’05-’06 Theme Quotations Table of Contents
This list of quotations is the complete version – the 2005 Pow Wow book contains a
smaller subset.
Quotations contain the wisdom of the ages, and are a great source of inspiration for
Cubmaster’s minutes, material for an advancement ceremony or an insightful addition to
a Pack Meeting program cover. In addition to conveying wisdom they send a message
that the values of scouting are timeless. Using quotations is also a way to introduce boys
to literature and history.
Some of the quotes contained are above the heads of Cub Scout boys, but are included as
a source of inspiration to a Cubmaster or Den Leader, and can be paraphrased for best
use. Sometimes a quotation may trigger you to think of the theme in a way that you had
not originally envisioned.
The quotations of Lord Robert Baden-Powell are from the book “Footsteps of the
Founder, which is available from the Scout store. I hope you enjoy these quotations, and
find many uses for them.
“The Scout training tends to make the boys into better men – in fact, into gentlemen,
which, in the terms of the definition of Bernard Shaw, is one who does not expect to take
more from the world than he gives to it.” – Lord Robert Baden-Powell
Mar-’05 Invention Convention
Every Cub Scout can be a genius or an inventor. Cub Scouts can learn about inventors
and geniuses of the past, present, and future. Give each boy a Cub Scout Genius Kit of
recycled odds and ends and tell him to invent something. Cub Scouts will learn what we
recycle, what becomes of it, and how we can help. Present all the inventions at the pack
meeting and award prizes to all category winners. Also have exhibits of what recycling is
all about and how we can help. Let your imagination and your own genius lead the way.
March Quotations
Apr-’05 Waterways of the USA
Rivers have always been a vital part of our environment. Cub Scouts can use a map to
trace a local river, then draw other waterways that connect to it. Dens can invite experts
to talk about local rivers. Cub Scouts can learn how early explorers used rivers, and how
important rivers are in transporting people and products. Discover how rivers are used for
irrigation and to generate electricity. Investi-gate the history, folklore or legends, songs,
and types of boats that are associated with rivers. Dens can help with keeping a local
river clean and work on their World Conservation Award or the Conservation Good Turn
Award. Hold a pack raingutter regatta.
April Quotations
May-’05 Cub Pet Pals
It's not just our parents and siblings who live with us, but our pets do as well. Learn to
care for a pet and draw or take their picture to show at the pack meeting. The American
Humane Society has desig-nated the first full week of May as "Be Kind to Animals
Week:' Discuss responsible care of pets. Visit a local pet shop and see birds, reptiles, and
other exotic pets. Visit the Humane Society, a local shelter, or a dog or cat breeder. Make
something for your pet like a toy or a new home at the den meeting. Remind boys never
to pet strange animals.
May Quotations
Jun-’05 Destination Parks
America is blessed with an abundance of natural parks. Point out national or state parks
on a map and tell why the land became park-land. Learn the rules of safe hiking, about
"hugging a tree," and the Outdoor Code. Construct your own hiking stick and pack a
back-pack with a personal first aid kit, food, water, insect repellent, sun-screen, and a
poncho. Cub Scouts can explore the trails at the local park or the council's camp and tell
what they saw. Work on a service project to improve the local park.
June Quotations
Jul-’05 Play Ball!
The season of fun in the sun is here! This is the time of year for sports, outdoor picnics,
and exploring. Dens should play games and learn about sportsmanship. Cub Scouts can
work on Sports belt loops and pins as they participate with their den or pack. Put the
outing in Scouting and go to a baseball game as a pack. Use the big outdoors and the time
of summer to enjoy all that it offers. Get the baseball gloves, balls, and bats out and have
your own baseball game between the parents and the Cub Scouts.
July Quotations
Aug-’05 Campfire Tales & Traditions
A campfire is a great way to close the summer and begin the fall. How about telling a few
tall tales and having a songfest? Use the Campfire Planning Guide as dens are assigned to
prepare the parts of your pack's campfire program. This will be a great opportunity to
recruit, so invite potential new members. Webelos Scouts can learn about fire building
and fire safety. How about marshmallows or s'mores around the campfire? Don't forget to
leave the area as clean or cleaner than you found it!
August Quotations
Sep-’05 Cub Scout Roundup
Explore the wild and wooly West as you round-up new membership. This month learn
about the Chisholm Trail and its hardships. Locate on a map the actual route that the
cattle drive took. Find out what the cowboys wore and the safety reason for each
garment. Learn about leather and rope-making crafts from each. Plan a field trip to see
horses and wagons or learn about Western history. Learn to sing "Home on the Range"
and other western songs. Experience trail food as everyone tries beans and jerky for
dinner.
September Quotations
Oct-’05 To The Rescue
Cub Scouts will learn how to avoid accidents and be prepared for emergencies this
month. Have a policeman talk about safety at home, at school, and in public. Learn how
to be safe around insects, snakes, animals, and plants, or when swimming or riding a
bike. Visit the local center for 9-1-1 calls so that Cub Scouts can learn how to call 9-1-1
and what information to give from the home, cell, or pay phone. Have an EMT teach
basic age-appropriate Cub Scout first aid. Make first aid kits for the family automobile,
for home, or for boys to carry with them. Use the buddy system during the den and pack
meetings and have buddies develop a secret code or nickname. At the pack meeting, use
games or mock accidents so that Cub Scouts can show they are prepared to come to the
rescue.
October Quotations
Nov-’05 My Family Tree
Is your family Irish or Italian, Hispanic or Greek? Learn where your ancestors came from
and trace your family's heritage. Find out what they did and what their customs were.
Every family is different, and everyone has something special to offer. Bring something
from your family to the pack meeting for Show and Tell. Make projects about different
countries to display at the pack meeting. Read stories from other lands and find out what
types of games are played in those countries. Have snacks at your den or pack meeting
from different countries. Have your Cub Scouts work on the Academics belt loop for
Heritages or Language and Culture.
