Quotes

October 12, 2011
Girl you got me running on sunshine...
Ain't no clouds getting in my way
No doubt, no doubt about it
And there ain't no clouds in my sky
You got me running on sunshine....
- Jesus Jackson 

September 24, 2011
I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore. . . I hear it in the deep heart's core.
- William Butler Yeats 

September 15, 2011
There is a harmony in autumn, and a luster in its sky, which through the summer is not heard or seen, as if it could not be, as if it had not been!
- Percy Bysshe Shelley 

August 13, 2011
One of the deep secrets of life is that all that is really worth doing is what we do for others.
- Lewis Carroll 

August 13, 2011
Splish Splash, I was takin' a bath...Long about a saturday night...
- Bobby Darrin 

July 24, 2011
Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.
- Emily Dickinson 

July 13, 2011
Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information on it.
- Samuel Johnson 

July 7, 2011
Are you my mother?
- P.D. Eastmanjavascript:void(0) 

July 5, 2011
My sunshine doesn’t come from the skies, it comes from the love in my dogs eyes.
- Author Unknown 

July 3, 2011
The mountains are calling and I must go.
- John Muir 

July 1, 2011
What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance.
- Jane Austen 

June 25, 2011
The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
-Henry David Thoreau 

June 23, 2011
The belly rules the mind.
- Spanish proverb 

June 13, 2011
No matter how dark the moment, love and hope are always possible.
- George Chakiris 

April 25, 2011
As you stopped to say hello, oh, you wished me well, you couldn't tell that I'd been crying over you.
- Roy Orbison (Cryin') 

March 22, 2011
Continuity gives us roots; change gives us branches, letting us stretch and grow and reach new heights.
- Pauline R. Kezer 

March 20, 2011
A hard beginning maketh a good ending.
- John Heywood 

March 17, 2011
Anyone who says sunshine brings happiness has never danced in the rain.
- Author Unknown 

March 15, 2011
We do what we must, and call it by the best names.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson 

March 12, 2011
Sweet like candy to my soul, Sweet you rock and sweet you roll...
- "Crash Into Me" by Dave Matthews Band 

March 10, 2011
Too much youth, hunger, mission and talent.

March 7, 2011
I believe the world to be a muffin pan, and there certainly are a lot of muffins here.
- Aaron Funk 

March 1, 2011
i carry your heart with me (i carry it in my heart)
- e.e. cummings 

February 24, 2011
Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet.
- Roger Miller 

February 17, 2011
God created boys, full of spirit and fun to explore and conquer, to romp and run.
- Author Unknown 

February 16, 2011
Think what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about three o'clock every afternoon and then lay down on our blankets for a nap.
- Barbara Jordan 

February 6, 2011
Who would ever think that so much went on in the soul of a young girl?
- Anne Frank 

February 5, 2011
A hush is over everything, Silent as women wait for love; The world is waiting for the spring.
- Sara Teasdale 

February 2, 2011
Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn and you will.
- Vernon Howard 

January 31, 2011
(On what her longevity is attributed to)...Red meat and gin.
- Julia Child 

January 30, 2011
A list is only as strong as its weakest link.
- Donald Knuth 

January 22, 2011
When you know better you do better.
- Maya Angelou 

January 5, 2011
There are no rules in fights with girls. Just hurting.
- Suzanne Vega 

January 1, 2011
Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. And today? Today is a gift. That's why we call it the present.
- Babatunde Olatunjin 

December 29, 2010
You don't take a photograph. You ask, quietly, to borrow it.
- Author Unknown 

December 27, 2010
Give me the old familiar walk, postoffice and all, with this ever new self, with this infinite expectation and faith, which does not know when it is beaten. We'll go nutting once more. We'll pluck the nut of the world, and crack it in the winter evenings. Theaters and all other sightseeing are puppet-shows in comparison. I will take another walk to the Cliff, another row on the river, another skate on the meadow, be out in the first snow, and associate with the winter birds. Here I am at home. In the bare and bleached crust of the earth I recognize my friend.
- Henry D. Thoreau [Walden Woods; Journal; 1 November 1858] 

December 20, 2010
If worms carried pistols, birds wouldn't eat 'em.
- Darrell Royal 

December 19, 2010
One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish
- Dr. Seuss 

December 18, 2010
The heart makes its choices without weighing the consequences.
- Tess Gerritsen 

December 9, 2010
If you walk, just walk. If you sit, just sit. But whatever you do, don’t wobble.
- Author Unknown 

December 8, 2010
A photograph is memory in the raw.
- Carrie Latet 

December 7, 2010
That's my darling Luke. He grins like a baby but bites like a gator.
- George Kennedy (Cool Hand Luke)

