Tell me please! I want to know what your favorite quotes are. I love quotes. I could spend hour upon hour reading quotes, then I sometimes share them with you! I want your favorite quotes, it could be a famous quote or a quote from you or your family/friends. All I ask is that you keep them clean, I don't want to lose my family friendly status.
I plan to use your favorite quotes. I will use each of your quotes on this crazy little blog. Every quote I use I will link back to you. Sound okay with you?
And for all your trouble I am giving away some of my friend's cookbooks. We are so stinkin' proud of her. You know, Ree aka The Pioneer Woman. I don't think I have ever mentioned her on this site before. HA! Who am I kidding? Absolutely no one.
Her new book The Pioneer Woman Cooks is on the New York Times Best Seller list, it is flying off the shelves at your local bookstores and Wal-Marts. Don't wait for them to be restocked, I am giving away not one copy, or two. I am giving away a SLEW of them. Do you know how many a slew is? Stick around and you will see. I was going to close the comments tomorrow night, but then thought the whole quote thing might take longer. So…
Here's the deal:
Leave your favorite quote in the comments of this post. Only one quote per comment please. You can leave as many comments as you like, but please do not just enter the same comment 5 times, etc. Those will only be counted once. Now, if 5 different people use the same quote that is great, and it must be a pretty darn good quote. :)
Time will officially be up Tuesday night at 9 pm, CST.
I can't wait to read your quotes!! So, if you are ready to begin. Here we go…
On Your Mark!
Get Set!
GO!!!!
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Growing old is mandatory, growing up is optional
“Find out who you are and do it on purpose.” -Dolly Parton
All time favorite:
“After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.” -Aldous Huxley
We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails – Dolly Parton
Eat dessert – think of all the women on the Titanic that waved away the dessert cart!
The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself. ~Benjamin Franklin
Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker. Ogden Nash.
“What fresh Hell is this?”
-Dorothy Parker
It takes a village to raise a child.
That which does not kill us only serves to make us stronger!
“I love you.” ~My husband.
Those who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents–Andrew Carnegie
“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” — Eleanor Roosevelt
“The heart knows what the mind can only imagine.” I made that one up my ownself, but you can quote yourself, can’t you?
If you obay all the rules, you miss all the fun. Katherine Hepburn
Cleaning the house while the children are still growing, is like shoveling the sidewalk before it stops snowing! – Phyllis Diller
Dana (@) homesteadinghousewife.com
When you can’t have what you want, its time to start wanting what you have – Kathleen A. Sutton
PS: OBEY
Some kind of help is the kind of help that helping is all about. Some kind of help is the kind of help we can all do without. -Shel Silverstein
Be content with what you have, rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.
Cleaning while your children are growing is like shovelling while it’s still snowing.
Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself.
Eleanor Roosevelt
“Live every week like it’s shark week.” – Tracey Morgan (30 Rock)
I love the quotes and quips of Oscar Wilde…
“I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read on the train.”
If you don’t have anything nice to say, come sit by me.
Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where your backbone ought to be. ~Clementine Paddleford
“A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses; it is an idea that possesses the mind.”
Robert Oxton Bolton
May I never get too busy with my own affairs that I fail to respond to the needs of others with kindness and compassion.-Thomas Jefferson
“all i want is good honest dancin’, and people to enjoy their selves.” – jesco white, the dancing outlaw.
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
“You buy furniture.You tell yourself,this is the last sofa I will ever need in my life.Buy the sofa,then for a couple years you’re satisfied that no matter what goes wrong,at least you’ve got your sofa issue handled.Then the right set of dishes.Then the perfect bed.The drapes.The rug.Then you’re trapped in your lovely nest,and the things you used to own,now they own you.”
~Chuck Palahniuk
“Be yourself, everyone else is already taken” – Oscar Wilde
May those who accept their fate find happiness — those who defy it, glory.
“Each friend represents a world in us, a world not possibly born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.”
~ Anais Nin
“I keep searching for ‘I shall walk the Earth, and my hunger shall know no bounds,’ but I keep getting redirected to WeightWatchers.”
Ianto Jones (Torchwood)
“You must never underestimate the power of the eyebrow.” Jack Black
“Look for the dream that keeps coming back. It is your destiny.” seen in a picture of a fortune cooking on Flickr.
Things that are different can’t be the same-unknown
“Well-behaved women seldom make history” – Louise Thatcher Ulrich
“Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.” ~Groucho Marx
“Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. The third is to be kind.” -Henry James
“The definition of success–To laugh much; to win respect of intelligent persons and the affections of children; to earn the approbation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to give one’s self; to leave the world a little better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition.; to have played and laughed with enthusiasm, and sung with exultation; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived–this is to have succeeded.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The crazy flowers bloom there too”- Jack Kerouac
A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.
Mark Twain
Taken out of context I must seem so strange. ~Ani DiFranco
“Of all the things I’ve lost, I miss my mind the most” ~ Mark Twain
People don’t remember what you said, but they do remember how you made them feel
It is our choices…that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
Albus Dumbledore
“If you don’t have anything nice to say about anybody, come sit by me.”
If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we’d all be millionaires.
Abigail Van Buren
History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it. – Winston Churchill
“Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than those you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from safe harbor. Catch the wind in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” ~ Mark Twain
The human spirit is stronger than anything that can happen to it.
“The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes ‘Awww!'” – Jack Kerouac
Good people drink good beer – Hunter S. Thompson
“The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.” – Coco Chanel.
A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.
David Brinkley
Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels.
The trouble-makers. The round heads in the square
holes. The ones who see things differently.
They’re not fond of rules, and they have no respect
for the status-quo. You can quote them,
disagree with them, glorify, or vilify them.
But the only thing you can’t do is ignore them.
Because they change things.
They push the human race forward. And while
some may see them as the crazy ones,
we see genius. Because the people who are
crazy enough to think they can change the
world, are the ones who do.
Today is the tomorrow you wished for
“What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us” – AW Tozer
“Ever tried, Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.” Samuel Beckett
I thought of this quote often while going through my pre-nursing classes. I bet it will be a constant companion while I’m in the nursing program also.
A lack of planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on mine. ~Origin Unknown
A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Honore de Balzac
“Dream. Believe. Dare. Do.” – Walt Disney
I like quotes that make me laugh. My father in law is full of them. Some of my favorites are:
“Even a blind squirrel finds a nut sometimes” and “The Lord hates a coward”
Both are usually said many times during a card game. 🙂
“Because you are alive today means God thinks you will do some good, either for yourself or for others, that would go undone if you were to die this instant.” From the book The Real Meaning of Life.
“Se Hace Camino Al Andar,” translated as “We Make The Road by Walking”, or “We Make the Path as We Go.” -Antonio Machado, Spanish Poet
Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read. –Groucho Marx
Eating with the fullest pleasure – pleasure, that is, that does not depend on ignorance – is perhaps the profoundest enactment of our connection with the world. In this pleasure we experience and celebrate our dependence and our gratitude, for we are living from mystery, from creatures we did not make and powers we cannot comprehend. -Wendell Berry
Grow old with me–the best is yet to be.
No one should come to New York to live unless he is willing to be lucky. -E.B. White, Here is New York
“It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.” Seneca
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
“Never eat more than you can lift.” ~Miss Piggy
“I believe in low lights and trick mirrors.” – Mae West
“A people that values its privileges above its principles will soon lose both.” ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
“Henai Ma Tov Umaniam, Shevet Achim Gam Yachad,” translated as “See How Good and Pleasant It is for Brothers to Dwell Together in Harmony.”–Israeli Folk Song
If life hands you lemons, make lemonade.
I don’t work out. If God intended for me to bend over he would have put diamonds on the floor.
“Be the change you wish to see in the world” – Gandhi
“Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.” ~Albert Einstein
“I can be right or I can be happy. I choose to be happy.” -my husband
That is uglier than homemade sin. (my Grandmother)
Love doesn’t make the world go ’round; love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
~ Franklin P. Jones
“What is the meaning of life? Whatever you want it to be.” – James Frey
I’m not sure why this quote is so striking to me, but I think of it all the time.
“For God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of power, of love, and of self-discipline.” ~ 2 Timothy 1:7
“The fate of empires depends upon the education of the youth” ~ Aristotle
Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can read. Mark Twain
“Of all the Charlie Browns in the world, you’re the Charlie Browniest.” ~ Linus Van Pelt
Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely. –Karen Kaiser Clark
“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” ~Mae West
We’re adults. How did that happen, and how do we make it stop? -Meredith Grey
He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster, for if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you. ~Nietzsche
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it. George Bernard Shaw
A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.