November Quotations
Dec-’05 Faith, Hope and Charity
This time of year is packed with family faiths, hopes for the future, duty to God, and
charity to all. Service projects are a way to give thanks while helping those in need in our
neighborhoods and in our schools. Share family or historic traditions with your den or
pack. Celebrate the holiday season with foods and crafts that are appropriate to the
various faiths. Build a glove or mitten tree during a pack meeting or organize a food
collection where everyone brings some-thing to share with those in need.
December Quotations
Jan-’06 Music Magic
Cub Scouts will get their vocal cords humming and their instruments strumming in a
musical extravaganza! Learn to sing a variety of styles like pop, country, folk, or
barbershop. Work on the Academics belt loop or pin in Music. Learn the history of a
particular song or songs or learn about the various musical instruments. Why not use
odds and ends to make your own instruments and accompany the choir? Den meetings
can be your "rehearsals" and the pack meeting your "performance!" Best of all, everyone
can join in and sing along. Take your show on the road to a local community activity or
to a nursing home. Music is a universal language, so help to bring joy.
January Quotations
Feb-’06 Cubs in The Future
How will Cub Scouts celebrate the blue and gold banquet in the year 2106? What vehicle
will take them? Will the stars be their guides? Make models of these new forms of
transportation, and of a home or school of the future, and then use them as blue and gold
banquet decorations. Create designs for future Cub Scout uniforms and awards. Build an
exhibit of model campsites on a distant planet. Be creative with your futuristic menus.
Top off the evening with" intergalactic" games.
February Quotations
Mar-'05 Invention Convention
“A motor car is a wonderful contraption of machinery, with its valves, cylinders, electric
connections and complicated greas all assembled and neatly fitted to act on each other,
but useless as a mobile agent without the addition of the right spirit.” – Lord Robert
Baden-Powell
“Don’t give up because you do not find everything you need made to order at your hand,
but take what you have, use your wits, and make the most of it..” – Lord Robert BadenPowell
“Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration.” – Thomas Alva Edison
“Older people ask – ‘What is it?’ the boy asks ‘What can I do with it?’” – Steve Jobs
“Throw some simple and cheap ingredients in a bag, shake it, bake it, and go to market.”
– Guy Kawasaki, “Rules for Revolutionaries”
“The ultimate use of a product can be unrelated to its creator’s intentions.” – Guy
Kawasaki, “Rules for Revolutionaries”
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” - Arthur C.
Clarke
“Man’s mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.” Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
“To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.” - Joseph Chilton Pearce
“Whether you believe you can or believe you can’t, you’re right.” - Joey Abzo
Croemboza
“Imagination is more important than knowledge, for knowledge is limited while
imagination embraces the entire world.” - Albert Einstein
“You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.” - Mark Twain
“The great danger for most of us is not that we aim too high and we miss it, but that it is
too low and we reach it.” - Michaelangelo
“I’d rather know some of the questions than all of the answers.” - James Thurber
“Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.” – Jlal Ud-Din Rumi
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Apr-'05 Waterways of the USA
“No Scout can consider himself a full-blown Scout until he is able to swim and to save
life in the water.” – Lord Robert Baden-Powell
“Every man ought to be able to swim. Mentally, it gives the boy a new sense of selfconfidence and pluck; morally, it gives him the power of helping others in distress and
puts a responsibility upon him of actually risking his life at any moment for others; and
physically, it is a grand exercise for developing wind and limb.” – Lord Robert BadenPowell
“In rivers and bad governments, the lightest things swim at the top.” - Benjamin Franklin
“All rivers do what they can for the sea.” - Thomas Fuller: Gnomolagis, 1732
“No one has ever been twice on the same stream for different waters are constantly
flowing down. It dissipates its waters & gathers them again; it approaches & recedes;
overflows & fails.” - Edward Gibbon, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
"Believe me, my young friend, there is NOTHING-- absolutely nothing-- half so much
worth doing as simply messing about in boats. "Look here! If you've really nothing else
on hand this morning, supposing we drop down the river together, and have a long day of
it?" Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
The servitude of rivers is the noblest triumph of man - Edward Gibbon, Decline and Fall of
the Roman Empire
We cannot make rivers whole unless we wholly understand them. - Rob Brown, Wheeler
School, Providence, R. I.
There's no striving against the stream; and the weakest still goes to the wall. - Miguel de
Cervantes, from Don Quoxite
The mark of a successful man is one that has spent an entire day on the bank of a river
without feeling guilty about it. - Chinese Philosopher
Though living near a river, do not waste water; though living near mountains, do not
waste firewood. - Chinese Proverb, cited in 1875 collection
When you drink the water, remember the spring. - Chinese Proverb
Like swift water, an active mind never stagnates. - Author Unknown
If the river leaves a lot of trash, it will come back some time soon to get it. - Author
Unknown
“When the well is dry, we know the worth of water.” - Benjamin Franklin
“To get clear water, one must go to the source.” - French Proverb
“Dirty water will quench few.” - French 16th Century Proverb
(The water commissioner in Rome) “must see that no one draws water without a written
authorization from Caesar. He must exercise great vigilance against manifold forms of
fraud.” Frontius (about A.D. 35-about A.D. 103), The Water Supply of Rome, c. 100
Throughout the history of literature, the guy who poisons the well
has been the worst of all villains... - Author Unknown
“What runs but never gets tired? Water.” - Author Unknown
“Only dead fish swim with the stream.” - Author Unknown
“A man of wisdom delights in water. - Confucius, Analects
A little rain each day will fill the rivers to overflowing. - African Proverb, Liberia
Filthy water cannot be washed. - African Proverb, West African
You don’t drown by falling into water. You drown by staying there. - Robert Allen
The frog does not drink up the pond in which he lives. - American Indian Proverb, quoted
in David Zwick, Water Wasteland, 1971
All the water there will be, is. . - Author Anonymous
Boundaries don't protect rivers, people do. - Aristotle
Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and
drowns things weighty and solid. - Sir Francis Bacon, (1561-1626)
Oh, don't say anymore, please! Have I got to learn the shape of the river according to all
these five hundred thousand different ways? If I tried to carry all that cargo in my head
it would make me stoop-shouldered."