December 6, 2010
Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather. - John Ruskin 

December 5, 2010
Follow your honest convictions and be strong.
- William Makepeace Thackeray 

December 4, 2010
Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember.
- Seneca 

December 3, 2010
In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.
- John Muir 

December 2, 2010
A bargain ain't a bargain unless it's something you need.
- Sidney Carroll 

December 1, 2010
It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.
- William Carlos Williams 

November 30, 2010
Marketing is what you do when your product is no good.
- Edwin Land 

November 29, 2010
Although we have come to accept commercial foods as being normal or natural ways to feed animals (and indeed ourselves), in fact they are not. They are simply what we've gotten used to in the last few decades. But nothing we can produce commercially ever can rival those mysteriously complex foods manufactured for eons by nature itself.
- Richard Pitcairn, DVM 

November 28, 2010
All we can do is be better prepared today than yesterday and better prepared tomorrow than today.
- James Howell 

November 27, 2010
Thank you Ashley Whippet - The Greatest Frisbee Dog Ever
- http://www.ashleywhippet.com/history.html 

November 26, 2010
The winner is the chef who takes the same ingredients as everyone else and produces the best results.
- Edward de Bono 

November 25, 2010
Happy Thanksgiving! (No post today!) 

November 24, 2010
The third day comes a frost, a killing frost.
- William Shakespeare (Henry VIII) 

November 23, 2010
We give thanks for unknown blessings already on their way.
- Author Unknown 

November 22, 2010
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.
- Les Brown 

November 21, 2010
Play is the highest form of research.
- Albert Einstein 

November 20, 2010
Talk less of days to come. Live, love, labor more today.
- Alice Cary 

November 19, 2010
It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.
- Attributed to Harry S. Truman 

November 18, 2010
It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.
- Douglas Adams 

November 17, 2010
The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.
- Pierre Corneille 

November 16, 2010
No, snakes are no problem. I'd go to any country, anywhere, any snakes, not a problem.
- Steve Irwin 

November 15, 2010
A local company has more accountability.
- Paul Hawken 

November 14, 2010
Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.
- Roger Caras 

November 13, 2010
Everyone is the age of their heart.
- Guatemalan Proverb 

November 12, 2010
Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.
- Robert Frost 

November 11, 2010
The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.
- William Morris 

November 10, 2010
The difference between men and boys is the price of their toys.
- Proverb 

November 9, 2010
Patience is the companion of wisdom.
- Saint Augustine 

November 8, 2010
Food safety involves everybody in the food chain.
- Mike Johanns 

November 7, 2010
There are some simple truths and the dogs know what they are.
- Joseph Duemer 

November 6, 2010
To me, if life boils down to one thing, it's movement. To live is to keep moving.
- Jerry Seinfeld 

November 5, 2010
Ever absent, ever near;
Still I see thee, still I hear;
Yet I cannot reach thee, dear!
- Francis Kazinczy 

November 4, 2010
The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.
- Ernest Hemingway 

November 3, 2010
I use nothing but the best ingredients. My cookies are always baked fresh. I price cookies so that you cannot make them at home for any less. And I still give cookies away.
- Debbi Fields (Mrs. Fields Cookies) 

November 2, 2010
I don't like gourmet cooking or "this" cooking or "that" cooking. I like good cooking.
- James Beard 

November 1, 2010
Sojourning east a while longer, soon I travel toward you, to remain, to teach...love,
For I know very well that I and...love belong among you, inland, and along the Western sea...
- Walt Whitman (Book of Calamus - Leaves  of Grass) 

October 31, 2010
Hold on, man. We don't go anywhere with "scary," "spooky," "haunted," or "forbidden" in the title.
- Shaggy from Scooby Doo 

October 30, 2010
A cloudy day is no match for a sunny disposition.
- William Arthur Ward 

October 29, 2010
Not by the hair on my chinny-chin-chin!
- Joseph Jacobs (Three Little Pigs) 

October 28, 2010
If dogs could talk, it would take a lot of the fun out of owning one.
- Andy Rooney 

October 27, 2010
You cannot open a book without learning something.
- Confucius 

October 26, 2010
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
- Mahatma Gandhi 

October 25, 2010
Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.
- Michael Jordan 

October 24, 2010
Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
- Henry David Thoreau 

October 23, 2010
Love is the only gold.
- Lord Alfred Tennyson 

October 22, 2010
Learning never exhausts the mind.
- Leonardo da Vinci 

October 21, 2010
I may not be there yet, but I'm closer than I was yesterday.
- Author Unknown 

October 20, 2010
Breathless, we flung us on a windy hill; Laughed in the sun, and kissed the lovely grass.
- Rupert Brooke 