-Theodore Roosevelt
In the beginning of a change, the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot. -Mark Twain
“Imagination is more important than knowledge.” Albert Einstein
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, ‘Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?’ Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. ~~ Marianne Williamson
“Arrogance is ignorance.” My own quote, Ronda Mullen
age isn’t hold old you are but how you feel
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Be the kind of woman that when your feet hit the ground each morning the devil says, “OH NO, SHE’S UP”!
“I want to know God’s thoughts; the rest are details.” Albert Einstein
“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself, any direction you choose.”
Dr. Seuss
“You can’t love anything more than something you miss” – Jonathan Safran Foer
“How lucky I am to have so much to lose.” -Catherine Newman
I have two. The first is from “Doctor Who:”
“What’s a horse doing on a spaceship?”
“Mickey, what’s Pre-Revolutionary France doing on a spaceship? Get a little perspective!”
And then from Walt Disney:
“I only hope that we never lose sight of one thing – that it was all started by a mouse.”
“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.” Albert Einstein
“I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they go right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart, so that better things can fall together.” – Marilyn Monroe
Never let the fear of striking out get in your way. -Yogi Berra
My perception is my reality. (unknown)
“No matter how together we may appear, even to ourself, buried deep within our heart is the vague sense that something is wrong, dreadfully wrong.”… Larry Crabb;
After receiving permission on the phone from her mother to stay a while longer,my visiting 6 year old granddaughter turned to me and said “I can’t wait to not leave!”
“If you don’t like this speed, you won’t be a bit happy with the next one!” Used by my Grandmother when you tried to make her hurry up.
This is a totally bizarre one, but it is from PW herself. I always anticipate her saying it:
“Hello, is this thing on?” (in relation to is anyone listening?)
Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind. -Dr. Suess
The wisest men follow their own direction. Euripides
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
-Theodore Roosevelt
I adore quotes! I have many favorites…here is one of them…
Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
–Nathaniel Hawthorne
“Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” Albert Einstein
You can get everything in life you want if you help enough other people get what they want.- Zig Ziglar
Mothers of little boys work from son up to son down.
“Don’t ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” Howard Thurman
“Life is an occasion, rise to it”
From the movie, Mr.Magorium’s Wonder Emporium
Oh this is hard — I collect quotations:
Puritanism is the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
—H. L. Mencken 1880 – 1956
“Don’t be so open-minded that your brains fall out.” My own personal quote, Ronda Mullen (even though I am sure I have heard others say it as well.)
Extraordinary people
DO
what ordinary people do not do.
My father always says that- not sure who said it originally.
Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: “What! You too? I thought I was the only one.”
— C.S. Lewis
Life is a rat race…..but even if you win, you are still a rat. Lily Tomlin
“Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies” Shawshank Redemption
I am a part of everything that I have read.
-Theodore Roosevelt
“Lack of preparation on your part should not constitute an emergency on my part.”
“Don’t associate with unsavory characters–tattooed, bearded mud-wrestlers .”
Both quotes courtesy of my mom–my hero, my guide and now my angel. 🙂
Failing to prepare is preparing to fail.
“Maybe some women aren’t meant to be tamed. Maybe they just need to run free til they find someone just as wild to run with them.”
Carrie Bradshaw (Sex and the City)
I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!
-Theodore Roosevelt
One that’s always resonated is a Helen Keller quote. “Keep your face to the sun and you cannot see the shadow.”
Be the change you want to see in the world. – Gandhi
“We are weaving character every day, and the way to weave the best character is to be kind and to be useful. Think right, act right; it is what we think and do that makes us who we are.” Elbert Hubbard
You are what you eat
To my kids when they say ‘it is fair’…. The fair only comes to town once a year…
All fart no sh*t.
“I am no longer afraid of storms, for I have learned to sail my own ship.” ~ Louisa May Alcott
“We’re all worms. But I do believe I’m a glow worm.” ~ Robin Williams
“Joy is not in things; it is in us.” ~ Richard Wagner
“In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: It goes on.” ~ Robert Frost
“Money is like manure; it’s not worth a thing unless it’s spread around encouraging young things to grow.” ~ Thornton Wilder
“If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive.” ~ Eleonora Duse
“Age does not always bring wisdom. Sometimes age comes alone.” ~Garrison Keillor
“Expect nothing, live frugally on surprise.”
~ Alice Walker
“Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.” ~ Abraham Lincoln
Trust thyself–every heart vibrates to that iron string. –Ralph Waldo Emerson
this quote got me through high school 🙂
In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.
-Theodore Roosevelt
“Do or do not, there is no try.” – Yoda 🙂
When life gives you lemons, have a tequila shot :-))
“Life is not measured by
the number of breaths we take,
but by the moments
that take our breath away.”
“You have to do what you’re good at.” – Me!
Be yourself, everyone else is already taken
Age is a state of mind
“I’ve had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn’t it.” –Groucho Marx (Sure, it’s not particularly deep, but the Marx Brothers crack me up!)
We’re grownups. When did that happen and how do we make it stop?
Grey’s Anatomy
If you’ve got time to lean, you’ve got time to clean (my mother Diane Cook)
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away – unknown
As long as there is life, there is hope.
“Don’t go for the okey doke.” – My Nana.
She has plent more where that came from.
Step away from the chocolate………..and nobody gets hurt!
Friends are all the decorations a home needs
I do not agree with what you have to say, but I’ll defend to the death your right to say it.
-Voltaire
my favorite — Life’s not about waiting for the storm to pass….It’s about learning to dance in the rain. Vivian Greene
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
Albert Einstein
“You totally look and act like mom! Everyone thinks our mom is hot, so… if you didn’t talk anymore you’d be set.” My youngest brother Brad, to me last night over drinks.
When caught between two evils, I generally pick the one I’ve never tried.
–Mae West
In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.
-Voltaire
“Well-behaved women rarely make history”
-Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
“There are two ways of meeting difficulties; you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.”
-Phyllis Bottome
Persistence, not perfection.
“We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered to us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.” C.S. Lewis
“There is no such thing as a weird human being, It’s just that some people require more understanding than others.”
-Tom Robbins
The best way to spread Christmas Cheer, is singing loud for all to hear. – Buddy from Elf
It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.
-Voltaire
If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans.
Woody Allen
“If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they’ll kill you.” (Oscar Wilde)
A laugh is a smile that bursts.
Mary H. Waldrip
I don’t give peole hell. I only tell them the truth and they think its hell.
“Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.” (Dorothy Parker)
“Every woman should have four pets in her life. A mink in her closet, a jaguar in her garage, a tiger in her bed, and a jackass who pays for everything.”
Paris Hilton
life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass.. it’s about learning to dance in the rain.
“Everyone must bow before madmen.” – Pirandello, Henry IV (I think…)
Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.
The real question is, Why is there silverware in the pancake drawer?
More fun than a barrel full of monkey’s.~ My Hubby
“Society, as we have constituted it, will have no place for me, has none to offer; but Nature, whose sweet rains fall on unjust and just alike, will have clefts in the rocks where I may hide, and secret valleys in whose silence I may weep undisturbed. She will hang the night with stars so that I may walk abroad in the darkness without stumbling, and send the wind over my footprints so that none may track me to my hurt: she will cleanse me in the great waters, and with bitter herbs make me whole.” — Oscar Wilde, De Profundis
True friends are the ones you can say anything to………..and they love you anyways.
“Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.” – Oscar Wilde
There’s no place like home!
I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen. Not only because I see it, but because I see everything by it. (C. S. Lewis)
“I invented ‘It’s a good thing’ before you were even born.”
Martha Stewart
Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
G.K. Chesterton
“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.” Pablo Picasso
If I could tell the story in words, I wouldn’t have to lug around this camera. – Lewis Hine
A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history – with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila.
If you don’t have anything nice to say, come sit by me. 🙂
“May your world be full of color and may your crayons never melt.”
=]
If you really want to be happy, no one can stop you.
“It’s okay to lose sometimes…Unless you’re in a gunfight” Ethan W age 8
I have a renewed commitment to elegance, she said, in case you think I’m just spending money for the fun of it. –Brian Andreas
If it doesn’t matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score? – Vince Lombardi
“Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker.” Ogdon Nash
The best things in life aren’t things…
“Love is not blind – It sees more and not less, but because it sees more it is willing to see less.”
-Will Moss
I’ll have what she’s having.
**When Harry Met Sally**
Have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don’t search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer. – Rainer Maria Rilke
My personalized version: Be with the questions, live into the answers. – Caroline Zeimet
“Perfection is simply a form of deception” -Samer Bazzi
Carnies…..they have small hands……. smell like cabbage…..