No you only learn the shape of the river; and you learn it with absolute certainty that you
can always steer by the shape that's in your head, and never mind the one that's before
your eyes."
Very well, I'll try it; but, after I have learned it, can I depend on it? Will it keep the same
form and not go fooling around?
Samuel L. Clemens, Life on the Mississippi
Expect poison from the standing water. - William Blake
We all drink somebody else's sewage. - Kenneth E. Boulding, in Anne Chisholm, ed.,
Philosophers of the Earth: Conversations with Ecologists, 1972
What makes a river so restful to people is that it doesn’t have any doubt -- it is sure to get
where it is going, and it doesn’t want to go anywhere else. - Hal Boyle
The song of the river ends not at her banks but in the hearts of those who have loved her.
- Buffalo Joe
Sit by a river.
Find peace and meaning
In the rhythm
Of the lifeblood of the Earth
Author Unknown
No one can see their reflection in running water. It is only in still water that we can see.
Chinese, Taoist proverb
"We call upon the waters that rim the earth, horizon to horizon, that flow in our rivers
and streams, that fall upon our gardens and fields, and we ask that they: Teach us, and
show us the way." American Indian, Chinook Blessing Litany, Earth Prayers from
Around the World, 1991
There are some people who leave impressions not so lasting as the imprint of an oar
upon the water. - Kate Chopin
Men may dam it and say that they have made a lake, but it will still be a river. It will keep
its nature and bide its time, like a caged animal alert for the slightest opening. In time, it
will have its way; the dam, like the ancient cliffs, will be carried away piecemeal in the
currents. - Wendell Berry
If you could tomorrow morning make water clean in the world, you would have done, in
one fell swoop, the best thing you could have done for improving human health by
improving environmental quality. - William C. Clark
We forget that the water cycle and the life cycle are one. - Jacques Cousteau
Next to blood relationships, come water relationships. - Stanley Crawford, Mayordomo
When you put your hand in a flowing stream, you touch the last that has gone before and
the first of what is still to come." - Leonardo da Vinci
Water is the driver of Nature. - Leonardo da Vinci
In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that
Which comes, so with time present. - Leonardo da Vinci, From his notebooks, translated by
Edward McCurdy
"When you're conserving a river, you are conserving a life. - Kevin Coyle, American
Rivers
The mill cannot grind with water that is past. - English 17th Century Proverb.
Water, water every where,
And all the boards do shrink,
Water, water every where,
Nor any drop to drink.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Ancient Mariner
Alph, the sacred river, ran, Through caverns measureless to man, Down to a sunless sea.
- S.T. Coleridge: Kubla Khan, 1816
From a drop of water a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara
without having seen or heard of one or the other. So all life is a great chain, the nature of
which is known whenever we are shown a link of it. - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock
Holmes: A Study in Scarlet
"We have rearranged the rivers at our pleasure as one might change the apples in a
bowl." - Thomas Hornsby Ferril
“The good rain, like the bad preacher, does not know when to leave off.” Ralph Waldo
Emerson
“Who looks upon a river in a meditative hour, and is not reminded of the flux of all
things? Throw a stone into the stream, and the circles that propagate themselves are the
beautiful type of all influence.” Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature
“Children of a culture born in a water-rich environment, we have never really learned
how important water is to us. We understand it, but we do not respect it.” William
Ashworth, Nor Any Drop to Drink, 1982
“One major, overwhelming reason why we are running out of water is that we are killing
the water we have.” William Ashworth, Nor Any Drop to Drink, 1982
“Water has become a highly precious resource. There are some places where a barrel of
water costs more than a barrel of oil.” Lloyd Axworthy, Foreign Minister of Canada
(1999 - News Conference)
“The river delights to lift us free, if only we dare to let go. Our true work is this voyage,
this adventure.” Richard Bach
“Wild rivers are earth's renegades, defying gravity, dancing to their own tunes, resisting
the authority of humans, always chipping away, and eventually always winning.”
Richard Bangs, River Gods
“Canoes, too, are unobtrusive; they don't storm the natural world or ride over it, but
drift in upon it as part of its own silence. As you either care about what the land is or not,
so do you like or dislike quiet things -- sailboats, or rainy green mornings in foreign
places, or a grazing herd, or the ruins of monasteries in mountains...Chances for being
quiet nowadays are limited.” John Graves, Goodbye to a River, ch. 4
“It was good fishing, a little too good. In angling, as in reading, suspense is a quality
worth having.” John Graves, Goodbye to a River, ch. 16
“The old swimming hole of those of us with a touch of gray in our hair is now, ten to one,
polluted and the boy of today is apt to be stricken with typhoid who swims in it. Pollution
is the big thing that this mighty national crusade has got to battle.” Will H. Dilig, Isaak
Walton league Monthly, September 1922
“If you grew up in the country, chances are you have fond memories of lazy days down
by a river, creek or pond.” Darlene Donaldson, The River, from Country Magazine
“Life is always flowing on like a river, sometimes with murmurs, sometimes without
bending this way or that, wed do no exactly see why; now ion beautiful picturesque
places, now through barren and uninteresting scenes, but always flowing with a look of
treachery about it; it is so swift, so voiceless, yet so continuous.” Faber
“So when environmentalists assert that we are, after all, part of the earth, it is no mere
rhetorical flourish. Our blood even contains roughly the same percentage of salt as the
ocean, where the first life forms evolved. They eventually brought onto the land a selfcontained store of the sea water to which we are still connected chemically and
biologically. Little wonder, then, that water carries such great spiritual significance in
most religions, from the water of Christian baptism to Hinduism's sacred water of life.”
Al Gore, Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit,
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May-'05 Cub Pet Pals
“An animal has been made by God, just as you have been. He is therefore a fellowcreature.” – Lord Robert Baden-Powell
“A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning
around three times before lying down.” Robert Benchley (1889 - 1945)
“It's funny how dogs and cats know the inside of folks better than other folks do, isn't it?”
