Quaintly Countrified Quotes & Sayings

I think that every decision I made came from what's best for the kids. If both parents have the children's best interests in mind, it's going to go OK. The second that the parents don't do that, it gets ugly. — Josie Bissett

Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Let the girl be thoroughly developed in body and soul, not modeled, like a piece of clay, after some artificial specimen of humanity, with a body like some plate in Godey's book of fashion, and a mind after the type of Father Gregory's pattern daughters, loaded down with the traditions, proprieties, and sentimentalities of generations of silly mothers and grandmothers, but left free to be, to grow, to feel, to think, to act. Development is one thing, that system of cramping, restraining, torturing, perverting, and mystifying, called education, is quite another. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton

It's not what happens to you in life that matters; what matters is how you deal with it! — Terry Riley

America was still a land of wonder. The ancient spell still hung unbroken over the wild, vast world of mystery beyond the sea,-a land of romance, adventure, and gold. — Francis Parkman

[Suggesting an epitaph for herself:] This is on me. — Dorothy Parker

One of the huge mistakes people make is that they try to force an interest on themselves. You don't choose your passions; your passions choose you. — Jeff Bezos

Do not turn into just cookie-cutter producer, cookie-cutter this, but a producer that people say wow, when they do something it's great or just unique or whatever. — Ice Cube

I was born in Burnsville, Minnesota, and raised in Eagan, which is right by Burnsville. I've been in that area my whole life. — Laura Osnes

You can never be sure whether you are discovering the truth or inventing it. — Frederick Buechner

I always want to learn but I am sure on my dying day I will feel like I left something in the bucket. — Tim McGraw

Its not what happens that counts ...
It's how you react. — Bruce Lee

Athletes are sort of part of the community at large. They have to be dedicated to what they do, and go through lots of peaks and valleys. And there's a lot of training that goes into their careers. It's a struggle. Very dramatic. — Dennis Quaid