“You may be on the right track but, You’ll get run over if you just sit there.” Will Rogers
“There’s something wrong with a mother who washes out a measuring cup with soap and water after she’s only measured water in it.” – Erma Bombeck
“If you like it then you shoulda put a ring on it.”
Beyonce Knowles
Life isn’t measured by how many breaths you take, but by how many times your breath is taken away.
“The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.” – Michelangelo
I married a drama queen and I think that is why this is my fav quote (I don’t know who originally said it, sorry)
This too, in time, shall pass.
“If I had to live my life again, I’d make the same mistakes, only sooner.”
-Tallulah Bankhead
Satan’s greatest deception was convincing the world he didn’t exist.
“The only time to eat diet food is while you are waiting for the steak to cook.” – Julia Child
Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn’t have the power to say yes. ~
Eleanor Roosevelt
“You should never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
It is more blessed to give than to receive.
BIBLE, Acts 20:35
What if God decided to take away the things you forgot to thank him for?
Albert Einstein’s: Imagination is more important than knowledge.
“Inconceivable!” -Vizzini from The Princess Bride
Dogs must go to Heaven. After all, who could deserve it more?
And one I find myself saying to my husband lately: “You’re my peace of mind in this crazy world.” from “Beautiful in My Eyes” by Joshua Kadison
“May I be a girl who is more concerned with the growth of her soul than the ceasing of her pain”
Elizabeth Prentiss
“silence makes even idiots seem wise for a minute.” Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Enjoy life…this is not a dress rehearsal.
“You’ll have to be more specific than that, Dwight. I get like eight emails a day.” -Micael Scott, The Office
“I know how to write Chinese, I just don’t know how to read it.”
Emme McKie, age 5
“A southern girl is a girl who knows full well that she can open a door for herself but prefers for the gentleman to do it because it demonstrates a sense of respect. After all, every girl wants to be treated like a princess. We know how to make sweet tea and grits while telling you anything about any football team in the SEC. We pick our battles and fight with the heart of a pitbull while still maintaining grace and elegance. Our mystique is that of the soft-spoken, mild- mannered southern belle who could direct an army, loves her momma and will always, always, be a daddy’s girl.”
If with ink the oceans filled and were the skies of parchment made, if every stalk on earth a quill and every man a scribe by trade, to write the love of God above would drain the oceans dry, nor could the scroll contain the whole, tho stretched from sky to sky.
‘That’s a lotta water’
My nephew when he saw the ocean for the first time.
When God created man she was only joking!
“A southern girl is a girl who knows full well that she can open a door for herself but prefers for the gentleman to do it because it demonstrates a sense of respect. After all, every girl wants to be treated like a princess. We know how to make sweet tea and grits while telling you anything about any football team in the SEC. We pick our battles and fight with the heart of a pitbull while still maintaining grace and elegance. Our mystique is that of the soft-spoken, mild- mannered southern belle who could direct an army, loves her momma and will always, always, be a daddy’s girl.”
“He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose….”
-Jim Elliot
I can’t see this one, even though I thought I posted it. Sorry if I already did.
No one ever hurt their eyes by looking on the bright side.
“There is no division into sacred and secular; it is all one great, glorious life”
Oswald chambers
I am, not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world. –Socrates
‘This looks like God’
My nephew, when I had covered him in my collection of rhinestone jewelry from head to toe.
“I’m not a witch, I’m your wife!”
Overheard at the mall on Saturday
Even the Lord does not judge a man till the end of his days.
The person who knows how to laugh at himself will never cease to be amused.
–Shirley MacLaine
Truth is such a rare thing; it is delightful to tell it. –Emily Dickinson
Mom has boring clothes, but she is NOT a boring person – my 9 year old to her 4 year old brother, yesterday.
“Whoever said orange is the new pink was seriously disturbed.”
-Elle Woods
Writing is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as the headlights, but you make the whole trip that way. -E.L. Doctorow
The only difference between where you are and where you want to be is what you do.
Yes’m, old friends is always best, ‘less you can catch a new one that’s fit to make an old one out of. –Sarah Orne Jewett
“Be yourself, everyone else is already taken” – Oscar Wilde-
“So don’t worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will bring its own worries. Today’s trouble is enough for today.” (Matthew 6:34)
“Our God is a God of second chances.”
James McDonald
Sometimes people come into our lives and then quickly go, and we are never, ever the same.
Because I have a brother, I’ll always have a friend.
Well-behaved women never make history.
Do not fear death! Fear an unlived life……
Only the spoon knows what’s stirring in the pot.
Sicilian Proverb
Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
Mark Twain
A woman is like a teabag – you never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
[God] has infinite attention to spare for each one of us. He does not have to deal with us in the mass. You are as much alone with Him as if you were the only being He had ever created. – C.S. Lewis
“Your life is your message to your children.”
Gandhi (paraphrasing)
Oh I love quotes!
My favorite (though I don’t know the author):
“I’ve decided to quit my job, drop out of society, and wear live animals as hats”
It just speaks to me on soooo many levels 🙂
A woman is like a teabag-you never know how strong she is until she gets into hot water. Eleanor Roosevelt
When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other. -Chinese Proverb
Carpe diem!!
“Just when I start thinking it’s as good as it can get, this crazy life does somethin just to let me know I havent seen anything yet” -Brad Paisley
“Well,” said Pooh, “what I like best,” and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn’t know what it was called. ~A.A. Milne
You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me. ~C.S. Lewis
Imagination is more important than knowledge… -Albert Einstein-
“Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn whatever state I am in, therin to be content.” – Helen Keller
“Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: ‘What! You, too? Thought I was the only one.’” -C.S. Lewis
He who looks for a brighter tomorrow and finds no beauty today,
Has somehow missed the joy of living, somewhere along the way.
Happiness does not depend on what happens outside of you but on what happens inside of you.
Harold B. Lee
“Once you’ve put a thought out into the world, it can be disagreed with vigorously – even violently – but it cannot be unthought. This is the greatest gift that a writer offers the world.”
— Salman Rushdie
“This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted. ”
-C.S. Lewis
I remember a guy saying this, and it cracked me up:
“I’m so bright, my mother calls me SON”
“I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.” -C.S. Lewis
Never sugar coat anything you have to stay, It’s usually a lie and it causes cavities.
“The chief end of man is to glorify God and enjoy Him forever.” –Westminster Catechism
The best things in life aren’t things.
Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
-Joseph Campbell-
“Life becomes much easier when you trust that the universe will take care of you.”
-From my Year 2009 Horoscope
You only get one chance at first impressions
Sometimes the things that may or may not be true are the things a man needs to believe in the most. That people are basically good; that honor, courage, and virtue mean everything; that power and money, money and power mean nothing; that good always triumphs over evil; and I want you to remember this, that love… true love never dies. You remember that, boy. You remember that. Doesn’t matter if it’s true or not. You see, a man should believe in those things, because those are the things worth believing in.
–Secondhand Lions
This is how I try to live – believing the best about everyone and giving people the benefit of the doubt. It’s not easy, but it’s important.
“Whatever you are – be a good one” -Abraham Lincoln
“A persons a person no matter how small.” ~Dr. Suess
Tomatoes and oregano make it Italian; wine and tarragon make it French. Sour cream makes it Russian; lemon and cinnamon make it Greek. Soy sauce makes it Chinese; garlic makes it good.
Alice May Brock
“Empty your mind, be formless like water, if you put water into a cup it becomes the cup, put water into a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow, water can crash. Be water my friend.” -Bruce Lee
*If you do what you have always done, you’ll get what you’ve always got.
*You never know where you’re going ’til you get there.
*Yeah, and monkeys might fly out my butt.
“Knowing is not enough, you must apply; willing is not enough, you must do.” -Bruce Lee
The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly and Lie about your age. Lucille Ball
It ain’t your age, it’s your mileage.
“In theory, there is no difference between theory & practice. In practice, there is.” – Yogi Berra
That is slicker than snot on a doorknob!
“We did the best we knew how, and when we knew better we did better.” That’s from my wise grandma, and encourages me to do my best every day. 🙂
A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down. –Arnold H Glasow
“My favorite four-letter word is ‘shop.'” (Joan Rivers)
Be Who You Are and Say What You Feel Because Those Who Mind Don’t Matter and Those Who Matter Don’t Mind.
– Dr. Seuss
🙂
It’s all going to be okay in the end,
If it’s not okay, then it’s not the end.
“Time’s fun when you’re having flies” – Kermit the Frog
A person’s a person no matter how small. Dr.Suess
We can ask and ask but we can’t have again what once seemed ours forever. ~source unknown
“She flies with her own wings” – Latin Proverb
If it has tires or testicles, it’s gonna give you trouble.
