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21 " Sticks and stones may break our bones, but words will break our hearts "
― Robert Fulghum , All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten
22 " What I notice is that every adult or child I give a new set of Crayolas to goes a little funny. The kids smile, get a glazed look on their faces, pour the crayons out, and just look at them for a while....The adults always get the most wonderful kind of sheepish smile on their faces--a mixture of delight and nostalgia and silliness. And they immediately start telling you about all their experiences with Crayolas. "
23 " A giraffe has a black tongue twenty-seven inches long and no vocal cords. A giraffe has nothing to say. He just goes on giraffing. "
24 " It wasn’t in books. It wasn’t in a church. What I needed to know was out there in the world. "
25 " It’s the spirit here that counts. The time may be long, the vehicle may be strange or unexpected. But if the dream is held close to the heart, and imagination is applied to what there is close at hand, everything is still possible. "
26 " Speed and efficiency do not always increase the quality of life. "
27 " We can do no great things; only small things with great love.(mother Teresa) "
28 " Anything not worth doing is worth not doing well. "
29 " The leaves let go, the seeds let go, and I must let go sometimes, too, and cast my lot with another of nature’s imperfect but tenacious survivors. "
30 " But love may have to be left off the exam. Most of us will never learn. "
31 " Nobody goes "AAAAAAAGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!" when they sing it. Maybe because it puts the life adventure in such clear and simple terms. The small creature is alive and looks for adventure. Here's the drainpipe--a long tunnel going up toward some light. The spider doesn't even think about it--just goes. Disaster befalls it--rain, flood, powerful foces. And the spider is knocked down and out beyond where it started. Does the spider say, "To hell with that"? No. Sun comes out--clears things up--dries off the spider. And the small creature goes over to the drainpipe and looks up and thinks it really wants to know what is up there. "
32 " Remember, most of us got something for nothing the first time just by showing up here at birth. Now we have to qualify. "
33 " If the dream is held close to the heart, and imagination is applied to what there is close at hand. Everything is still possible. "
34 " I get tired of hearing it's a crummy world and that people are no damned good. What kind of talk is that? I know a place in Payette, Idaho, where a cook and a waitress and a manager put everything they've got into laying a chicken-fried steak on you. "
35 " So you drive as far as you can, even when you can clearly read the sign. You want to think you are exempt, that it doesn’t apply to you. But it does. Life is still a dead end. And we still have a hard time believing it "
36 " Imagination is more important than information. Einstein said that, and he should know. And they come. And they look. And we push. And they fly. We to stay and die on our beds. They to go and die howsoever, yet inspiring those who come after them to find their own edge. And fly. "
37 " We even make ourselves up, fusing what we are with what we wish into what we must become. I'm not sure why it must be so, but it is. "
38 " And good neighbors make a huge difference in the quality of life. I agree. "
39 " You will continue to read stories of crookedness and corruption - of policemen who lie and steal, doctors who reap where they do not sew, politicians on the take. Don't be misled. They are news because they are the exceptions. "
40 " Machines and relatives get most of the yelling. But never trees. As for people, well, the Solomon islanders may have a point. Yelling at living thing does tend to kill the spirit in them. Sticks and stones may break our bones, but words will break our hearts. "