Toni's Quotable Sunday!

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My quotes today are on warm weather... or heat! Cause its almost 90 degrees today and I am remembering how much I do not like Summer... but I am taking what I can from this day... its not as hot as it could be!

"At the entrance, my bare feet on the dirt floor, Here, gusts of heat; at my back, white clouds. I stare and stare. It seems I was called for this: To glorify things just because they are."
~ Czeslaw Milosz

"Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability."
~ Sam Keen

"Summer is a promissory note signed in June, its long days spent and gone before you know it, and due to be repaid next January."
~ Hal Borland

"Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass on a summer day listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is hardly a waste of time."
~ John Lubbock

"The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco." ~Author unknown, commonly misattributed to Mark Twain

"Summer is the time when one sheds one's tensions with one's clothes, and the right kind of day is jeweled balm for the battered spirit. A few of those days and you can become drunk with the belief that all's right with the world." ~Ada Louise Huxtable

Quotable Sunday!

Time for Toni's Quoteable Sundays! I love this and participate every week. If you want to participate then do your own, head to Toni's site and sign her Mr. Linky and visit as many others as you can!

Today my quotes are on Childhood... since *to me* Easter is about Spring, joy, and the innocence of childhood. Its so hard to believe that we all used to believe in the Easter Bunny!

"There is a garden in every childhood, an enchanted place where colors are brighter, the air softer, and the morning more fragrant than ever again." ~Elizabeth Lawrence

"Sweet childish days, that were as long
As twenty days are now."
~William Wordsworth, "To a Butterfly"

"There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in." ~Deepak Chopra

"If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older." ~Tom Stoppard

"Old age lives minutes slowly, hours quickly; childhood chews hours and swallows minutes." ~Malcolm de Chazal

"If I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the christening of all children, I should ask that her gift to each child in the world be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life."

"If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in." ~ Rachel Carson

"Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see." ~
~ John W. Whitehead

Have a wonderful Easter!

Quotable Sunday!

Time for Toni's Quoteable Sundays! I love this and participate every week. If you want to participate then do your own, head to Toni's site and sign her Mr. Linky and visit as many others as you can!

My quotes today will be on intelligence.

"Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us." ~ Bill Watterson (1958 - ), cartoonist, "Calvin and Hobbes"

"Readers are plentiful; thinkers are rare." ~ Harriet Martineau (1802 - 1876)

"To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains." ~ Mary Pettibone Poole, A Glass Eye at a Keyhole, 1938

"Perhaps imagination is only intelligence having fun." ~George Scialabra

"Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence." ~ Albert Einstein

"The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." ~ Bertrand Russell

"Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without education. Education enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence." ~ Albert Edward Wiggin

"The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination." ~ Albert Einstein

"Wit is educated insolence." ~ Aristotle

Quotable Sunday!

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Mine are on Spring... since its been almost 80 degrees and sunny here!

"Spring makes its own statement, so loud and clear that the gardener seems to be only one of the instruments, not the composer." ~Geoffrey B. Charlesworth

"It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade." ~Charles Dickens

"It's spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you've got it, you want - oh, you don't quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so!" ~Mark Twain

"If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome." ~Anne Bradstreet

"And Spring arose on the garden fair,
Like the Spirit of Love felt everywhere;
And each flower and herb on Earth's dark breast
rose from the dreams of its wintry rest."
~Percy Bysshe Shelley, "The Sensitive Plant"

"Is it so small a thing To have enjoy'd the sun, To have lived light in the spring, To have loved, to have thought, to have done..."
-- Matthew Arnold

"Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart."
-- Victor Hugo

"Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems." ~Rainer Maria Rilke

Quotable Sunday!

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Mine are on Motherhood... since my mom is visiting me this weekend!


"The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new." ~Rajneesh

"I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life." ~Abraham Lincoln

"Some mothers are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together." ~Pearl S. Buck

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness. ~Honoré de Balzac

"All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." ~Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest, 1895

"She never quite leaves her children at home, even when she doesn't take them along." ~Margaret Culkin Banning

"Every beetle is a gazelle in the eyes of its mother." ~Moorish Proverb

"A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest." ~Irish Proverb

"A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother." ~Author Unknown

Quotable Sunday!

Time for Toni's Quoteable Sundays! I love this and participate every week. If you want to participate then do your own, head to Toni's site and sign her Mr. Linky and visit as many others as you can!

Sorry mine are a little on the down side... Ive been feeling a bit down and having a hard time with our problems lately. So Adversity quotes for me this week. I promise I will perk up soon!

"Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional." ~M. Kathleen Casey

"If you're going through hell, keep going." ~Winston Churchill

"The healthy and strong individual is the one who asks for help when he needs it. Whether he's got an abscess on his knee or in his soul." ~Rona Barrett

"When it is dark enough, you can see the stars." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The difficulties of life are intended to make us better, not bitter." ~Author Unknown

"Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light." ~ Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (movie)

"Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are." ~Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

"Problems are only opportunities with thorns on them." ~Hugh Miller, Snow on the Wind

I need to remember this:

"Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes, and adversity is not without comforts and hopes." ~Francis Bacon

Quotable Sunday!

Time for another edition of Toni's quoteable Sunday. Do your own, then head on over and sign her Mr. Linky and visit the other participants!

Mine focuses on Integrity.