“People aren’t either wicked or noble. They’re like chef’s salads, with good things and bad things chopped and mixed together in a vinaigrette of confusion and conflict.”
— Lemony Snicket
My Daddy always said, “You are defined by your actions.” because your actions speak in louder volumes than your words ever will. (that last part I added – apple doesn’t fall far from the tree, eh?) 😀
We do not the remember days…
We remember the moments”
Sorry I don’t know where it came from.
Eye for an eye makes the whole world blind. – Mahatma Ghandi
“Wars come and go, but my soldiers stay eternal.” -Tupac Shakur
My favorite quote is
“Não sou nada.
Nunca serei nada.
Não posso querer ser nada.
À parte isso, tenho em mim todos os sonhos do mundo.”
which translates to
“I am nothing.
I will never be something.
I cannot want to be something.
Apart from that, I have in me all the dreams of the world.”
by the Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa
My co-worker Josephine who lived in the Florida panhandle for a time, “I was busier than a cat in a room full of rocking chairs!!!”
The will of God will not take you where the grace of God cannot protect you!
Never take a person’s dignity: it is worth everything to them, and nothing to you.
All you need is love!
“Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday.”
John Wayne
Treat others as you want them to treat you.
“We can’t all be heroes. Someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.” – Will Rogers
If it flies, it dies. – my husband
People show you who they are
“If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.”
Maya Angelou
If life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead~ Johnny Carson
Be the change you want to see in the world.
“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
Maya Angelou
And my sweet hubby, who I think is actually quoting Kant when he says this, but he says it so often I’ll just say it’s from him, “Universalize your maxims!” Which basically means if you believe one thing, be consistent even in different contexts. He uses this in debates… and he debates with anyone/anything that will let him. Lord help me.
Respect is what we owe; love is what we give.
There is only one happiness in life….to love and to be loved
“Hope for the best, prepare for the worst, and take what you get”
…my father-in-law
“No three words have greater power then “I Love You”
Respect yourself is you would have others respect you.
“They must find it difficult – those who have taken the authority as truth, rather than truth as the authority.” – massey
“People who drive Volvos are now considering piercings. They are so mainstream now that no one even comments any more.” – Walter Hewitt
There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel that no one else has the right to blame us.
– Oscar Wilde
“whomever said freedom was free…never loved a soldier” unknown
“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. (Eleanor Roosevelt) ”
The squeaky wheel gets the grease!
If you expect the unexpected, doesn’t that make the unexpected expected?
Fall down seven times, get up eight. – Japanese Proverb
It’s never too late to live happily everafter.
If I wake up but don’t open my eyes, will the day go away? – Peppermint Patty in Peanuts
“People always clap for the wrong reasons.” – the one and only Holden Caulfield
The snarky comment of a stranger (or a co-worker) no longer has the power to ruin your day.
Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful. Ralph Waldo Emerson
“We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.”
–Winston Churchill
“A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.” – Bob Dylan
“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson~
“If you don’t stand for something, you’ll fall for anything.” I wish I knew who originated the statement.
“Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one getting burned.” -Buddha
“Life is not measured by the number of breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away.” ~Unknown~
here’s one of my favorites: “No one cares how much you know until they know how much you care.” Einstein. Loooooove that one. (I guess I should mention that I’m a science teacher.) 🙂
A woman is like a tea bag- you never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
If music be the food of love, Play On! (Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night)
A friend is someone who knows all you faults and likes you anyway.
-wisdom from a Snoopy poster =)
You get out of it, what you put into it.
My kids heard this ALOT:)
My favorite quote is by John Wayne:
“Courage is being scared to death but saddling up anyway”
my second favorite quote for the Duke – “Talk low, talk slow and don’t say too much”
I love thee with the breath, smiles, and tears of all my life and if God choose I shall but love thee better after death. -Elizabeth Barrett Browning
“Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.” -Theodore Roosevelt
“Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it.” -George Halas
“We must stop living the life we have planned in order to start living the life that is waiting for us.” ~Joseph Campbell~
“Don’t compromise yourself, it’s all you’ve got” -Janis Joplin
Everything in Moderation… me.
“Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves, for they shall never cease to be amused.”
You smile, oh, and then the spell was cast.
**From the song AT LAST**
You aren’t wealthy until you have something money can’t buy.– Garth Brooks
Never teach a pig to sing – it’s a waste of time and it annoys the pig.
John Wayne quotes:
“Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It’s perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we’ve learned something from yesterday.”
Bloom where you are planted
“Hope comes with every new dawn”
Can’t fix stupid….Joey Logano
Will Rogers Quote:
“Don’t let yesterday use up too much of today.”
“Tap tap. This thing on?” – pioneer woman
Because WHAT is possible in ART becomes thinkable in LIFE
A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.
Infinite goodness has wide arms. Dante
Family faces are magic mirrors. Buckley
You must be the change you wish to see in the world. –Mahatma Gandhi
Joy is not in things, it is in us! Richard Wagner
Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people. – Eleanor Roosevelt
If there isn’t a God then who pops up the next Kleenex?!
When I was three I spilled food on my new dress and my grandparents were worried that I would be upset, but I said “Who cares.” and it has stuck with the family ever since when something happens that is just not the end of the world.
“I definitely feel I do have God in my corner.”
“Bald men are better lovers”
My Grandma
Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair. ~Kahlil Gibran
“attitudes are contagious. Is yours worth catching?” and “tough times never last. Tough people do.” don’t know who said them. 🙂
“Men aren’t like us. They’re much more fragile and needy. The fact they think that we’re the needy ones is a testament to our superiority.” (I don’t believe it, it just makes me laugh.)
-Angela Montenegro, “Bones”
Life is not measured by moments, but by moments that take our breath away.
“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.”
-Friedrich Nietzsche
“its daytime you douche”
-blades of glory
“One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.”
-Friedrich Nietzsche
“Promise me you’ll always remember: You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.” Christopher Robin to Pooh
“No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.” (Aesop)
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
One of the advantages of being disorganized is the joy of discovery. – A.A. Milne
Last one….
I could never resist the call of the trail.
Buffalo Bill
Success is counted sweetest by those who ne’er succeed.
-Emily Dickinson
And I love it.
“Even a blind hog can find an acorn every once in a while” -my father-in-law, on the loss of Alabama to Utah (football) last year haha
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-Abraham Lincoln
“death leaves a heartache no one can heal. love leaves a memory no one can steal”
“Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.”
-Shawshank Redemption
Bite Me, my sisters farvorite.
Be prepared, not scared.-Ed Smart
“A ship in the harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for”
Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I’ll try again tomorrow. ~Mary Anne Radmacher
It rings true for me, I am a breast cancer survivor.
“Courage does not always roar. Sometimes, it is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, ‘I will try again tomorrow.'”
“there will come a time when you believe everything is finished… this will be the beginning” -Louis L’Amour
“you can’t lose what you don’t put in the middle… but you can’t win much either” -Rounders
“Well-behaved women seldom make history” – Louise Thatcher Ulrich
“the chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what you want most for what you want at the moment”
“I know the world’s a b*tch don’t get me wrong,
You’ve got to give the world the finger,
You’ve got to sing a happy song” -Rhett Miller
“my life’s in shambles, i need pie.” -Multiplicity
The way we spend our days, is of course, the way we spend our lives – Annie Dillard
” we could learn a lot from colors: some are sharp, some are pretty, some are dull, some have weird names and all are different colors…but they all have to learn to live in the same box!”
“One has fear in front of a goat, in back of a mule, and on every side of a fool”
Edgar Watson Howe.
From my dear Grandmother who lived through the depression and this quote continues to be relevant today.
Use it up
Wear it out
Make it do
Or do without.
http://www.jenesgems.com
If you bungle raising your children, I don’t think whatever else you do well matters very much. – Jacqueline Kennedy
The beauty of a life well-lived never dies… it continues to embrace and inspire us.
I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
“If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am only for myself, what am I? And if not now, when?” -Hillel
You must be the change you wish to see in the world. — Gandhi
Happiness is inward and not outward; and so it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are. ~Henry Van Dyke
Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship. -Dorothy Parker
“A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.” Coco Chanel
Do not meddle in the Affairs of Dragons for you are crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!
“When they placed you in my arms, you slipped into my heart.”
“Begin as you wish to continue!” ~ My Grandmother
“…I cannot express it; but surely you and everybody have a notion that there is or should be an existence of yours beyond you.” Cathy Earnshaw from Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
“Never eat more than you can lift”- Miss Piggy
“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.” – Douglas Adams
Life isn’t only about speed
“Chance favors the prepared life.” ~ Old Family Saying
What goes around comes around!
