Linda Ellerbee Quotes

If you believe in your heart that you are right, you must fight with all your might to do it your way. Only dead fish swim with the stream all the time.

How is it that so often . . . I get the feeling I’ve worked hard to learn something I already know, or knew, once.

Only dead fish swim with the stream all of the time.

We plant a tree that won’t be big enough to climb until we’re too old to climb trees, we write constitutions to protect the rights of people who won’t be born for another hundred years and may not be worth the trouble anyway, and we try to take care of our sick, though we all suffer from a disease for which there is no cure and no hope for one. We will not last and we know we will not – and still we write, carve, build, paint and plant to last. We are, it seems to me, very, very brave.

Always remember to set a place at the table of life for the unexpected guest.

Co-dependence…taking someone else’s temperature to see how you feel.

When the anchorman is wearing a colonel’s uniform, it tells you something.

I think laughter may be a form of courage. As humans we sometimes stand tall and look into the sun and laugh, and I think we are never more brave than when we do that.

What I like most about change is that it’s a synonym for ‘hope’. If you’re taking a risk, what you are really saying is, ‘I believe in tomorrow and I will be the part of it.

I believe in tomorrow and I will be part of it.

I am not for abortion; nobody is for abortion. I am for your right to make your own hard choices in this world.

People are pretty much alike. It’s only that our differences are more susceptible to definition than our similarities.