Uncle Buck Birthday Quotes & Sayings

To see Earth fully we already need to love it — John Burroughs

Sink through the floor. Sonia, too, strove to control — Margaret Way

Stop drifting. You're not going to re-read your Brief Comments, your Deeds of the Ancient Greeks and Romans, the commonplace books you saved for your old age. Sprint for the finish. Write off your hopes, and if your well-being matters to you, be your own savior while you can. — Marcus Aurelius

Love is the binding force on every level of existence. — Peter Kreeft

The wise man is he who is not surprised when he finds stale tea in a beautiful teapot! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

You can cry about death and very properly so, your own as well as anybody else's. But it's inevitable, so you'd better grapple with it and cope and be aware that not only is it inevitable, but it has always been inevitable, if you see what I mean. — David Attenborough

A true leader must have enough backbone to stand alone, even when the crowd wants to take the easy road home. A true leader cannot be dependent on companionship for his or her security, but must learn to trust in God alone. Singleness can give us the kind of backbone - courage, confidence, and leadership skills that an effective Christian must learn. — Leslie Ludy

Please. I don't make sense with you and you don't make sense without me and you know it. we only ever worked together. — R.K. Lilley

My father's politics were old-fashioned in the sense that he used to say, all the time, "You've got to fight the system!" But my spiritual beliefs have led me to believe that the fight is the problem. — Marianne Williamson

If there was no Lego in Billund, there will almost be no Billund ... Lego is Billund, and Billund is Lego. — Jorgen Vig Knudstorp

And if any of you has a problem with any of it, then it's *your* problem. Being gay is hard enough without having to worry about your family being weird about it. — A.S. King

It means an educational system which does not simply equip the students to adjust to society, but which enables the student to challenge and to modify, and at times reject, if necessary, the received wisdom of his elders. — Lyndon B. Johnson

Our minds have the incredible capacity to both alter the strength of connections among neurons, essentially rewiring them, and create entirely new pathways. (It makes a computer, which cannot create new hardware when its system crashes, seem fixed and helpless). — Susannah Cahalan