Not sure where I found this quote or who it was by but it found me when I desperately needed it:
“You have to choose to be bitter or better.” I remind myself of that quote when I need to take a step back and be positive.
“You can’t make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear!” ~ Jonathan Swift
“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.” — Dr. Seuss
The cure for anything is salt water – sweat, tears, or the sea. Isak Dinesen
“In acceptance lieth peace.”
Amy Carmichael
For every 60 seconds of anger, you lose one minute of happiness.
“All you need is love, but a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt” – Charles Shultz
Time Wounds All Heels…
Not sure who said it, but it’s funny.
“Work never killed anyone, but why take the chance?”
Ronald Reagan
“If we are well prepared, death brings no terror. From an eternal perspective, death is premature only for those who are not prepared to meet God.” – Elder Russell M. Nelson
“A life well-lived is a life well-given.” ~ St. Therese of Lisieux
It takes a mighty big dog to weigh a ton.
…like shootin’ fish in a tub (Papa English)
“Do not accept what you hear by report, do not accept tradition, do not accept a statement because it is found in our books, nor because it is in accord with your belief, nor because it is the saying of your teacher. Be lamps unto yourselves. Those who, either now or after I am dead, shall rely upon themselves only and not look for assistance to anyone besides themselves, it is they who shall reach the topmost height.” -Buddha
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I… I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. (Robert Frost )
“When we allow ourselves to feel ‘encircled about eternally in the arms of his love’ (2 Nephi 1:15), we feel safe, and we realize that we don’t need to be immediately perfect. We must acknowledge that perfection is a process. This is a gospel of eternal progress, and we must remember to appreciate the journey.” – Bonnie D. Parkin
“Work first, play second.” ~By Me!
Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Dogs come when you call, cats take a message and get back to you.
(? Just think it’s funny)
“Act pretty now.” My Grandma
My favorite quote may be a little risqué for some of you, but I love it none the less:
“Love is the answer, but while we are waiting for the answer, sex raises some very good questions.” — Woody Allen
“Gentlemen there is no fighting in the war room.” from the movie Dr. Strangelove
“My Dreams, watching me said, one to the other…this life has let us down” – anonymous
Do yourself a favor, before it is too late and without thinking about it too much at first, pack a pillow and a blanket and see as much of the world as you can. You will not regret it.
Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake
“One sure way to lose
another woman’s friendship
is to try to improve
her flower arrangements.”
Marcelene Cox
Alea iacta est.
It’s Latin for “The Die is Cast.”
“I hear your voice and I pay attention because I know it will be on the quiz later.”
– my husband to me one night
My dad’s favorite quote was always: “do ducks have lips?” He’s now deceased but I can still hear him say this!!
“If he is this way now, imagine the menace he will be at 14.” ~ By Me
The path of the righteous is like the first gleam of the morning sun, becoming ever brighter until the full light of day. Proverbs 4:18
“If you can’t stand the heat stay out of the kitchen” Harry S. Truman
“The good old days weren’t always good and tomorrow ain’t as bad as it seems.” – Billy Joel
The golden rule – “do unto others as you would have others do unto you”. That says it all!
“If you can’t be happy fat, you’ll never be happy thin!” ~ By Me
“It’s how you ride the trail that counts!”
Dale Evans
go big….or stay home
I think shy is boring, I think depressed is too. I think pretty is nice but I’d rather see something new. All these plastic people with their plastic surgery. I got a big, big beautiful and hey I got it for free. Ani DiFranco
You can pick your friends. You can pick your nose. But you can’t pick your friend’s nose.
Good is the enemy of great!
Grow old along with me….the best is yet to be.
Man plans, God laughs.
People at the top of the hill did not fall there.
Well-behaved women seldom make history.
There is no charge for awesomeness.
Kung-fu Panda
“Everything happens for a reason” and “you have to have bad times to appreciate the good times!”
Do not resent growing old. Many are denied the privilege. – Unknown
This world & then the Fire works! A quote from my Dad.
Nothing valuable was ever lost by taking time – Abraham Lincoln
It’s nice to be important, but it’s more important to be nice! 🙂
I have quite a few favorites, but this is a good one:
Why fool around with hamburger when you have steak at home? -Paul Newman
What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us. -Helen Keller
You can’t become the person you want to be, by remaining who you are.
I love ya like a chubby kid loves cake 🙂
~A great friend of mine
“Weekends don’t count unless you do something completely pointless.” -Calvin and Hobbes
They don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.
Be the change you wish to see in the world. Gandhi
Ignorance of the law is no excuse for breaking it.
When life hands you a lemon….make a margarita
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without loosing your enthusiasm.”
-Winston Churchill
I have had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn’t it. Groucho Marx
This too shall pass…
“keep on, keep on, keep on keepin’ on!” from The Brady Bunch 🙂
“Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for awhile and leave footprints on our hearts. And we are never, ever the same.” –author unknown
“Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It’s perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we’ve learnt something from yesterday.”
The inscription on John Wayne’s tombstone.
Lily at thesurpriselily.com
If you haven’t any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble. ~ Bob Hope
“It is whaat it is. Can’t help it, can’t change it.” Ronnie Gilbert – My husband
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. ~ Dalai Lama
“If you break it, then it is broken.” Ronnie Gilbert – My Husband
It is not the home that I love,
but the life that is lived there.
Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see. ~ Mark Twain
I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. Maya Angelou
It doesn’t take a genius to spot a goat in a flock of sheep. — an old weathered cowboy
Lily at thesurpriselily.com
“Stick a fork in me, I am DONE” my own quote, Janice Gutierrez
A person who has never owned a dog has missed a wonderful part of life. – Bob Barker
“Maybe a dingo ate your baby”
Meryl Streep in A cry in the Dark
If at first you don’t succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.
Set me adrift on a sea of hope, I’ll set my sail to a new horizon
You can shoot the tiger, or stay out of his way, but you cannot pronounce him a vegetarian. Richard Mitchell
Funny one, from the CW’s hit show, “Supernatural”– Driver picks the music, shotgun shuts his cakehole. And I do use this, LOL
There are three kinds of men: those that learn by reading, those that learn by watching, and those that just have to go ahead and pee on that electric fence. — cowboy wisdom
Lily at thesurpriselily.com
“Which is bigger, inches or square inches?”
–The “great” football announcer, John Madden
I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
Maya Angelou
All of the animals except for man know that the principle business of life is to enjoy it. – Samuel Butler
What goes around , comes around. It reminds me to treat people with kindness and respect.
People are about as happy as they make up their minds to be
Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole. – Roger Caras
This is true for all pets.
Life is too important to be taken seriously
“The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who’ll get me a book I ain’t read.”
– Abraham Lincoln
Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana.
Good is the enemy of great…David Foster
A sign with a quote I bought for my daughter for her house.
I Kiss Better than I Cook!
Happiness is a choice
“Many people have gone further than they imagined they could because somebody else thought they could.”
Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things. -Robert Brault
“If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always got”
Pastor Shelly Neel
Joy is better than worry any day
It may be that when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work and when we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our real journey.-Wendell Berry
The mind is a terrible thing to waste.
“If you bungle raising your children, I don’t think whatever else you do well matters very much.”
Jackie Kennedy Onassis
All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast. ~John Gunther
Carl Sandburg:
A baby is God’s opinion that the world should go on.
If you think you can, or you think you can’t, you’re right. Henry Ford
“Slump?!? I ain’t in no slump!! I just ain’t hittin’!” —Yogi Berra—
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
Plato
Always on my mind – forever in my heart.
‘Greater good?’ I am your wife! I am the greatest GOOD you are EVER gonna get!
-The Incredibles
Behold, I make all things new. -Rev. 21:5
The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved. (Mother Teresa)
“sitting in a cookie jar does not make you a cookie”
JSB
My own prescription for health is less paperwork and more running barefoot through the grass.” –Leslie Grimutter
Bloom where you are planted. ~unknown
Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. (RFK)
“Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.” — George Eliot
I do not understand the mystery of grace–only that it meets us where we are, but does not leave us where it found us. -Anne Lamott
If you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all.
“I never drink water. That is the stuff that rusts pipes.” W.C. Fields
Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature. (C.S. Lewis)
“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.” -J.K. Rowling.
Just because you got the monkey off your back, doesn’t mean the circus has left town. -unknown
“I am a believer in punctuality, though it makes me very lonely.” E.V. Lucas, English writer and publisher (1863-1938)
We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
Sam Keen, from To Love and Be Loved
A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers.
Man is never so tall as when he kneels before God — never so great as when he humbles himself before God. And the man who kneels to God can stand up to anything.
