I received these quotes during my Junior year of High School during my English class, courtesy of Mr. Graf. Thank you for your words and wisdom!


"Do something nice for someone but don't let them know it."
                               -Graf

"To enjoy what you do and feel it matters-how could anything be more fun."
                  -Katherine Graham, Editor in Chief-Washington Post

"If you want to know what you value in life, look in you checkbook register."
                               -Jim Mooberry

"Readers are leaders, leaders are readers."
                               -Steve Jones

"Many receive advice; but only the wise profit by it."
                               -Anon

"A mind once stretched never returns to it's original dimensions."
                               -H. Ford

"A good book is the best of friends, today and forever."
                               -M.F.Tapper

"The easiest person to deceive is one's own self."
                               -Anon

"Your heart will always make itself known through your words."
                               -Anon

"Leadership: The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack."
                               -Anon

"Attitude: Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadows."
                               -Anon

"The things that we love tell us what we are."
                               -St. Thomas Aquinas

"Money spent on ourselves maybe a millstone about the neck,
  spent on other, it may give us wings like eagles."
                               -M.D.Babcock

"Giving thanks means little unless you are living thanks."
                               -Anon

"Absence is for friendship what wind is for fire -
  it extinguishes the small and reinforces the strong."
                               -from a French quatrain

"True religion is the life we live, not the creed we profess."
                               -J.F.Wright

"The ripest peach is highest on the tree."
                               -James Whitcomb Riley

"It is a peculiar quality of fools to perceive the faults of others,
  and forget his own."
                               -Cicero

"If it's in your heart, it'll show up in your feet and hands."
                               -J. Mooberry

"Every person receives two educations, one from others and
  one which he gives to himself."
                               -Gibbons

"I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound
  to live up to the light I have."
                               -A. Lincoln

"Happiness grows at our own fireside
  and is not picked in strangers' gardens."
                               -Jerold

"Coincidence is when God works a miracle And prefers to remain anonymous."
                               -Anon

"Who sez their ain't no money in writting'? Toni Morrison, today,
  won the Nobel Prize for literature (Stockholn, Sweden). The prize?
  $825,000. Dig it?"
                               -Mr. Graf

"The best creed we can have is charity towards the creeds of others."
                               -Josh Billings

"To keep young, every day read a poem, hear a choice piece of music,
  view a fine painting, and do a good deed."
                               -Goethe

"Those who always follow a crowd will never be followed by a crowd."
                               -Salada Teabag

"Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes
  hardest to bear are those which never come."
                               -James R. Lowell

"Does your life shed light or cast a shadow?"
                               -RBC

"The bee is small among flying creatures,
  but her product is the best of sweet things."
                               -Sirack

"Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did,
  but she did it backwards and in high heels."
                               -Anon

"If you want something said, ask a man;
  if you want something done, ask a woman."
                               -Anon

"The soul would have no rainbow had the eye no tears."
                               -John Vance Cheney

"Faith draws the poison from every grief,
  takes the sting from every loss,
  and quenches the fire of every pain,
  and only faith can do it."
                               -J.G. Holland

"Your heart will always make itself known through your words."
                               -Fortune Cookie

"The really happy person is the one who can enjoy the scenery
  even when he has to take a detour."
                               -Anon

"If life is just a highway the soul is just a car;
  and objects in the rearview mirror may appear closer then they are."
                               -Jim Steinman

"There are some silent people whose praises should be sung;
  They preach a mighty sermon by guarding well their tongue."
                               -Posegate

"Wise is the person who know what to say but when not to say it."
                               -Anon

"Hope is faith that won't give up even in the dark;
  Hope can blaze into a flame from just a tiny spark."
                               -Duffin

"One man cannot withstand the system in which so many try to defeat."
                               -Anon

"Great trials often precede great triumphs."
                               -Anon

"Gods best gifts are opportunities, not things."
                               -Anon

"Certain springs are tapped only when we are alone."
                               -Anne Morrow Lindberg

"God sometimes puts us on our backs to look upward."
                               -Anon

"The real teacher is one who kindles the fire in the child's mind
  as one candle lights another."
                               -Frank E. Crane

"It is love that asks, that seeks, that knocks, that finds, and is
  faithful to what it finds."
                               -St. Augustine

"A happy memory is a joy forever."
                               -Anon

"Love never asks how much must I do, but how much I can do."
                               -Anon

"I never knew an hour so drear, love could not fill it full of cheer."
                               -J.K. Bangs

"Think Big and you'll be big."
                               -John Candy in "Splash"

"The knowledge of God is very far from the love of God."
                               -Anon

"He who has no fire in his soul cannot warm others."
                               -Anon

"Be careless in dress if you must, but keep tidy in soul."
                               -Mark Twain

"Many would be scantly clad if clothed in their humility."
                               -Anon

"People who like others are people others like."
                               -Anon

"Right now you have exactly what you want."
                               -Anon

"Glory lies not in never failing, but in rising when you have fallen."
                               -Anon

"Day by day
Look up
Laugh
Love
Along the day."
                               -Anon

"Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness."
                               -Seneca

"The greatest masterpieces were once only pigments on a palette."
                               -Henry S. Haskins

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."
                               -Eleanor Roosevelt