life poems for teenagers

Beginnings are apt to be shadowy. ~Rachel Carson



Tea is instant wisdom - just add water! ~Astrid Alauda



The best practical advice I can give to the present generation is to practice the virtue which the Christians call love. ~Bertrand Russell



During my second year of nursing school our professor gave us a quiz. I breezed through the questions until I read the last one: "What is the first name of the woman who cleans the school?" Surely this was a joke. I had seen the cleaning woman several times, but how would I know her name? I handed in my paper, leaving the last question blank. Before the class ended, one student asked if the last question would count toward our grade. "Absolutely," the professor said. "In your careers, you will meet many people. All are significant. They deserve your attention and care, even if all you do is smile and say hello." I've never forgotten that lesson. I also learned her name was Dorothy. ~Joann C. Jones During my second year of nursing school our professor gave us a quiz. I breezed through the questions until I read the last one: "What is the first name of the woman who cleans the school?" Surely this was a joke. I had seen the cleaning woman several times, but how would I know her name? I handed in my paper, leaving the last question blank. Before the class ended, one student asked if the last question would count toward our grade. "Absolutely," the professor said. "In your careers, you will meet many people. All are significant. They deserve your attention and care, even if all you do is smile and say hello." I've never forgotten that lesson. I also learned her name was Dorothy. ~Joann C. Jones



If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason. ~Samuel Butler



A woman's best love letters are always written to the man she is betraying. ~Lawrence Durrell



When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you. ~African Proverb



A private man, however successful in his own dealing, if his country perish is involved in her destruction; but if he be an unprosperous citizen of a prosperous city, he is much more likely to recover. Seeing, then, that States can bear the misfortunes of individuals, but individuals cannot bear the misfortunes of States, let us all stand by our country. ~Thucydides



A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on. ~Carl Sandburg



Property is organized robbery. ~George Bernard Shaw



Concerning football playing, I protest to you it may rather be called a friendly kind of fighting, rather than recreation. ~Author Unknown



You will turn over many a futile new leaf till you learn we must all write on scratched-out pages. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



A faithful man shall abound with blessings; but he that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent. ~Proverbs 28:20



To take something from a person and keep it for oneself: that is robbery. To take something from one person and then turn it over to another in exchange for as much money as you can get: that is business. Robbery is so much more stupid, since it is satisfied with a single, frequently dangerous profit; whereas in business it can be doubled without danger. ~"The Mission," Chapter 2



War hath no fury like a noncombatant. ~Charles Edward Montague, Disenchantment



The eloquent man is he who is no beautiful speaker, but who is inwardly and desperately drunk with a certain belief. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journals, 1845



When you reread a classic you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than was there before. ~Clifton Fadiman



Clearly, then, the city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo. ~Desmond Morris, The Human Zoo



My mom is literally a part of me. You can't say that about many people except relatives, and organ donors. ~Carrie Latet



Only Americans can hurt America. ~Dwight D. Eisenhower