Debbs Lemos Quotes & Sayings

When I was about thirteen, the library was going to get 'Calculus for the Practical Man.' By this time I knew, from reading the encyclopedia, that calculus was an important and interesting subject, and I ought to learn it. — Richard P. Feynman

Mothers do, every day. It's funny, Bo, how a woman can bring two children into the world, raise them up the same way - the same rules and values, indulgences and disciplines. And still two separate people come out of it all. — Nora Roberts

I have been rich and I have been poor. I know which one I prefer. — Michael Caine

For another - you can move faster than she can. You are as recognizable as she is. And you are willing to take cover. We are not so certain about the dowager. — C.J. Cherryh

I think the best teachers had a real interest in the subject they were teaching and a love for children. Some of the teachers were just doing their job, but others had that little extra. They really cared about children and they wore pretty dresses. — Beverly Cleary

When a man undertakes to create something, he establishes a new heaven, as it were, and from it the work that he desires to create flows into him ... For such is the immensity of man that he is greater than heaven and earth. — Paracelsus

When I was 11 years old, my parents wanted me to do something besides get in trouble. So they enrolled me in sailing classes at the Sea Shell Association in Santa Barbara, Calif. From the moment I climbed into that 8-foot dinghy in 1952, I knew instinctively what to do and sensed I had done it before. — David Crosby

Mormonism is the pure doctrine of Jesus Christ; of which I myself am not ashamed. — Joseph Smith Jr.

Know thyself, and thou shalt know God. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib

If God wants to take my left arm, that's OK, as long as I can walk and play with my kids. I'm a lot improved. I was worse than this after the accident. — Manute Bol

Those authors who appear sometimes to forget they are writers, and remember they are men, will be our favorites. — Benjamin Disraeli

Gone! And you and I quite crestfallen. It's always like that, you can't keep him; it's not as if he were a tame lion. — C.S. Lewis

Horizontal and vertical sprawl ... are the dinosaurs of an ending fossil-fuel age of synthetic culture. — Leon Krier

Of course all life is a process of breaking down, but the blows that do the dramatic side of the work-the big sudden blows that come, or seem to come, from outside-the ones you remember and blame things on and, in moments of weakness, tell your friends about, don't show their effect all at once. There is another sort of blow that comes from within-that you don't feel until it's too late to do anything about it, until you realize with finality that in some regard you will never be as good a man again. The first sort of breakage seems to happen quick-the second kind happens almost without your knowing it but is realized suddenly indeed. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Thoughts are things; they have tremendous power. Thoughts of doubt and fear are pathways to failure. — Bryan Adams