Louis H. Evans1
Isaiah 9:6-7 NLT
“Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted.” Albert Einstein
You don’t have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body. (C.S. Lewis)
I’m just a nobody tryin’ to tell everybody ’bout somebody that can save anybody -Denver Moore, Same Kind of Different as Me
If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on that tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality. (Desmond Tutu)
Be obscure clearly. (E. B. White)
put on your big girl panties and get over it.
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. (Galileo)
Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
–Rose Franken
Best love quote ever!
The heart has reasons that reason does not understand.
Seemed like a good idea at the time! – my husband.
“There is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so widespread, so commonly held, that it never occurs to you to question them.”
“Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet.”
“Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: “What! You too? I thought I was the only one.”
— C.S. Lewis
You can get glad in the same pants you got mad in.
“We are all pretty bizarre, some are just better at showing it.”
“We can see it in others, but we can’t see it on ourself” … my dad 🙂
“There are only two things a child will share willingly; communicable diseases and its mother’s age.”
~~Benjamin Spock
Nothing will drive you to prayer as quick as parenting (on a church sign somewhere in Steilacoom, Washington)
“We are not owners, we are only passing thru” – Robert Redford’s character in Out of Africa
um sorry … “We can see it in others, but we can’t see it IN ourself”
It’s better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick.
It’s not the destination, it’s the journey.
“You mess with the bull, you get the snot.” ~~ My oldest son, Sage
“Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music.”
A clean house is the sign of a misspent life.
The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and a ordinary woman and their ordinary children. – G.K Chesterton
“From now on, I’ll connect the dots my own way.” -Calvin & Hobbes
🙂
Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind~~~Dr. Seuss
“Remember who gives wet kisses, and the next time you see them, wave from across the room.”
from “Really Important Stuff my Kids Have Taught Me” by Cynthia L. Copeland
You know the world is going crazy when the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy, the tallest guy in the NBA is Chinese, the Swiss hold the America’s Cup, France is accusing the U.S. of arrogance and Germany doesn’t want to go to war.
You’ll have a lot more respect for a bird AFTER you try making a nest.
from “Really Important Stuff my Kids Have Taught Me” by Cynthia L. Copeland
Tell me who you go with and I’ll tell you what you are….my mother
There is no pit so deep that HE is not deeper still…
Betsey Ten Boom
The Hiding Place
Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.
-Benjamin Franklin
Sometimes, the squeaky wheel gets kicked.
from “Really Important Stuff my Kids Have Taught Me” by Cynthia L. Copeland
Handle every stressful situation like a dog.
If you can’t eat it or play with it,
Just pee on it and walk away. unknown
“I’d be Jewish if it wasn’t for bacon and Jesus.” – Mandy Smith (a college friend)
“Success is not final. Failure is not fatal. The courage to continue is what counts.” Winston Churchill
Hitting the kid with the ball might get you the ball, but it won’t get you anyone to throw it to.
from “Really Important Stuff my Kids Have Taught Me” by Cynthia L. Copeland
True love is neither physical or romantic. It is the acceptance of all that is, has been , or will never be.
Author unknown
“If ever there is tomorrow when we’re not together.. there is something you must always remember. you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. but the most important thing is, even if we’re apart.. I’ll always be with you.” Christoher Robbins
“It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn’t use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like “What about lunch?”
~Winnie The Pooh
“All you need to start an insane asylum is an empty room and the right kind of people.” — My Man Godfrey (movie)
It is poverty to think that a child must die so you may live as you wish.
Mother Teresa
“If ever there is tomorrow when we’re not together.. there is something you must always remember. you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. but the most important thing is, even if we’re apart.. i’ll always be with you.”
~ Winnie the Pooh
The LACK of money is the root of all evil.
“If the person you are talking to doesn’t appear to be listening, be patient. It may simply be that he has a small piece of fluff in his ear.”
~ Winnie the Pooh
“You can’t stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.”
~ Winnie the Pooh
Always be a little kinder than necessary for everyone is fighting some sort of battle.
James M. Barrie
You have to do your own growing, no matter how tall your daddy was.
I guess you can tell I love Winnie the Pooh quotes! Here is my last one….
“You can’t help respecting anybody who can spell TUESDAY, even if he doesn’t spell it right; but spelling isn’t everything. There are days when spelling Tuesday simply doesn’t count.”
~Winnie the Pooh
I am what I am and that’s all that I am.
popeye the sailor man
Raising teenagers is like trying to nail Jello to a wall – Jim Fay (I believe)
Of course you know, this means war.
Bugs Bunny
Do all the GOOD you can,
By all the means you can,
In all the ways you can,
in all the places you can
to all the people you can,
as long as ever you can.
John Wesley
“When nobody around you seems to measure up, it’s time to check your yardstick” – Carol Alexander
“If what you’re doing isn’t working, try something different.”
Greg Dean
Only you may write the definition of who you are!
He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.
Jim Elliot
So do not fear for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand. Isaiah 41:10
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman’s birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost
“My darling girl, when are you going to realize that being normal is not necessarily a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage!”
-the 1998 movie Practical magic!
“Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without.”
Mothers of teenagers know why animals eat their young.
Be the change you want to see in the world!
“Make the decision to love once, then manage that decision daily!” -Jill Chambers
What prayer can’t – worry won’t.
Good things happen when you meet strangers. Yo-Yo Ma
Marriages are made in heaven. But, again, so are thunder, lightning, tornadoes, and hail. 😉
Unknown
“love ya, love ya love ya” said in a low, growly voice and with a smile on her face, by my mom.
Unless the Lord builds a house, the work of the builders is useless.
Psalm 127:1 NLT
Anyone who tells a lie has not a pure heart, and cannot make a good soup.
~Ludwig van Beethoven
Rebecca Loudon
http://radishking.blogspot.com
Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.
How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you were?
Satchel Paige
“Nobody ever said it would be easy. They just promised it would be worth it.” -Dr Meredith Grey (Grey’s Anatomy) 🙂
“To die will be an awfully big adventure.” -J.M. Barrie
“Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.”
— Dr. Seuss
Today you are You, that is truer than true. Today there is no one who is Youer than You.
~Dr. Seuss in “Happy Birthday to You!”
I love the first “yo’ mama” quote:
“Villain, I’ve done thy mother!” -Shakespeare
Everyone always says to be yourself… like ‘yourself’ is this definite thing… like a toaster, or something.”
Angela Chase, My So-Called Life
I always tell my kids ………”Your lucky your cute!” Which I strongly believe God did that to us parents for a reason.
Here’s another
“Sometimes someone says something really small and it just fits right into this empty place in your heart.”
Angela Chase, My So-Called life
Sooooo, I have been told I can have a potty mouth & my favorite saying now on the cleaner side is “What the Sam Snead!??!!”
Be kind and merciful. Let no one ever come to you without coming away better and happier. Be the living expression of God’s kindness: kindness in your face, kindnes in your eyes, kindness in your smile, and kindness in your warm greeting.
Mother Teresa
“Listen to the mustn’ts, child. Listen to the don’ts. Listen to the shouldn’ts, the impossibles, the won’ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me… Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.”
-Shel Silvertsein
NOBODY BACKS BABY IN A CORNER! Dirty Dancing
Here’s some Dolly quotes:
I’m not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I’m not dumb… and I also know that I’m not blonde.
Dolly Parton
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.
Dolly Parton
Forget the former things;do not dwell on the past. See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up;do you not perceive it?
Isaiah 43 :18-19
“My momma used to say, Life is like a box of chocolates”
We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.
Dolly Parton
“The best love is the kind that awakens the soul; that makes us reach for more, that plants the fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds. That’s what I hope to give you forever.” The Notebook
And her signature quote:
It costs a lot of money to look this cheap!
Dolly Parton
Dang! I can’t believe I screwed up my favorite quote. Please chalk it up to old age and I hope you’ll delete or disregard my error. Thanks!
Here’s the correct quote:
“Today you are you, that is truer than true.
There is no one alive who is youer than you.”
~Dr. Seuss in “Happy Birthday to You!”
Doris (or Grammy Doris) dorisandpete@hotmail.com
“If you’re a woman, you’re supposed to be satisfied if you get the crumbs. I don’t want just the crumbs, I want the whole cake and I want the icing and everyone deserves the cake and the icing.”
Billy Jean King
It’s a Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood ~ Mister Rogers
I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
“Mom, did they have color back when you were a kid?” asked by my son, who thought the world was black and white (because that is what the tv shows from “back then”!!)
The ability to delude yourself may be an important survival tool.
Jane Wagner
May your life be like a roll of toilet paper, long and useful!
“Girls do what their mothers tell them. Ladies do what society tells them. Women make up their own minds.”
