Famous Quotes

Quotes, by famous and not so famous people. Many are inspirational, some are sad, but all have touched me in one way or another.

02 March 2009


A person's a person, no matter how small

~Dr Seuss


28 February 2009

A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.
~ Mahatma Gandhi

27 February 2009

All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth.
~ Mahatma Gandhi

25 February 2009

We, the unwilling, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much, for so long, with so little, we are now qualified to do anything with nothing.
~ Mother Theresa

24 February 2009

There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things that we could use.
~ Mother Theresa

23 February 2009

“The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated”.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

22 February 2009

The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.
~ Mother Theresa

21 February 2009

Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and importance, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.
~ Margaret Thatcher
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
~ Mother Theresa

30 January 2009

"Everybody today seems to be in such a terrible rush, anxious for greater developments and greater riches and so on, so that children have very little time for their parents. Parents have very little time for each other, and in the home begins the disruption of peace of the world."
~Mother Teresa

26 January 2009

“The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated”.
~ Mahatma Gandhi