October 19, 2010
All progress occurs because people dare to be different.
- Harry Milner 

October 18, 2010
It is not down in any map; true places never are.
- Herman Melville (Moby Dick) 

October 17, 2010
Every exit is an entry somewhere.
- Tom Stoppard 

October 16, 2010
The art of reading between the lines is as old as manipulated information.
- Serge Schmemann 

October 15, 2010
The meeting of two eternities, the past and future....is precisely the present moment.
- Henry David Thoreau 

October 14, 2010
Always pay attention to very quiet people because they are usually a triumph of mind over chatter.
- Bridgeport (CT) Telegram (February 26, 1923; page 8 column 1) 

October 13, 2010
All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast.
- John Gunther 

October 12, 2010
Make decisions from the heart and use your head to make it work out
- Sir Girad 

October 11, 2010
There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face.
- Bern Williams 

October 10, 2010
There's nothing like biting off more than you can chew, and then chewing anyway. ~ - Mark Burnett 

October 9, 2010
A goodbye isn't painful unless you're never going to say hello again.
- Author Unknown 

October 8, 2010
Beauty isn't something on the outside. It's your insides that count! You gotta eat green stuff to make sure you're pretty on the inside.
- Takayuki Ikkaku 

October 7, 2010
Dinner was made for eating, not for talking.
- William Makepeace Thackeray 

October 6, 2010
One ship sails east and another sails west
With the self-same winds that blow.
Tis the set of the sail and not the gale
Which determines the way they go.
As the winds of the sea are the ways of fate
As we voyage along through life,
Tis the act of the soul that determines the goal,
And not the calm or the strife.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox 

October 5, 2010
A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise. Because that is how life is - full of surprises.
- Isaac Bashevis Singer 

October 4, 2010
The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
- Allan K. Chalmers 

October 3, 2010
Every dog must have his day.
- Jonathan Swift 

October 2, 2010
The dog that trots about finds a bone.
- Golda Meir 

October 1, 2010
A company needs to have good business reflexes, to be able to marshal its forces in a crisis or in response to any unplanned event.
- Bill Gates 

September 30, 2010
It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau 

September 29, 2010
Tennis has given me soul.
- Martina Navratilova 

September 28, 2010
I don't have pet peeves, I have whole kennels of irritation.
- Whoopi Goldberg 

September 27, 2010
I'm trying to eat better. And, I do feel wise after drinking tea. After eating vegetables, I just feel hungry.
- Carrie Latet 

September 26, 2010
When the dog bites/When the bee stings/When I'm feeling sad/I simply remember by favorite things.
- Oscar Hammerstein II (My Favorite Things, The Sound of Music)

September 25, 2010
I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
- Pablo Picasso 

September 24, 2010
An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own term, not anyone else's.
- J.D. Salinger (Franny & Zooey)

September 23, 2010
To open a shop is easy, to keep it open is an art.
- Chinese Proverb 

September 22, 2010
If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful.
- Jeff Bezos 

September 21, 2010
The living moment is everything.
- D.H. Lawrence 

September 20, 2010
Dogs love company. They place it first in their short list of needs.
- J.R. Ackerley 

September 19, 2010
Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.
- William Feather 

September 18, 2010
There are no traffic jams along the extra mile.
- Roger Staubach 

September 17, 2010
In business you get what you want by giving other people what they want.
- Alice MacDougall 

September 16, 2010
Yeah gonna have to move on / Before we meet again
- Jet (Move on)  

September 15, 2010
An author knows his landscape best; he can stand around, smell the wind, get a feel for his place.
- Tony Hillerman 

September 14, 2010
The difference is that was then, this is now.
- Susan Eloise Hinton 

September 13, 2010
My life is like a stroll on the beach...as near to the edge as I can go.
- Henry David Thoreau 

September 12, 2010
Time discovers truth.
- Seneca 

September 11, 2010
A birthday is just the first day of another 365-day journey around the sun. Enjoy the trip.
- Author Unknown 

September 10, 2010
Remember brick walls let us show our dedication.
- Randy Pausch (The Last Lecture)

September 9, 2010
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
- Lord Alfred Tennyson 

September 8, 2010
Growing up is never easy. You hold on to things that were. You wonder what's to come.
- Fred Savage (The Wonder Years) 

September 7, 2010
A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.
- George Bernard Shaw

September 6, 2010
Yeah, well, sometimes nothin' can be a real cool hand.
- Paul Newman (Cool Hand Luke)

September 5, 2010
Are you gonna pull those pistols or whistle Dixie?
- Clint Eastwood (The Outlaw Josey Wales