Eleanor H. Porter (1868 - 1920), Pollyanna, 1912
“If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater, suggest that he wear
a tail.” Fran Lebowitz (1950 - )
“No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain
that he can hold his own in the conversation.” - Fran Lebowitz (1950 - )
“Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.”
- George Eliot (1819 - 1880), 'Mr. Gilfil's Love Story,' Scenes of Clerical Life, 1857
“Old age means realizing you will never own all the dogs you wanted to.” - Joe Gores
“My dog is worried about the economy because Alpo is up to 99 cents a can. That's
almost $7.00 in dog money.” - Joe Weinstein
“Be kind to your web-footed friends, for a duck may be somebody’s mother.” Unknown
“If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same
thing, it is because your lap is warmer.” - Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947)
“Yesterday I was a dog. Today I'm a dog. Tomorrow I'll probably still be a dog. Sigh!
There's so little hope for advancement.” - Charles M. Schulz (1922 - 2000), (Snoopy)
“We are alone, absolutely alone on this chance planet: and, amid all the forms of life that
surround us, not one, excepting the dog, has made an alliance with us.” - Maurice
Maeterlinck (1862 - 1949)
“Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats to pull a sled through snow.” - Jeff
Valdez
“If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the
principal difference between a dog and a man.” - Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
“I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals”. - Sir
Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
“A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of.” - Ogden Nash (1902 - 1971)
“We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but
they do not suffer less because they have no words.” - Anna Sewell (1820 - 1878), Black
Beauty, 1877
“On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog.” - Peter Steiner, cartoon in The New
Yorker, July 5, 1993
“Did you ever walk into a room and forget why you walked in? I think that's how dogs
spend their lives.” - Sue Murphy
“I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite
people themselves.” - August Strindberg (1849 - 1912), A Madman's Diary, 1895
“There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.” - Albert
Schweitzer (01/14/1875-1965)
“Cats regard people as warmblooded furniture.” Jacquelyn Mitchard, The Deep End of
the Ocean
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Jun-'05 Destination Parks
“In ‘Scout’, there is ‘out’.” – Lord Robert Baden-Powell
“The open-air is the real objective of Scouting and the key to success.” – Lord Robert
Baden-Powell
“Camping is the joyous part of a Scout’s life.” – Lord Robert Baden-Powell
“When you leave the camp, leave nothing but your thanks and a good name.” – Lord
Robert Baden-Powell
“Camp is not essential for Cubs as it is for Scouts, and it is far better not to attempt camp
at all unless you have all the facilities and experience which are necessary. A good camp
may be of lasting value to your Cubs. A bad one will be a lasting reproach to you, your
Pack and probably to the whole Movement. It is better to train your boys by methods
possibly less attractive and slower than to risk this.” – Lord Robert Baden-Powell * this
warning felt appropriate to balance the Boy Scout quotes above. Family Camp, Day Camp &
hikes are good ways to gain experience in camping if you are a novice.
“Take only pictures;Leave only footprints; Waste only time.” - Unknown
“Take only footprints. Kill only time. Take only knowledge.” - Attributed to Linzo
Albatroza
“Don't step on anything you can step over; Don't step over anything you can step
around.” - Unknown
"The farther one gets into the wilderness, the greater is the attraction of its lonely
freedom." - Theodore Roosevelt
"It is an incalculable added pleasure to any one's sum of happiness if he or she grows to
know, even slightly and imperfectly, how to read and enjoy the wonder-book of nature." Theodore Roosevelt
"It was like lying in a great solemn cathedral, far vaster and more beautiful than any
built by the hand of man." - Theodore Roosevelt, on camping in Yosemite
“This land was made for you and me” – Woody Guthrie
“When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the
universe" - John Muir
“Man - despite his artistic pretensions, his sophistication, and his many accomplishments
- owes his existence to a six inch layer of topsoil and the fact that it rains”. - Author
Unknown
“The children must be drawn towards and not away from the woods and fields and
waters and must be led to see more clearly that . a man cut off from fellowship with the
creatures of the open air is like a tree deprived of all its lateral roots and trimmed to a
single branch. He may grow down and up, but he cannot grow out." - Stephen Forbes,
Founder and first chief of the Natural History Survey
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Jul-'05 Play Ball!
“Play the game – don’t look on.” – Lord Robert Baden-Powell
“We want to make 90% players in the game, in place of the usual 90% onlookers. Also
we want to raise the idea of the competition avobe professionalism, pot-hunting, moneymaking and betting to play for the honour and the sport of the thing.” – Lord Robert
Baden-Powell
“Teach the lads to be manly, to play the game, whatever it may be, and not merely be
onlookers and loafers.” – Lord Robert Baden-Powell
"Kids are always chasing rainbows, but baseball is a world where you can catch them." Johnny Vander Meer, Reds pitcher 1937-49
"It's just throwing and catching and hitting and running. What could be simpler than
that?” - Paul Richards, Orioles manager 1955-61
"Hello again, everybody. It's a bee-yoo-tiful day for Baseball" - Harry Carry
"They throw the ball, I hit it. They hit the ball, I catch it" - Willie Mays
"Baseball is 90% mental, the other half is physical......" - Yogi Berra
"I couldn't have done it without my players." - Casey Stengel On winning the 1958 World
Series
"Thou shalt not steal. I mean defensively. On offense, indeed thou shall and thou must."
Branch Rickey, Dodgers general manager 1943-50
"Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday's success or put its failures
behind and start all over again. That's the way life is, with a game every day that's the
way baseball is." - Bob Feller
"My office is Yankee stadium. Yes, dreams do come true" - Derek Jeter
"I would be lost without baseball. I don't think I could stand being away from it as long
as I was alive." - Roberto Clemente
"If you're not practicing, somebody else is, somewhere, and he'll be ready to take your
job." - Brooks Robinson
“Whether you want to or not, you do serve as role model. People will always put more
faith in baseball players than anyone else.” - Brooks Calbert Robinson, Baltimore Orioles
“You give 100 percent in the first part of the game, and if that isn't enough in the second
half you give what's left.” - Yogi Berra
“Little league Baseball is a very good thing, because it keeps the parents off the streets.”