Karen Kijewski
“When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the one which has opened for us.”
Alexander Graham Bell
“Everything happens for a reason!”
Time is too slow for those who wait.
Too swift for those who fear.
Too long for those who grieve.
Too short for those who rejoice.
But for those who love, time is eternity.
Henry Van Dyke
Building boys is better than mending men.
Charles Spurgeon
“It’s not so much our fading youth we worry about as our fading future.”
Anne Graham Lotz
“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
When a problem comes around,you must flip it!
There is a very fine line between “hobby” and “mental illness”
Dave Barry
Go often to the house of they friend;for weeds soon choke up the unused path.
Scandinavian Proverb
“and the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk to blossom” – anias nin
The body is capable of most anything, its the mind you have to convince.
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
Make new friends, but keep the old.
One is silver, and the other gold.
(Old girl scout song)
“If the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.” – Abraham Maslow
Opportunities are usually disguised by hard work, so most people don’t recognize them.
— advice columnist Ann Landers
“Creativity is the Freedom From Fear” Tom Groth, my college advertising teacher.
“I won’t be wronged, I won’t be insulted, and I won’t be laid a hand on. I don’t do these things to other people and I expect the same from them. ” John Wayne
“Man plans; God laughs.”
….A wise Jewish quotation.
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. Old chinese saying.
“Don’t wait to make your son a great man – make him a great boy.” ~Author Unknown
I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
W.B.Yeats
My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. Achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others and that’s nice too, but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.”
actress Helen Hayes
A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika.
Dorothy Parker
I try to take one day at a time, but sometimes several days attack me at once.
– writer Jennifer Unlimited
“After all… tomorrow is another day.” – Scarlett O’Hara
“A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.” – Coco Chanel
“‘ll admit I may have seen better days, but I’m still not to be had for the price of a cocktail, like a salted peanut.” Bette Davis in All About Eve.
“If you can’t run, you walk. If you can’t walk, you crawl. If ypu can’t crawl, you find someone to carry you.” – the television show Firefly
Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice! Let your gentleness be evident to all. The Lord is near. Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
– Philippians 4:4-7
A wise man once said, “Learn to write your hurts in sand and Carve your blessings in stone.”
The only thing that separates us from the animals is our ability to accessorize.
Clairee Belcher, Steel Magnolias
‘I’ll give you a definite maybe’
Samuel Goldwyn
Thanks for letting us share. I love quotes, obviously. So finally:
I might repeat to myself, slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from the minds profound; if I can remember any of the damn things.
Dorothy Parker
Your mom.
“Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.”
—Dr. Seuss
The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea.
Isak Dinesen
Life is funny.
-a dear friend
We always have to laugh. If we don’t laugh, we’ll cry.
-coworker wisdom
Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.
-Saint Augustine
Confucius say, “He who fart in church sit in own pew.”
Honey, laughter through tears is my favorite emotion. Steel Magnolias
“To the world you are one person, but to one person you are the world.”
All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.
-Charles M. Schulz
Keep your nose clean (my grandmother used to say that all the time!) =)
The best is yet to be
Harry: I keep trying to die but they won’t let me.
Duke: Well, you can’t have everything.
The Notebook
Normality has become the nemesis of network news. –Spiro Agnew
The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.
– Oscar Wilde
My theory on housework is if the item doesn’t multiply, smell or catch fire or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one else cares. Why should you? Erma Bombeck
Good judgment comes from experience, experience comes from bad judgment. – author unknown.
The choices you make dictate the life you will lead.
“Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, champagne in one hand – strawberries in the other, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming “WOO HOO – What a Ride!”
That which does not kill you makes you stronger.
I’m all for progress as long as it doesn’t involve change.
By: An Unknown Person To Me
Screws fall out all the time, the world is an imperfect place.
“A word to the wise ain’t necessary — it’s the stupid ones that need the advice.”
– Bill Cosby
Count your many blessings, count them one by one.
Count your many blessings, see what God has done.
“As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.”
– John Fitzgerald Kennedy
We drink from wells we did not dig.
In order to keep a true perspective of one’s importance everyone should have a dog that will worship him and a cat that will ignore him.
Dereke Bruce
My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance. Anon
If you can’t feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
`Mother Teresa~
“Well behaved women rarely make history” – Marilyn Monroe
Life isn’t about how to survive the storm,
but how to dance in the rain.
Dogs have owners, cats have staff. Anon
“Wise men talk because they have something to say. Fools talk because they have to say something.”
– Plato
A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
~Benjamin Franklin
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
— Albert Einstein
“You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocket ship underpants don’t help.” Bill Watterson
I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a
love letter to the world.
Mother Teresa
“Inside all of us is a Wild Thing.”
– Maurice Sendak, Where the Wild Things Are
We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.
Mother Teresa
Life is to be enjoyed, not just endured. -Gordon B. Hinckley
In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love.
Mother Teresa
Dogs have owners, cats have staff. Warren Rubin
Sorry, I didn’t put the right source in first time round!
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.
-Albert Einstein
“One who understands much displays a greater simplicity of character than one who understands little.” – Alexander Chase
Never say more than is necessary.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Don’t believe all you hear, spend all you have, or sleep all you want.
“What in the sam hill are you doing, Walter?” Scout Finch
I’ll live while I am alive and sleep while I am dead.
If you tolerate it — you lose the right to complain about it! Rev Run
“If you judge people, you have no time to love them.” Mother Teresa
“Maycomb was an old town, but it was a tired old town when I first knew it. In rainy weather the streets turned to red slop, grass grew on the sidewalks, the courthouse sagged in the square. Somehow, it was hotter then: a black dog suffered on a summer’s day; bony mules hitched to Hoover carts flicked flies in the sweltering shade of the live oaks on the square. Men’s stiff collars wilted by nine in the morning. Ladies bathed before noon, after their three-o’clock naps, and by nightfall were like soft teacakes with frostings of sweat and sweet talcum.” Scout Finch
“Since you get more joy out of giving to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.” -Eleanor Roosevelt
“To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.” -Elbert Hubbard
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” Eleanor Roosevelt
“Miss Jean Louise, stand up. Your father’s passin’.” Reverend Sykes
You can’t make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear (from my Grandma).
“And o’er the hills and far away
Beyond their utmost purple rim
Beyond the night, across the day,
Through all the world she followed him.”
– Tennyson (1842)
money doesn’t grow from trees
“Atticus was right. One time he said you never really know a man until you stand in his shoes and walk around in them.” Scout Finch
Not only do I not know what’s going on, I wouldn’t know what to do about it if I did.
-George Carlin
I love this quote…..
Give us the clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand for, because unless we stand for something, we shall fall for anything.
Frank Morgan, Chaplain US Senate, 1947
Not all who wander are lost – Tolkien
All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing – Edmund Burke
I wake up every day determined to both change the world and have one hell of a good time. Sometimes this makes planning the day difficult. – E. B. White
Live life as though there is no tomorrow.
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” Margaret Mead
“It isn’t the great big pleasures that count the most;
it’s making a great deal out of the little ones.” – Jean Webster
I can’t pick just one. But fun to see others answer.
Don’t cry because it is over, smile because it happened.
Dr. Seuss.
All I’m after is a lifetime of laughter
“The street where they make all the money is broken” H. Funk, 8 yrs old.
“You gotta be tough if you’re gonna be stupid.”
(family friend)
Most of the favorite quotes I can think of are long. I’m long-winded (when I write), and I guess I like long-winded quotes:o) My very favorite is too long to put here, so I will link it. http://timshel.org/timshel.php
Usually I think of just that one word, timshel. Without context, it doesn’t mean anything, though, so you really have to read the passage. Or read the whole book and you’ll understand even more. If I ever get my tattoo, this one word will be somewhere in it.
P.S. Don’t enter me in the contest since I already have a cookbook. I just couldn’t resist leaving a comment.
“Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.”
-George Washington-
“The only way to get through life is to laugh your way through it. You either have to laugh or cry. I prefer to laugh. Crying gives me a headache.” Marjorie Pay Hinkley
Fairy tales are more than true; not because they tell us dragons exist, but ecause they tell us dragons can be beaten. C.K. Chesterton
Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That’s a gift that you have received from God. Don’t waste it. – Laura Ingalls Wilder
“What we have here is a failure to communicate,” from Cool Hand Luke
“I went into the woods because I wanted to live deliberately. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life … to put to root all that was not life; and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.”
—Henry David Thoreau
Despite the high cost of living these days, it is still quite popular.
~anonymous
“Don’t feel sorry for me, baby” from the movie Last Holiday
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?
She is too fond of books, and it has addled her brain.
