i miss you dad poems

All men are sculptors, constantly chipping away the unwanted parts of their lives, trying to create their idea of a masterpiece. ~Eddie Murphy, 1979



This is a little prayer dedicated to the separation of church and state. I guess if they are going to force those kids to pray in schools they might as well have a nice prayer like this: Our Father who art in heaven, and to the republic for which it stands, thy kingdom come, one nation indivisible as in heaven, give us this day as we forgive those who so proudly we hail. Crown thy good into temptation but deliver us from the twilight's last gleaming. Amen and Awomen. ~George Carlin



A lifetime of training for just ten seconds. ~Jesse Owens



Christmas is the gentlest, loveliest festival of the revolving year - and yet, for all that, when it speaks, its voice has strong authority. ~W.J. Cameron



Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it. ~Harold Hulbert



If you're going through hell, keep going. ~Winston Churchill



Human destiny is bound to remain a gamble, because at some unpredictable time and in some unforeseeable manner nature will strike back. ~Rene Dubos, Mirage of Health, 1959



He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom. ~James Gibbons Huneker



My country is the world, and my religion is to do good. ~Thomas Paine



The words you choose to say something are just as important as the decision to speak. ~Author Unknown



No road is long with good company. ~Turkish Proverb



Excuses are the nails used to build a house of failure. ~Don Wilder and Bill Rechin



Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses. ~Alphonse Karr



Fear prejudices courage. ~Abigail Charleson



When you dig another out of their troubles, you find a place to bury your own. ~Author Unknown



The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing - and then marry him. ~Cher



The subject of gambling is all encompassing. It combines man's natural play instinct with his desire to know about his fate and his future. ~Franz Rosenthal, Gambling in Islam, 1975



No man needs a vacation so much as the person who has just had one. ~Elbert Hubbard



If pregnancy were a book they would cut the last two chapters. ~Nora Ephron, Heartburn, 1983



Against Him those women sin who torment their skin with potions, stain their cheeks with rouge and extend the line of their eyes with black coloring. Doubtless they are dissatisfied with God's plastic skill. In their own persons they convict and censure the Artificer of all things. ~Tertullian