspirational

If I had known how wonderful it would be to have grandchildren, I'd have had them first. ~Lois Wyse



Man embraces in his makeup all the natural orders; he's a squid, a mollusk, a sucker and a buzzard; sometimes he's a cerebrate. ~Martin H. Fischer



There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope. ~Baruch Spinoza



There comes a time when a woman needs to stop thinking about her looks and focus her energies on raising her children. This time comes at the moment of conception. A child needs a role model, not a supermodel. ~Astrid Alauda, on the "hot mom" trend



TV. If kids are entertained by two letters, imagine the fun they'll have with twenty-six. Open your child's imagination. Open a book. ~Author Unknown



People who snore always fall asleep first. ~Author Unknown



Clever father, clever daughter; clever mother, clever son. ~Russian Proverb



It is better to rise from life as from a banquet - neither thirsty nor drunken. ~Aristotle



The tree is more than first a seed, then a stem, then a living trunk, and then dead timber. The tree is a slow, enduring force straining to win the sky. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery, The Wisdom of the Sands, translated from French by Stuart Gilbert



A woman ought to look up to her husband, if only a half-inch. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



...existence has become an unreasoning, wild dance around the golden calf, a mad worship of God Mammon. In that dance and in that worship man has sacrificed all his finer qualities of the heart and soul - kindness and justice, honor and manhood, compassion and sympathy with his fellowman. ~Alexander Berkman, What Is Communist Anarchism?



Let's not forget that the little emotions are the great captains of our lives and we obey them without realizing it. ~Vincent Van Gogh, 1889



Perishability in a photograph is important in a picture. If a photograph looks perishable we say, "Gee, I'm glad I have that moment." ~John Loengard, "Pictures Under Discussion"



You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm. ~Colette



If you don't want to do something, one excuse is as good as another. ~Yiddish Proverb



Oh the powers of nature. She knows what we need, and the doctors know nothing. ~Benvenuto Cellini



It is not without good reason said, that he who has not a good memory should never take upon him the trade of lying. ~Michel de Montaigne, translated



Be well, do good work, and keep in touch. ~Garrison Keillor



That best academy, a mother's knee. ~James Russell Lowell



Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. There are too many people who think that the only thing that's right is to get by, and the only thing that's wrong is to get caught. ~J.C. Watts