Yogi Berra
"I don't want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it" - Roger
Hornsby
"Just take the ball and throw it where you want to. Throw strikes. Home plate don't
move." - Satchel Paige
"For five years in the minor leagues, I wore the same underwear and still hit .250,so
no, I don't believe in that stuff." - Dusty Baker, on superstitions
"Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball
team penalized for too many players on the field." Jim Boulton
"They have shown me ways to lose I never knew existed." - Casey Stengel On his 1962
Mets
"The only thing worse than a Mets game is a Mets double header." - Casey Stengel On his
1962 Mets
"Nobody knows this [yet], but one of us has just been traded to Kansas City." - Casey
Stengel to Outfielder Bob Cerv
"Well, I made up my mind, but I made it up both ways." - Casey Stengel on the question if
he quits in case his Yankees lose the World Series to the Pirates in 1960 [Baldham Boars]
"I broke in with four hits and the writers promptly declared they had seen the new Ty
Cobb. It took me only a few days to correct that impression." - Casey Stengel
"All right, everybody line up alphabetically according to your height." - Casey Stengel
"The secret of managing is to keep the guys who hate you away from the guys who are
undecided." - Casey Stengel
"Well, we've got this Johnny Lewis in the outfield. They hit a ball to him yesterday, and
he turned left, then he turned right, then he went straight back and caught the ball. He
made three good plays in one. And Greg Goossen, he's only twenty and with a good
chance in ten years of being thirty." - Casey Stengel On being asked how the Mets were
doing
"How should I know? Most of the people my age are dead. You could look it up." - Casey
Stengel On being asked about his future in the spring of 1965
"You have to have a catcher because if you don't you're likely to have a lot of passed
balls." - Casey Stengel
"I'd always heard it couldn't be done, but sometimes it don't always work." - Casey
Stengel
"Johnny Sain don't say much, but that don't matter much, because when you're out there
on the mound, you got nobody to talk to." - Casey Stengel, talking about a pitcher
"Jerry Lumpe looks like the best hitter in the world until you put him in the lineup." Casey Stengel
"I was such a dangerous hitter I even got intentional walks in batting practice." - Casey
Stengel
"You look up and down the bench and you have to say to yourself, "Can't anybody here
play this game?" - Casey Stengel
"There comes a time in every man's life and I've had plenty of them." - Casey Stengel
"You can't think and hit at the same time." - Yogi Berra
"I don't put any foreign substances on the baseball. Everything I use is from the good old
USA. - George Frazier, Yankees pitcher
"When you're in a slump, it's almost as if you look out at the field and it's one big glove."
- Vance Law
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Aug-'05 Campfire Tales & Traditions
“The Cubmaster can command rapt attention at any time by telling his Cubs a story, and
through it he can convey the lesson he wants to inculcate.” – Lord Robert Baden-Powell
"On Fame's eternal camping-ground Their silent tents are spread, And Glory guards with
solemn round The bivouac of the dead." - Unknown
“Not long after, I managed to turn a campfire into a sizeable forest fire and abandoned
my career as timber baron to become a reporter for the Territorial Enterprise.” – Mark
Twain
“They built a fire against the side of a great log twenty or thirty steps within the sombre
depths of the forest, and then cooked some bacon in the frying pan for supper, and used
up half of the corn "pone" stock they had brought. It seemed glorious sport to be feasting
in that wild, free way in the virgin forest of an unexplored and uninhabited island, far
from the haunts of men, and they said they never would return to civilization. The
climbing fire lit up their faces and threw its ruddy glare upon the pillared tree trunks of
their forest temple, and upon the varnished foliage and festooning vines.
When the last crisp slice of bacon was gone, and the last allowance of corn pone
devoured, the boys stretched themselves out on the grass, filled with contentment. They
could have found a cooler place, but they would not deny themselves such a romantic
feature as the roasting campfire.” – Mark Twain in Tom Sawyer
“Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.” - Hannah
Arendt
“You have to understand, my dears, that the shortest distance between truth and a
human being is a story.” - Anthony de Mello, from One Minute Wisdom
“There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no
societies that did not tell stories.” - Ursula K. LeGuin
“The tale is often wiser than the teller.” - Susan Fletcher (as Marjan, in Shadow Spinner)
“‘Thou shalt not’ is soon forgotten, but ‘Once upon a time’ lasts forever.” - Philip
Pullman (1996 Carnegie Medal acceptance speech)
“Words should be weighed, not counted.” - Jewish folk saying
“If stories come to you, care for them. And learn to give them away where they are
needed. Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive.” Barry Lopez
(as Badger, in Crow and Weasel)
“Story is the vehicle we use to make sense of our lives in a world that often defies logic.”
- Jim Trelease
“Of course it’s true, but it may not have happened.” - Patricia Polacco’s grandmother
“People who don’t have stories in their cultures go nuts.” - Rafe Martin
“To hunt for symbols in a fairy tale is absolutely fatal.” - W. H. Auden
“Camping is nature’s way of promoting the motel business.” – Dave Barry
“You see, I was one of those people who do not believe in enchantments. And because of
that, I must suffer to be enchanted myself, and to be chained and push this millstone
around.” - Richard Kennedy - (as the Chained Lady, in “Crazy in Love”)
“That’s the trouble with you sad-city types: a place has to be miserable and dull as
ditchwater before you believe it’s real.” - Salman Rushdie (as Blabbermouth, in Haroun
and the Sea of Stories)
“Telling the proper stories is as if you were approaching the throne of Heaven in a fiery
chariot.” - Baal Shem Tov (as quoted by Steve Sanfield)
“The destiny of the world is determined less by the battles that are lost and won than by
the stories it loves and believes in.” - Harold Goddard (The Meaning of Shakespeare)
“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because
they tell us that dragons can be beaten.” - G. K. Chesterton
“Australian Aborigines say that the big stories—the stories worth telling and retelling,
the ones in which you may find the meaning of your life—are forever stalking the right
teller, sniffing and tracking like predators hunting their prey in the bush.” - Robert Moss,
Dreamgates
“Stories tell us of what we already knew and forgot, and remind us of what we haven’t
yet imagined.” - Anne Watson
“We can never know truth, but some stories are better than others.” - Aaron Shepard
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Sep-’05 Cub Scout Roundup
“Well come along boys and listen to my tale, ’ll tell you of my troubles on the old
Chisholm Trail.” – Unknown, from the song “The Old Chisholm Trail”
“Like a ribbon across the prairie.”
