There are surveys that say people will vote for almost anyone over an atheist. There is a 30 or 40 percent part of the population that will ...

Everyone knows what 911 means. Everyone should know what 811 means--that’s the poetry section of the library. Visit as often as you can. ~ J...

I try to write parts for women that are as complicated and interesting as women actually are. ~ Nora Ephron ~

I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free. ~ Charles Dickens ~

Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop. ~ Ansel Adams ~ Ansel Adams photo courtesy Library of Congress .

I had always thought that once you grew up you could do anything you wanted--stay up all night or eat ice-cream straight out of the containe...

C was Papa's gray Cat,   Who caught a squeaky Mouse; She pulled him by his twirly tail   All about the house. ~ Edward Lear ~

While the impact of this amendment would be far-reaching, it is not a panacea. It is, however, an important first step in the effort to prov...

Isn’t that the beauty of writing? Everyone else but us knows what we mean. ~ Pamela Ross ~

When it comes down to it, the majority of the characteristics I like about myself--my competitive spirit, perseverance, decision-making and ...

People take pictures of the Summer, just in case someone thought they had missed it, and to prove that it really existed. ~ Ray Davies ~ Pho...

Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die. ~ Paul Simon ~ Image courtesy Open Clip Ar...

Laughter is an instant vacation. ~ Milton Berle ~

I never thought I should come to like cats. But I have. Perhaps it is because, as my Aunt Amanda used to say, we change every seven years, s...

As long as justice and injustice have not terminated their ever renewing fight for ascendancy in the affairs of mankind, human beings must b...

How can a word taste, smell, feel? It just can. It just does. At least for me. And that’s where it all begins: in that sensory place where p...

Let it be borne on the flag under which we rally in every exigency, that we have one country, one constitution, one destiny. ~ Daniel Webste...

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need. ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero ~ Photo courtesy State Library of Victoria Collect...

There is a tendency at every important but difficult crossroad to pretend that it's not really there. ~ Bill McKibben from The End of Na...

Grant me some wild expressions, Heavens, or I shall burst. ~ George Farquhar ~

June is designated as National Adopt a Shelter Cat month. June is the height of "kitten season" and animal shelters everywhere are...

No, Mitt, corporations are not people. People have hearts, they have kids, they get jobs, they get sick, they love, they cry, they dance, t...

I'm terrified of switching the computer on because there are so many poems. ~ Roger McGough ~ Photo by Chris Boland .

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all. ~ Oscar Wilde ~

"Pinocchio, come up here to me," cried Harlequin, "and throw yourself into the arms of your wooden brothers!" At this af...

Child labor and poverty are inevitably bound together and if you continue to use the labor of children as the treatment for the social disea...

Venus favors the bold. ~ Ovid ~ Photo by Carol M. Highsmith courtesy Library of Congress .

~ J. G. Francis from A Book of Cheerful Cats and Other Animated Animals ~ [Note: click on the illustration to make it easier to read.]

Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. ~ Dwi...

There is the sense that we are all, as writers, part of something which is more powerful than any of us. ~ Helen Dunmore ~ KK note: as reade...

Berry comes from an Indo-European root meaning "to shine," perhaps for the bright colors of many small fruits. ~ Harold McGee fro...

When we first met, we thought that there would be vast differences between us since we were different races and from different cultures. It ...

It is no disgrace to move out of the way of the elephant. ~ Vietnamese proverb ~ Photo by easegill .

summer grasses all that remains      of soldiers' dreams ~ Basho ~ Photo courtesy the U.S. Army .

from his hole the snake pokes his head... the cat slaps it ~ Issa translated by David G. Lanoue ~

It think maybe that's why people write fiction, and why people read it, is because you don't know who you are unless you can imagine...

Haiku shows us what we knew all the time, but didn't know that we knew. ~ R.H. Blyth ~ Image courtesy Library of Congress .

I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods. ~ Imogen Cunningham ~ Photo © Imogen Cunningham Trust, courtesy National Galle...

The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life. ~ Andrew Brown ~ Photo by Steve...

Let your dreams outgrow the shoes of your expectations. ~ Ryunosuke Satoro ~ Photo courtesy the Virtual Shoe Museum .

Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts--the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art. ...

She rubs my chin and purrs away, as if I am a game to play! ~ Aileen Fisher from "My Cat and I" ~ Photo © Diane Mayr, all rights r...

Feminism represents all women, young and old, pretty and plain, boisterous and shy, married and single, straight and gay. That's the who...

Words are more powerful than perhaps anyone suspects, and once deeply engraved in a child's mind, they are not easily eradicated. ~ May ...

People worldwide are rediscovering the benefits of buying local food. It is fresher than anything in the supermarket and that means it is ta...

I'm in awe of people out there who deal with Alzheimer's, because they have to deal with death 10 times over, year after year. ~ Mar...

All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers. ~ François Fénelon ~

Cartoon courtesy Dilbert.com .

1. Find sunbeam. 2. Lie down. 3. Sunbeam moves just as you fall asleep. 4. Wake up cold. 5. Repeat until you are a nihilist. ~ Henri, le Cha...

Once you start to see praise for what it is--and what it does--these constant little evaluative eruptions from adults start to produce the s...

Spider, you and I are kin; Our deepest selves we both disburse. Your entrails into silk you spin,       And I mine into verse. ~ Paul Scott ...

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either. ~ Albert Einstein ~

I often went to bed without supper cause I hated my mother's cooking. So, to go to bed without supper was not a torture to me. If she wa...

A great nation is a reading nation. ~ Frederic Melcher ~ Poster courtesy Children's Book Week .

"Oh, Mother, see what we have found! The bank was covered with berries, even after we had picked all these!" "Why, boys, it i...

We had birds, gold-fish, a fine dog, rabbits, a small monkey, and a cat. This latter was a remarkably large and beautiful animal, entirely b...

We'll free the people with music. ~ Bob Marley ~

They are milestones to see where you are now, to perpetuate your feelings, to establish them. If you have in any way touched the central hea...

These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves. ~ Gilbert Highet ~

One's prime is elusive. You little girls, when you grow up, must be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life i...

Monuments and archaeological pieces serve as testimonies of man's greatness and establish a dialogue between civilizations showing the e...

I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won't contribute anything themselves. Give...

"Please--ma'am--the cat has put her kittens--in--your--bonnet!" Such a breach of discipline had never been known before in our...

Today a reader, tomorrow a leader. ~ Margaret Fuller ~ Image courtesy Library of Congress .

...I was to learn that Mama had an articulate theory about reading poetry aloud to children, a theory not surprising for she was a pianist. ...

I must be like the princess who felt the pea through seven mattresses; each book is a pea. ~ C. S. Forester ~ (Note: the poor man must have ...

Being a princess isn't all it's cracked up to be. ~ Princess Diana ~

I feel sure that no girl would go to the altar if she knew all. ~ Queen Victoria ~

More than 4.8 Billion Artifacts are held in public trust by more than 30,000 archives, historical societies, libraries, museums, scientific ...

I'm surrounded by morons. ~ Henri ~

Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you. ~ Frank Lloyd Wright ~ Carol M. Highsmith photo of Wright's Chu...

The important thing about writing is the rewriting. In order to make a poem look unworked, you have to work a lot. ~ Kay Ryan ~

All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth. ~ Richard Avedon ~