"If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don't have integrity, nothing else matters." ~Alan Simpson

"Fortune does not change men; it unmasks them." ~Suzanne Necker

'Tis better to suffer wrong than do it." ~Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732

“Integrity is doing the right thing, even if nobody is watching.”

“Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.” Spencer Johnson


“Never separate the life you live from the words you speak.” Paul Wellstone


"Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity."
W. Clement Stone

"Live so that when your children think of fairness and integrity, they think of you."
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

"Your life may be the only Bible some people read." ~Author Unknown

Quotable Sunday!

Another version of Toni's Quoteable Sunday... Today its about love... for Valentines Day!



Love is everything it's cracked up to be…It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
Erica Jong,

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)

Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.
Jean Anouilh (1910 - 1987)

“Love is just a word until someone comes along and gives it meaning.”

“To the world you may be just one person, but to one person you may be the world.”
Brandi Snyder

“We cannot do great things on this Earth, only small things with great love.”
Mother Teresa


My favorite Sonnet by Shakespeare

Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O, no! it is an ever-fixed mark,
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come;
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.

Quoteable Sunday!

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Mine is on sleep...slumber... cause after my fun but sleepless weekend at my sisters... that's all I want!

“Night has brought to those who sleep, only dreams they can not keep.”
~Enya~

"People who say they sleep like a baby usually don't have one." ~Leo J. Burke

"The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late." ~Charles Caleb Colton

"A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow." ~Charlotte Brontë

"There are twelve hours in the day, and above fifty in the night." ~Marie de Rabutin-Chantal

LOL! This is how I felt last night:
“Sleep is like the unicorn - it is rumored to exist, but I doubt I will see any”

I hope I can go to bed early tonight... Sweet dreams!

Quotable Sunday

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I am doing mine today on Conformity... I don't believe in conforming to anyone's idea of what I should be... I live by my own rules...

"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

"Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson


"Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary." ~Albert Einstein

"You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life." ~Winston Churchill

"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself." ~Friedrich Nietzsche

"One who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints." ~Proverb

"How glorious it is - and also how painful - to be an exception." ~Alfred de Musset

"You laugh at me because I am different; I laugh because you are all the same." ~Daniel Knode

"The reward for conformity was that everyone liked you except yourself." ~Rita Mae Brown

Quotable Sunday!

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Mine today focuses on cats... the most beautiful, graceful and enigmatic animals on earth... I also happen to love my cats more than they deserve!!! LOL But cats have a quality about them, you cannot describe it, or deny it, or resist it... thats why the ancient Egyptians worshiped them as I do.

"Of all God's creatures, there is only one that cannot be made slave of the leash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve the man, but it would deteriorate the cat." - Mark Twain

"I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior." - Hippolyte Taine

"Thousands of years ago, cats were worshipped as gods. Cats have never forgotten this." - Anonymous

"One must love a cat on its own terms."- Paul Gray

I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul. - Jean Cocteau

Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a purpose. - Garrison Keillor

"Who can believe that there is no soul behind those luminous eyes!" - Theophile Gautier


"People who hate cats, will come back as mice in their next life." - Faith Resnick

"The furry little buggers [cats] are just deep, deep wells you throw your emotions into." - Bruce Schimmel


The smallest feline is a masterpiece. - Leonardo da Vinci

Quoteable Sunday!

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Since my son just turned 4 I am doing this Sunday's quotes on Motherhood.

“It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.”
~Erma Bombeck~

“When a woman is twenty, a child deforms her; when she is thirty, he preserves her; and when forty, he makes her young again.”
~Leon Blum~

How true! I am 40 and I can agree with this statement.

"Making the decision to have a child-it's momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body."

"To understand a mother's love, bear your own children."

“Birth is not only about making babies. Birth is about making mothers ~ strong, competent, capable mothers who trust themselves and know their inner strength.”
~Barbara Katz Rothman~

"There is none, In all this cold and hollow world, no fount Of deep, strong, deathless love, save that within A mother's heart."
~ Mrs. Felicia D. Hemans~

"All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his."
~Oscar Wilde~

This scares me.

Quoteable Sunday!

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My quotes are focusing on beginnings for the new year and the new beginning I hope to have!

~ There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning. ~
~ Louis L'Amour

~ Whatever you do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius and power and magic in it. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

~ We have it in our power to begin the world over again. ~
~ Thomas Paine

~ Every beginning is a consequence - every beginning ends some thing. ~
~ Paul Valery

~ Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success. ~
~ Henry Ford

~ Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending. ~
~ Carl Bard


I have high hopes for this year... I feel like its the beginning of a new era in our world, in my life... I hope to have better year, or if I face hurdles and difficulties... I hope I learn many lessons that I take with me to make my life better now, and in the future.

Toni's Quotable Sunday!

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Mine today focus on endings...since the year is coming to an end...

“In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”
Martin Luther King, Jr. quotes (American Baptist Minister and Civil-Rights Leader. 1929-1968)

"I existed from all eternity and, behold, I am here; and I shall exist till the end of time, for my being has no end."
Khalil Gibran

“It's weird...you know the end of something great is coming, but you want to hold on, just for one more second...just so it can hurt a little more.”

“In my end is my beginning.”
~ T.S. Eliot

"All's well that ends well; still the fine's the crown. Whate'er the course, the end is the renown."
William Shakespeare

"The opera isn't over till the fat lady sings."
Dan Cook

LOL, I am singing now!

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