- Unknown cowboy describing the Chisholm Trail
“Go west young man, go west" - Unknown cowboy
“Never approach a bull from the front, a horse from the rear, or a fool from any
direction.” - Unknown cowboy
“Don't squat with your spurs on.” - Unknown cowboy
“When you lose, don't lose the lesson.” - Unknown cowboy
“Live a good, honorable life. Then when you get older and think back, you'll enjoy it a
second time.” - Unknown cowboy
“Don't interfere with something that ain't botherin' you none.” - Unknown cowboy
“Timing has a lot to do with the outcome of a rain dance.” - Unknown cowboy
“It's better to be a has-been that a never-was.” - Unknown cowboy
“The easiest way to eat crow is while it's still warm. The colder it gets, the harder it is to
swaller.” - Unknown cowboy
“If you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop diggin'.” - Unknown cowboy
“If it don't seem like it's worth the effort, it probably ain't.” - Unknown cowboy
“It don't take a genius to spot a goat in a flock of sheep.” - Unknown cowboy
“Sometimes you get and sometimes you get got.” - Unknown cowboy
“The biggest troublemaker you'll probably ever have to deal with watches you shave his
face in the mirror every morning.” - Unknown cowboy
“Never ask a barber if you need a haircut.” - Unknown cowboy
“If you get to thinkin' you're a person of some influence, try orderin' somebody else's
dog around.” - Unknown cowboy
“Don't worry about bitin' off more'n you can chew; your mouth is probably a whole lot
bigger'n you think.” - Unknown cowboy
“Always drink upstream from the herd.” - Unknown cowboy
“Generally, you ain't learnin' nothing when your mouth's a-jawin'.” - Unknown cowboy
“Tellin' a man to git lost and makin' him do it are two entirely different propositions.” Unknown cowboy
“If you're ridin' ahead of the herd, take a look back every now and then to make sure it's
still there with ya.” - Unknown cowboy
“Good judgment comes from experience, and a lotta that comes from bad judgment.” Unknown cowboy
“When you give a personal lesson in meanness to a critter or to a person, don't be
surprised if they learn their lesson.” - Unknown cowboy
“When you're throwin' your weight around, be ready to have it thrown around by
somebody else.” - Unknown cowboy
“Lettin' the cat outta the bag is a whole lot easier than puttin' it back.” - Unknown
cowboy
“Always take a good look at what you're about to eat. It's not so important to know what
it is, but it's sure crucial to know what it was.” - Unknown cowboy
“The quickest way to double your money is to fold it over and put it back into your
pocket.” - Unknown cowboy
“You can't tell how good a man or a watermelon is 'til they get thumped.” - Unknown
cowboy
“Never miss a good chance to shut up.” - Unknown cowboy
“If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen are defrocked, shouldn't it follow that cowboys
would be deranged?” - Unknown cowboy
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Oct-’05 To The Rescue
“One of the chief duties of a scout is to help those in distress in any possible way that he
can.” - Lord Robert Baden-Powell
“The boys are taught service, beginning with the elementary good turn to mother on the
part of the cub, through the daily good turn and preparedness to save a life on the part of
the scout…” - Lord Robert Baden-Powell
“No Scout can consider himself a full-blown Scout until he is able to swim and to save
life in the water.” - Lord Robert Baden-Powell
“No one is born brave; ability begets confidence; confidence begets courage.” – Lord
Robert Baden-Powell
“The pluck required of a scout is of a very high order.” – Lord Robert Baden-Powell
“Whoever destroys a single life is as guilty as though he had destroyed the entire world;
and whoever resues a single life earns as much merit as though he had rescued the entire
world.” - The Talmud
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Nov-’05 My Family Tree
“Undoubtedly the mother’s influence gives as a rule the first impetus to character. A
mother cannot give that which she does not possess herself. Therefor it is all-important
that the mothers of our country should possess character of a hih quality in order to
inculcate it in their children.” – Lord Robert Baden-Powell
“Try to do things that will make your mother feel proud that you are her son, and never
do anything that would cause her to feel grieved or ashamed. She has done much for
you; do this for her.” – Lord Robert Baden-Powell
“Honor thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the
Lord thy God giveth thee.” – The Ten Commandments
“Acting is just a way of making a living; the family is life.” - Denzel Washington
“The family you come from isn't as important as the family you're going to have.” - Ring
Lardner
“If you don't know [your family's] history, then you don't know anything. You are a leaf
that doesn't know it is part of a tree.” - Michael Chrichton
“Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.” - Chinese Proverb
“Where can a person be better than in the bosom of their family?” - Marmontel Gretry
“I can get up in the morning and look myself in the mirror and my family can look at me
too and that's all that matters.” - Lance Armstrong
“To put the world right in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation
in order, we must first put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must first
cultivate our personal life; we must first set our hearts right.” Confucius
“A healthy family is sacred territory.” - Unknown
“Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it,
whoever you are, you need one.” - Jane Howard
“Your family and your love must be cultivated like a garden. Time, effort, and
imagination must be summoned constantly to keep any relationship flourishing and
growing.” - Jim Rohn
“Some family trees bear an enormous crop of nuts.” - Wayne H
“Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation. Your character is
what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are.” - Dale
Carnegie
“Bringing up a family should be an adventure, not an anxious discipline in which
everybody is constantly graded for performance.” - Milton R. Saperstein
“The principle of using interactivity as a creativity-builder is not restricted to computer
games. Once we become fully conscious of this principle, we can find ways to become
more interactive everywhere. We can make conversations with our family and friends
more interactive than they once were. The more thoughtful our questions get to be, the
more interactive the conversations.” - Steve Chandler
“The assassin and the slanderer differ only in the weapon they use; with the one it is the
dagger, with the other the tongue. The latter is worse than the former, for the first only
kills the body, while the other murders the reputation.” - Tyron Edwards
“My family is really boring. They have a coffee table book called 'Pictures We Took Just