Louisa May Alcott
All the things I really like to do are either immoral, illegal, or fattening.
— Alexander Woollcott
If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought.–Peace Pilgrim
Work like you don’t need the money,
Sing as if no one can hear you,
Dance like no one is watching,
Live as though it is heaven on earth.
“what ever you are, be a good one” A.Lincoln
“It’s never too late to live happily ever after.”
If you can’t climb the tree by yourself, you don’t need to be climbing it.
(said to my kids when they were small
“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us”- Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Good for the body is the work of the body, and good for the soul is the work of the soul, and good for either is the work of the other. ~Henry David Thoreau
We don’t stop laughing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop laughing. – Michael Pritchard
“Keepin’ it real!”
-Ree Drummond, aka: The Pioneer Woman
“I don’t make the news, I just report it!”
-Ree Drummond, PW
Don’t squat with your spurs on.
“O you who love clear edges more than anything, watch the edges that blur.” -Adrienne Rich
To live is to suffer. But to survive…. well, that’s to find meaning in the suffering.
Regrets are for those that haven’t learned anything in life.
It’s hard to be humble when you’re as great as I am.
Muhammad Ali
“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you’ve imagined.” – Henry David Thoreau
I’ve never seen a purple cow and hope to never see one, but I can tell you, anyhow, I’d rather see than be one.
-Anonymous
Life is short so break the rules and forgive quickly, kiss slowly, love truly, laugh uncontrollably, and never regret anything that made you smile. (Author unknown)
Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.~unknown
Jump squarly into the swirl of life. SARK
It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us. It is easier to give a cup of rice to relieve hunger than to relieve the loneliness and pain of someone unloved in our own home. Bring love into your home for this is where our love for each other must start.~ Mother Teresa
Love Wins. ~Mars Hill Bible Church
Home is the place where, when you go there, they have to take you in.” – Robert Frost
“The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.” – E.E. Cummings
Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend.
Inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read.
-Groucho Marx
“This tastes like NOTHING!!”
– What my nephew said after tasting regular oatmeal instead of the brown sugar oatmeal that he’s used to. –
“Just remember, girlie: You can slide ’em a lot further on bullcrap than you can on sandpaper.”
History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.” – Maya Angelou
You do the best with what you know and when you know more, you do better.
Sorry I don’t know who to attribute that to.
“God helps those who help themselves.”
Ignorance is bliss.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. Eleanor Roosevelt
“It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.” – Harry S. Truman
It’s nice to be important, but it’s more important to be nice.
What would you do if you knew you could not fail?
“Two roads diverged in a wood and I —
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.” ~Robert Frost~
“Sexier than socks on a rooster”
Very common quote here in mid Tennessee
“Finer than frog hair”
“It is finished.” -Jesus Christ
“May your life be crowded with unexpected joys.” – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
“The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.” ~St. Augustine~
Success is a ladder you cannot climb with your hands in your pockets. ~American Proverb
There are no stupid questions, just stupid people.
“Eat food, not too much, mostly plants.” -Michael Pollan
I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage.
-Erma Bombeck
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else.
Where there is love there is life.
“I am gonna send you to the moon”
The truth is more important than the facts.
Love all, trust a few.
Dinner is ready when the fire alarm goes off.
A witty saying proves nothing.
“Whether you think you can or can’t, you’re right.” Randy Pausch
Tell me who you love and I will tell you who you are
-Houssaye.
One may tolerate a world of demons for the sake of an angel.
-Doctor Who (cult British sci-fi series)
Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
~Elbert Hubbard
The hardest thing in this world is to live in it.
– Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
ohhh, this is the other side of that!!!
“That which does not kill you is your life. Deal with it.” from my mother
“you do not have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body.” C.S. Lewis
“Laughter is the best medicine”
“I’m so glad they found each other – it kept two other people from being so miserable”
Debbie Shea
Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you are absolutely right!
If you can’t say anything good about anybody don’t say anything at all!
Courage is grace under pressure.
And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years. – Abraham Lincoln
Every crow thinks hers is the blackest.
The only thing that separates us from the animals is our ability to accessorize.
Liquor talks loud when it gets out of the bottle.
Never mistake endurance for hospitality.
cleaning up after children is like stringing beads without a knot on the end
As someone once wisely pointed out, the person you will spend most of the rest of your life with is yourself, and therefore, you owe it to yourself to become as interesting as possible.
Every man is the architect of his own fate.
“You just can’t fix stupid.”
Words to live by, in my opinion!
“Face It Girls, I’m Older And I Have More Insurance” Fried Green Tomatoes
If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change. – Buddha
“Towanda” Fried Green Tomatoes
Well-behaved women rarely make history.
That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet. – Emily Dickinson
You don’t get to choose how you’re going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you’re going to live. Now. – Joan Baez
Alice Roosevelt really did say “if you can’t say something nice about someone, come over and sit by me.”
The only way to get through life is to laugh your way through it. You either have to laugh or cry. I prefer to laugh. Crying gives me a headache. -Marjorie Pay Hinckley
Never kick a fresh turd on a hot day.
My quote: “We each create our own reality.”
Luna Chris
If you live in a glass house, dont throw rocks.
(Caught looking at a sexy man, she said.)
“I might be married, but I ain’t dead yet!”
~Dolly Parton
In a universe of ambiguity, this kind of certainty comes only once, and never again, no matter how many lifetimes you live.
The Bridges of Madison County
“All great change in America begins at the dinner table.” — Ronald Reagan
“And time stands still when no one understands you When you don’t quite understand yourself But just know this that God is faithful Even if you don’t have faith yourself ” -MxPx (Tomorrows Another Day)
Believe half of what you see and none of what ya hear.
food is essential to life; therefore make it good – truett cathy
“Experience is what you get when you didn’t get what you wanted” Randy Pausch (1960-2008)
“It’s only when the tide goes out that you learn who has been swimming naked” Warren Buffet
“In a conversation, remember that you’re more interested in what you’re trying to say than anyone else is” Andy Rooney
“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
“If you have everything under control, you’re not going fast enough” Mario Andretti
“It is never too late to be what you might have been.” George Eliot
“Ask often, demand nothing, and reward generously” – Dona Sherman.
My horsetraining mentor. I love her. It applies for all of life as well!
“Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.” Leo Buscaglia
You don’t quit playing cuz you get old…you get old cuz you quit playing~Red Steagall
“If you love someone you say it, you say it right then, out loud. Otherwise the moment just passes you by…” -My Best Friends Wedding
“Everything is always ok in the the end. If it’s not ok, then it isn’t the end.”
“To thine own self be true.” -Shakespeare
“Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.”- Cecil Beaton
“If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun.” – Katharine Hepburn
Joy, my love, joy in all things,
in what falls and what flourishes.
Joy in today and yesterday,
the day before and tomorrow.
Joy in bread and stone,
joy in fire and rain.
In what changes, is born, grows,
consumes itself, and becomes a kiss again.
Joy in the air we have,
and in what we have of earth.
~”So Much Happens in a Day” trans. Alastair Reid
“I’m your huckleberry” Doc Holiday – Tombstone
Do what you have to do, so you can do what you want to do!
I am not 40 something. I’m 39.95 plus shipping and handling.
Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. And today? Today is a gift. That’s why we call it the present. ~Babatunde Olatunji
A person who won’t read has no advantage over one who can’t read.
Mark Twain
“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.”
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Every day is a good day. Some are better than others.” Ralph K. Manly
“It is not your aptitude, but rather your attitude that will determine your altitude.”
Life without love is like a tree without a blossom or fruit. ~Kahlil Gibran
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
“I’m not dumb. I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.”–Calvin (Bill Watterson)
“Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.” -Oprah Winfrey
“You get a strange feeling when you’re about to leave a place, like you’ll not only miss the people you love but you’ll miss the person you are now at this time and this place, because you’ll never be this way again.” -Azar Nafisi
“Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.” -Elizabeth Stone
I already have been blessed with a copy of PW’s but I guess another would make for a happy friend this Christmas. Here goes…
“Well! I’m actually feeling rather good about this. I think we all arrived at a very special place eh? Spiritually. Ecumenically. Grammatically.” ~ Jack Sparrow
If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
–Mother Teresa
“Love your neighbor as yourself”
“As you wish”
Westley to Buttercup, The Princess Bride
“What were you thinking???”
My mom to her husband when he dropped the camera. FYI, his response is quote-worthy as well: “I was thinking I wished I hadn’t dropped the camera.”
The world has not ended yet because it is tomorrow in New Zealand.
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.[Plato]
“You can’t handle the truth” from A Few Good Men
You made your bed now lie in it, ~~from my grandmother
All things are possible…