Precious Moments Birthday Quotes & Sayings

There are quite a lot of people asking for a painting so I'm not able to fulfil all their wishes. And this gives me a lot of freedom, because if I cannot please them at all I don't have to start to try. — Norbert Bisky

Children are sent to school to be civilized, to learn to be part of the social enterprise. — Robert Fulghum

Every chemical reaction has a transition state. — Derek Harold Richard Barton

The Black Panthers was what we would call today a criminal gang that was formed by Huey Newton. Now, interestingly enough, I knew Huey Newton before he formed the Black Panthers. He was a student of mine when I was a teacher, instructor at Oakland City College back in the very early 1960s. — Edwin Meese

You don't have to be married to have a good friend as your partner for life. — Greta Garbo

I'm married, which means that instead of occasionally wondering about men from afar, I actually live with one and can be constantly astounded by the strange male brain. — Cathy Guisewite

The introduction of religious passion into politics is the end of honest politics, and the introduction of politics into religion is the prostitution of true religion. — Lord Hailsham

You can't stop change. Don't let it stop you. — Ron Kaufman

Usually I spend my holidays with my family. — Mike Shinoda

The idea of what the public will think prevents the public from ever thinking at all, and acts as a spell on the exercise of private judgment, so that, in short, the public ear is at the mercy of the first impudent pretender who chooses to fill it with noisy assertions, or false surmises, or secret whispers. What is said by one is heard by all; the supposition that a thing is known to all the world makes all the world believe it, and the hollow repetition of a vague report drowns the 'still, small voice' of reason. — William Hazlitt

We sleep 1/3 of our lives away. — Albert Einstein

The main shift, you see, is from placing self at the center of our thoughts to putting others there. It is-what do you say?-a paradox that the more we can focus our thoughts on the well-being of others, the happier we become. The first one to benefit is oneself. I call this being wisely selfish. — David Michie