to Use Up the Rest of the Film.'” - Penelope Lombard
“Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for 'tis
better to be alone than in bad company.” - George Washington
“Your reputation is in the hands of others. That's what a reputation is. You can't control
that. The only thing you can control is your character.” - Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
“Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.” Elbert Hubbard
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Dec-’05 Faith, Hope and Charity
“A. C. Benson used to say “There are four Christian values, not three: they are Faith,
Hope, Charity – and humor” - Lord Robert Baden-Powell
“Press forward with Hope; mix it with optimism and temper it with the sense of humor
which enables you to face difficulties with a sense of proportions.” - Lord Robert BadenPowell
“I’ve always maintained that if the right spirit is there, it can knock the “im” out of
impossible.” - Lord Robert Baden-Powell
“Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible and achieves the impossible.” - Anonymous
“Hope is the feeling you have that the feeling you have isn't permanent.” - Jean Kerr
“All human wisdom is summed up in two words - wait and hope.” - Alexander Dumas
“Expect to have hope rekindled. Expect your prayers to be answered in wondrous ways.
The dry seasons in life do not last. The spring rains will come again.” - Sarah Ban
“ Listen now to the gentle whispers of hope.” - Charles D. Brodhead
“While there's life, there's hope!” - Ancient Roman Saying
“Hope has been and always will be safe. It's inside every one of us.” - Xena
“Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul And sings the tune without the
words And never stops at all.” - Emily Dickenson
“Hope for the best but prepare for the worst.” - English Proverb
“Never deprive someone of hope -- it may be all they have.” - Unknown
“Hope is a waking dream.” - Aristotle (384-322 B.C.)
“In all pleasure hope is a considerable part.” - Samuel Johnson
“Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness and captivity
would, without this comfort, be insupportable.” - Samuel Johnson
“Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the
right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up.”
Anne Lamott Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
“True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings.” - William Shakespeare King Richard
“We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope.” - Dr. Martin
Luther King Jr.
“Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is to not
stop questioning.” - Albert Einstein
“Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.” - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
“Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that
something makes sense regardless of how it turns out.” - Vaclav Havel
“Your hopes, dreams and aspirations are legitimate. They are trying to take you
airborne, above the clouds, above the storms, if you only let them.” - William James
“We should not let our fears hold us back from pursuing our hopes.” - John Fitzgerald
Kennedy
“Every area of trouble gives out a ray of hope; and the one unchangeable certanity is
that nothing is certain or unchangeable.” - John Fitzgerald Kennedy
“There is no hope of joy except in human relations.” - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
“If you haven't any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.” - Bob
Hope
“Make your thinking orderly and free from emotional overtones, and you will see people
and things as they are, with clarity and charity.” - Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
“Peace, like charity, begins at home.” - Franklin D. Roosevelt
“Nine requisites for contented living: Health enough to make work a pleasure. Wealth
enough to support your needs. Strength to battle with difficulties and overcome them.
Grace enough to confess your sins and forsake them. Patience enough to toil until some
good is accomplished. Charity enough to see some good in your neighbor. Love enough
to move you to be useful and helpful to others. Faith enough to make real the things of
God. Hope enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.” - Johann
Wolfgang von Goethe
“A little more patience, a little more charity for all, a little more devotion, a little more
love; with less bowing down to the past, and a silent ignoring of pretended authority;
brave looking forward to the future with more faith in our fellows, and the race will be
ripe for a great burst of light and life.” - Elbert Hubbard
“Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains of
gratitude, since it was not to him but to God that the gift was made.” - Antoine de SaintExupery
“The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have
created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.” - Albert Einstein
“It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believe in
myself.” - Muhammad Ali
“Enthusiasm is nothing more or less than faith in action.” - Henry Chester
“All effort is in the last analysis sustained by the faith that it is worth making.” - Ordway
Tead
“Faith is the very first thing you should pack in a hope chest.” - Sarah Ban Breathnach
“You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.” - Samuel Butler
“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope or
confidence.” - Helen Keller
“Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory.” - Norman Vincent Peale
“Faith and love are apt to be spasmodic in the best minds. Men live the brink of
mysteries and harmonies into which they never enter, and with their hands on the doorlatch they die outside.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The mason asks but a narrow shelf to spring his brick from, man requires only an
infinitely narrower one to spring his arch of faith from.” - Henry David Thoreau
“He who loses money, loses much; He who loses a friend, loses much more, He who
loses faith, loses all.” - Eleanor Roosevelt
“The leader seeks to communicate his vision to his followers. He captures their attention
with his optimistic intuition of possible solutions to their needs. He influences them by the
dynamism of his faith. He demonstrates confidence that the challenge can be met, the
need resolved, the crisis overcome.” - John Haggai
“Leaders are the custodians of a nation's ideals, of the beliefs it cherishes, of its
permanent hopes, of the faith which makes a nation out of a mere aggregation of
individuals.” - Walter Lippmann
“Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.” - Helen
Keller
“Scientists were rated as great heretics by the church, but they were truly religious men
because of their faith in the orderliness of the universe.” -Albert Einstein
“Nine requisites for contented living: Health enough to make work a pleasure. Wealth
enough to support your needs. Strength to battle with difficulties and overcome them.
