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Quote of the Day 4-27-12

daryl — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 23:53:44 +0000

“Can I quit my job and do nothing all day long, I seem to be more productive that way”

by Mike Kracow R.I.P.

daryl

Quotes of the Week 4-2-12

daryl — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 22:03:59 +0000

Parenting quotations:
~ You don’t really understand human nature unless you know why a child on a merrygo- round will wave at his parents every time around – and why his parents will always wave back. – William D. Tammeus
~ 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
~ Always kiss your children goodnight – even if they’re already asleep. ~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
~ When you have brought up kids, there are memories you store directly in your tear ducts. ~Robert Brault
~ Parenthood: That state of being better chaperoned than you were before marriage. ~Marcelene Cox
~ Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children, and no theories. ~John Wilmot
~ To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while. ~Josh Billings
~ Your children need your presence more than your presents. ~Jesse Jackson

daryl

Quotations about forgiveness

daryl — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 22:43:35 +0000

~ “Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.” — Oscar Wilde
~ “Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself.” — Ausonius
~ “Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.” — Indira Gandhi
~ “Forgive, son; men are men; they needs must err.” — Euripides
~ “Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting.” — William Arthur Ward
~ “Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.” — Mark Twain
~ “People can be more forgiving than you can imagine. But you have to forgive yourself. Let go of what’s bitter and move on.” — Bill Cosby
~ “The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.” — Mahatma Gandhi
~ “To err is human; to forgive, divine.” — Alexander Pope
~ “It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.” — William Blake

daryl

Abraham Lincoln quotations

daryl — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 13:42:56 +0000

Abraham Lincoln quotations:
~ “A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.”
~ “Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable – a most sacred right – a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.”
~ “You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.”
~ “I will prepare and some day my chance will come.”
~ “I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.”
~ “A house divided against itself cannot stand.”
~ “If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.”
~ “If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.”

daryl

Quotes Of The Week — Quotations about Hawaii

Joanne Lewis — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 00:44:07 +0000

~ “The Hula is the heartbeat of the Hawaiian People.” — David Kalakaua
~ “If you don’t have at least a working knowledge of the Hawaiian language… you can’t chant well. You cannot… receive the images of poetry paints for you. It’s like having peas and no pod.” — Keali’i Reichel
~ “Cry for the gods, cry for the people/ Cry for the land that was taken away/And then yet you’ll find, Hawai’i.” — Mickey Ioane
~ “It is really so nice here—country—busy—busy with so many different kinds of things—… I must say I feel far away in another world here—… always we go to a new place…the people have a kind of gentleness that isn’t usual on the mainland.” — Georgia O’Keefe
~ “The Islands were born in fire, far from human eyes.” — Rita Ariyoshi
~ “In my nostrils still lives the breath of flowers that perished twenty years ago.” — Mark Twain
~ “Malama Kekahi i kekahi. Take care of each other.” — Hawaiian Kupuna Wisdom

Joanne Lewis

Quotes Of The Week Christmas

daryl — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 20:37:43 +0000

Quotations about Christmas:
“Christmas makes me happy no matter what time of year it comes around.” — Bryan White
“The main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live.” — George Carlin
“Once again, we come to the Holiday Season, a deeply religious time that each of us observes, in his own way, by going to the mall of his choice.” — Dave Barry
“Mail your packages early so the post office can lose them in time for Christmas.” — Johnny Carson
“Let’s be naughty and save Santa the trip.” — Gary Allan
“Nothing says holidays, like a cheese log.” — Ellen DeGeneres
“That’s the true spirit of Christmas; people being helped by people other than me.” — Jerry Seinfeld
“I once bought my kids a set of batteries for Christmas with a note on it saying, toys not included.” — Bernard Manning
“Handmade presents are scary because they reveal that you have too much free time.” — Doug Coupland
“There are some people who want to throw their arms round you simply because it is Christmas; there are other people who want to strangle you simply because it is Christmas.” — Robert Lynd

daryl

Quotes Of The Week 12-12-11

daryl — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 19:59:39 +0000

Quotations about home:
~ “When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.” — Winston Churchill
~ “Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do… but how much love we put in that action.” — Mother Teresa
~ “A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.” — Benjamin Franklin
~ “The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.” — Confucius
~ “I believe that being successful means having a balance of success stories across the many areas of your life. You can’t truly be considered successful in your business life if your home life is in shambles.” — Zig Ziglar
~ “Having leveled my palace, don’t erect a hovel and complacently admire your own charity in giving me that for a home.” — Emily Bronte
~ “There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.” — Dwight D. Eisenhower
~ “Where thou art, that is home.” — Emily Dickinson
~ “He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
~ “Strength of character may be learned at work, but beauty of character is learned at home.” — Henry Drummond

daryl

Quotes Of The Week 11-28-11

daryl — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 18:12:26 +0000

Quotations about memories:
~ “A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen.” — Edward de Bono
~ “Pleasure is the flower that passes; remembrance, the lasting perfume.” — Jean de Boufflers
~ “Every man’s memory is his private literature.” — Aldous Huxley
~ “I have memories – but only a fool stores his past in the future.” — David Gerrold
~ “We do not remember days; we remember moments.” — Cesare Pavese
~ “The past is never dead, it is not even past.” — William Faulkner
~ “There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory.” — Josh Billings
~ “Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember.” — Seneca
~ “Memory… is the diary that we all carry about with us.” — Oscar Wilde (“The Importance of Being Earnest”)
~ “The existence of forgetting has never been proved: We only know that some things don’t come to mind when we want them.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

daryl

Quotes Of The Week 11-14-11

daryl — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 18:57:45 +0000

Homer Quoations (Greek epic poet, 800 BC to 700 BC, known as “Mr Iliad”):
~ “I detest that man who hides one thing in the depths of his heart, and speaks for another.”
~ “A generation of men is like a generation of leaves; the wind scatters some leaves upon the ground, while others the burgeoning wood brings forth – and the season of spring comes on. So of men one generation springs forth and another ceases.”
~ “Once harm has been done, even a fool understands it.”
~ “There is a strength in the union even of very sorry men.”
~ “Young men’s minds are always changeable, but when an old man is concerned in a matter, he looks both before and after.”
~ “Zeus does not bring all men’s plans to fulfillment.”
~ “The gods, likening themselves to all kinds of strangers, go in various disguises from city to city, observing the wrongdoing and the righteousness of men.”
~ “There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.”
~ “You ought not to practice childish ways, since you are no longer that age.”
~ “And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.”
~ “The charity that is a trifle to us can be precious to others.”
~ “Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other’s good, and melt at other’s woe.”

daryl

Quote of the Week 10-20-11

daryl — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 22:01:43 +0000

I have the key to my head, all I have to do is find the lock.

by anonymous