Mark Twain Birthday Quotes & Sayings

The money-changers have fled from their high seats in the temple of our civilization. We may now restore that temple to the ancient truths. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

We can't reach old age by another man's road. — Mark Twain

No ray of sunlight is ever lost, but the green which it awakes into existence needs time to sprout, and it is not always granted to the sower to see the harvest. All work that is worth anything is done in faith. — Albert Schweitzer

My mom and I used to listen to records, read, and take train rides across the country in the summer. It was a very chill life. She didn't expose me to anything that was ahead of my development, but she expected me to adjust to her world - she did not expect to adjust to mine. — Martha Plimpton

Mangroves, salt marshes and sea grass lock away carbon at up to five times the rate of tropical forests. — Frances Beinecke

You know when people smile too much? It's painful. I find it really painful. Happy is not very reliable. I'm trying to live like, um, with a fierce calm. — Tori Amos

I live on a boat, which is in the midst of renovation. I figure the good Lord will put me in the right place and hopefully I'll have the right clothes on. I think what we're going to do is bring the boat through the Panama Canal. My husband has always wanted to do that. So I think we'll do that and have the boat in Florida for the winter. — Florence Henderson

My faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened. — Mark Twain

Most of the tools from medieval times were extensions of the physical self. Tools are now extensions of the mental self. — Lotoya Peterson

In England, coffeehouses were dubbed penny-universities, because for the admission price of one cent, a person could sit and be edified all day long by scholars, merchants, travelers, community leaders, gossips, and poets. — Leah Hager Cohen