Grace enough to confess your sins and forsake them. Patience enough to toil until some
good is accomplished. Charity enough to see some good in your neighbor. Love enough
to move you to be useful and helpful to others. Faith enough to make real the things of
God. Hope enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.” - Johann Wolfgang
von Goethe (1749-1832)
“Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first
step.” - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Minister, Civil Rights Leader
“I do not pray for success. I ask for faithfulness.” - Mother Teresa
“Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.” Kahlil Gibran
“A little faith will bring your soul to heaven; A great faith will bring heaven to your
soul.” - Charles Spurgeon
“The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today; Let us move
forward with strong and active faith.” - Franklin D. Roosevelt
“A little more patience, a little more charity for all, a little more devotion, a little more
love; with less bowing down to the past, and a silent ignoring of pretended authority;
brave looking forward to the future with more faith in our fellows, and the race will be
ripe for a great burst of light and life.” - Elbert Hubbard
“Without faith, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible.” - Mary McLeod
Bethune (1875 - 1955) Educator
“To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation
is possible.” St. Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274)
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Jan-’06 Music Magic
“Most of us go to our grave with our music still inside of us.” - Unknown
“Without music, life is a journey through a desert.” - Pat Conroy
Approach your guitar intelligently, and if there are limits, don't deny them. Work within
your restrictions. Somethings you can do better than others, some things you can't do as
well. So accentuate the positive. Chet Atkins
“There is always music amongst the trees in the garden, but our hearts must be very
quiet to hear it.” - M. Aumonier
“Words make you think a thought. Music makes you feel a feeling. A song makes you feel
a thought.” - E.Y. Harburg (Edgar Yipsel) (1898 - 1981)
“It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do
with the writing of them. The words have just crawled down my sleeve and come out on
the page.” - Joan Baez
It takes a lot of devotion and work, or maybe I should say play, because if you love it,
that's what it amounts to. I haven't found any shortcuts, and I've been looking for a long
time. Chet Atkins
It is only by introducing the young to great literature, drama and music, and to the
excitement of great science that we open to them the possibilities that lie within the
human spirit -- enable them to see visions and dream dreams. Eric Anderson
“I improvised, crazed by the music. . . . Even my teeth and eyes burned with fever. Each
time I leaped I seemed to touch the sky and when I regained earth it seemed to be mine
alone.” - Josephine Baker (1906-1975) French dancer
“The trouble with real life is that there's no danger music.” - Jim Carrey from "The Cable
Guy"
“It's easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the right key at the
right time and the instrument will play itself.” - J.S. Bach
“There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.” - Albert
Schweitzer (01/14/1875-1965)
“All of us contain Music & Truth, but most of us can't get it out.” – “Mark Twain
“Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.” - Anais Nin
“Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain
silent.” - Victor Hugo
“Where words fail, music speaks.” - Hans Christian Andersen
“Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back
to loneliness.” - Maya Angelou
“All the sounds of the earth are like music.” - Oscar Hammerstein
“It had never occurred to me before that music and thinking are so much alike. In fact
you could say music is another way of thinking, or maybe thinking is another kind of
music.” - Ursula K. Le Guin
“I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.” - Elvis Presley
“Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.” - Igor Stravinsky
“ In music one must think with the heart and feel with the brain.” - George Szell
“You are the music while the music lasts.” - T. S. Eliot
“You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.” - Beverly
Sills
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Feb-’06 Cubs in The Future
“In the Troop you will have to think for yourself and stand on your won feet. You will
have to stop yourself from following a crowd if you are not sure that crowd is on a Scouty
job; you will have to stop yourself from giving up a thing because it seems dull and hard.
You will need real pluck and steadiness.”.” – Lord Robert Baden-Powell
“The best thing about the future is that it only comes one day at a time.” - Abraham
Lincoln
“I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.” - Albert Einstein
“In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.” Alex
Haley
“The future ain't what it used to be.” - Yogi Berra
“Let us revere, let us worship, but erect and open-eyed, the highest, not the lowest; the
future, not the past!” Charlotte Perkins Gilman
“I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I
know no way of judging of the future but by the past.” - Edward Gibbon
“In times of change, learners inherit the Earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.” - Eric Hoffer
“The kids can’t wait.” – Steve Jobs on working to get computers into schools.
“Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to
miss the future.” - John F. Kennedy
“The wave of the future is not the conquest of the world by a single dogmatic creed but
the liberation of the diverse energies of free nations and free men.” - John F. Kennedy
“Prediction is very difficult, especially of the future.” - Niels Bohr
“One faces the future with one's past.” - Pearl S. Buck
“The future is made of the same stuff as the present.” - Simone Weil
“These days people seek knowledge, not wisdom. Knowledge is of the past, wisdom is of
the future.” - Vernon Cooper
“Where there is no hope in the future, there is no power in the present.” - John Maxwell
“Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.” - Seneca (4 BC-65
AD)
“Always choose the future over the past.” - Brian Tracy
“The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour,
whatever he does, whoever he is.” - C.S.Lewis
“Your future depends on many things, but mostly on you.” - Frank Tyger
“If you want to know your past, look into your present conditions. If you want to know
your future, look into your present actions.” - Buddhist Saying
“Teaching people skills without giving them a vision for a better future a vision based on
common values -- is only training.” - Nido Qubein
“Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons
of reason which today arm you against the present.” - Marcus Aurelius
“He who neglects learning in his youth loses the past and is dead for the future.” Euripides
“Wanna make God laugh? Plan your future.” - Unknown
“The future is assured. It's just the past that keeps changing.” - Russian joke
“We drive into the future using only our rearview mirror.” - Marshall McLuhan
“In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually
find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists.” - Eric Hoffer
“In the future, how we gather, manage and use information will determine whether we
succeed or fail.” - Bill Gates
“Always remember the future comes one day at a time.” - Unknown
“The past is history; The future is a mystery; This moment is a gift; That is why this
moment is called the present; Enjoy it.” - Allan Johnson
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