Lara Cotten Quotations

I am amazed by the privileges people think they deserve when they haven't done the hard work. By hard work, I mean paying your dues. A nurse does not get the same privileges as a doctor and there is a reason why. It is the level of effort and responsibility it takes to get there and stay there.

I've started to save pennies in a jar for something special down the road. Since then, I seem to find pennies everywhere I go. I know it is a little thing. But God provides big things and little things; all our needs. He is in the details of our lives.

People who know each other only by acquiantance should give each other the benefit of the doubt. Words and circumstances can be misunderstood when you don't know the whole story. Life is complicated; histories lie behind people. Sometimes people need to do things or say things we just can't understand. It is not our place to assume we know all there is to know.

Advice to students: The higher your education, the more income you will probably earn, with better job security, better benefits, better hours, better perks, more authority, more autonomy. You aren't given these things, you earn them by degree. It's worth it.

For my generation the attack on the World Trade Center is the first event when we can collectively remember where we were at that moment. It is probably the first time we understood what it was like to be fearful for our nation and our own lives.