Quotes

2008-08-16T12:12:00.001-07:00

“A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.”
Mohandas Gandhi

2008-07-14T07:52:00.000-07:00

We all need time to sit and rest, a place to relax and take a breath.
Michale Albrechtsen

2008-07-14T07:51:00.000-07:00

Each of us is an artist, capable of conceiving and creating a vision from the depths of our being.
Dorthy Fadiman

2008-07-14T07:50:00.000-07:00

There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.
-Martin Luther

2008-07-03T18:40:00.000-07:00

For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.
Harry F Banks

2008-07-02T16:20:00.000-07:00

Cowards die many times before their deaths, The valiant never taste of death but once. William Shakespeare

2008-07-02T16:19:00.000-07:00

Cherish your vision and your dreams as they are the children of your soul; the blueprints of your ultimate achievements. Napoleon Hill

2008-07-02T16:16:00.001-07:00

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Abraham Lincoln

2008-07-02T16:14:00.000-07:00

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. Martin Luther King Jr.

2008-07-02T16:13:00.000-07:00

If you think you are too small to be effective, you have never been in the dark with a mosquito.
Unknown

2008-06-22T13:42:00.000-07:00

Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Driftwood; Table Talk, 1857 US Poet

2008-06-22T13:41:00.001-07:00

A friend is what the heart needs all the time.
Henry Van Dyke

2008-06-22T13:38:00.000-07:00

To say the least, a town life makes one more tolerant and liberal in one's judgement of others.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Hyperion 1839

2008-06-22T13:18:00.000-07:00

If you pray for rain be prepared to deal with some mud.

2008-06-22T13:12:00.001-07:00

Laugh at your self first, before anyone else can.
Elsa Maxwell

2008-06-22T13:11:00.001-07:00

Animals are such agreeable friends, they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
George Eliss

2008-06-22T13:08:00.000-07:00

Nobody can be in good health if he does not have fresh air, sunshine, and good water.
Flying Hawk

2008-06-22T13:03:00.000-07:00

Liberty is the breath of life to nations.
George Bernard Shaw

2008-06-22T13:01:00.000-07:00

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.
Aristotle

2008-06-22T13:00:00.000-07:00

Who would ever think that so much can go on in the soul of a youn girl?
Anne Frank

2008-06-22T12:58:00.000-07:00

Fathering is not a sprint; it is a marathon.
Ken Canfield

2008-06-22T12:55:00.000-07:00

How rare and wonderful is that flash of moment when we realize we have discovered a friend.
Anonymous

2008-06-22T12:54:00.000-07:00

To be happy don't do whatever you like, like whatever you do.

2008-06-22T12:53:00.000-07:00

A photograph never grows old.
Albert Einstein

2008-06-22T12:52:00.001-07:00

There's nothing half so pleasant as coming home again.
Margaret Sangster

2008-06-22T12:51:00.000-07:00

A friend is a gift you give yourself.

2008-06-22T10:09:00.000-07:00

True power is found in the hands of a worthy nurturer, especially at mealtimes.

Mothers, who are "primarily responsible for the nurture of their children," can be a powerful force for strengthening families when they use mealtimes to gather loved ones. They follow the example of the Savior to calm, teach, and help their families remember important things as they feed, cultivate, educate, and rear at the consecrated tables in their homes.

Julie B Beck
Powerful Nurturing

2008-06-22T09:59:00.000-07:00

"After our whole family has survived another day, with all of it's ups and downs, we come together as a family and celebrate together. We don't have to wait for birthdays or holidays to be happy together. Life is too short. It doesn't Matter that we're eating macaroni and cheese with mismatched forks. What does matter is that we make mealtime a relaxed and enjoyable time together.

Let us make our kitchens creative centers from which we emanate some of the most delightful of all home experiences"

Barbara B Smith

2008-06-22T09:57:00.001-07:00

The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.

Calvin Trillin

2008-06-22T09:56:00.001-07:00

In truth a family is what you make it. It is made strong, not by the number of heads counted at the dinner table, but by the rituals you help family members create, by the memories you share, by the commitment of time, and love you show one another, and by hopes for the future you have as individuals and as a unit.

Marge Kennedy & Janet Spencer King
"The Single Parent Family"

2008-06-22T09:32:00.000-07:00

Teachers open a new window to the world.

2008-06-22T09:27:00.001-07:00

"To err is human. To blame it on somebody else is even more human."
Arthur Bloch

2008-06-17T22:47:00.001-07:00

Clouds may come, but clouds must go, and they have a silver lining, for beyond them all, you know, the sun or moon is shining.

2008-06-17T22:44:00.000-07:00

See! The good lies so near. Only learn to seize good fortune for good fortune's always here.
Goethe

2008-06-17T22:42:00.001-07:00

There can be no other occupation like gardening in which, if you were to creep up behind someone at their work, you would find them smiling.
Mirabel Osler

2008-06-17T22:39:00.000-07:00

A house is a home when it shelters the body and comforts the soul.
Phillip Moffit

2008-06-17T22:38:00.000-07:00

Time flies whether you're having fun or not.

2008-06-17T22:37:00.001-07:00

Worrying does not empty tomorrow of its troubles, it empties today of its strenght.
Anonymous

2008-06-17T22:35:00.000-07:00

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
Shakespeare

2008-06-17T22:34:00.000-07:00

Nature is a dictionary; one draws words from it.
Eugene Delacroix

2008-06-17T22:33:00.000-07:00

So much of what we know of love we learn at home.
Anonymous

2008-06-17T22:32:00.000-07:00

We think and live in our thoughts. That is what and where creating springs from.
Alfred Muma

2008-06-17T22:31:00.001-07:00

Silently one by one in the infinite meadows of heaven, blossomed the lovely stars, the forget me nots of angels.
Longfellow

2008-06-17T22:27:00.004-07:00

Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.
James F. Byrnes

2008-06-17T22:27:00.001-07:00

The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

2008-06-17T22:00:00.000-07:00

A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself.
Josh Billings

2008-06-17T21:57:00.000-07:00

A little house, a house of my own, out of the winds and the rain's way.
Padraic Colum

2008-06-17T21:55:00.000-07:00

There is nothing more properly the language of the heart than the wish.
South

2008-06-17T21:54:00.000-07:00

Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for old age.
Booth Tarkington

2008-06-17T21:52:00.000-07:00

Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own.
Carol Burnett

2008-06-17T21:50:00.000-07:00

Friendship needs no reason!
Ibycus

2008-06-17T21:46:00.000-07:00

A happy marriage has in it all the pleasures of friendship, all the enjoyments of sense and reason and indeed, all the sweets of life.
Addison

2008-06-17T21:44:00.000-07:00

Art is more than a product of your efforts - it should be about feeling, life, attitude, soul.
Sergei Bongart

2008-06-17T21:43:00.000-07:00

We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
Norton

2008-06-17T21:41:00.000-07:00

Attitude will always define who we are in life.
Mark A. Brennan

2008-06-17T21:37:00.000-07:00

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; They are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
Marcel Proust

2008-06-12T23:09:00.001-07:00

Creative vision contains a playful quality.
John Briggs

2008-06-12T23:06:00.000-07:00

Not what you do but how you do it, is the test of your capacity.

2008-06-12T23:04:00.000-07:00

I do not understand how anyone can live without one small place of enchantment to turn to.
Maciorie Kinnon Rawlings

2008-06-12T23:02:00.000-07:00

Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.
Quentin Crisp

2008-06-12T23:01:00.000-07:00

Who loves a garden still his eden keeps.
Ab Alcott

2008-06-12T22:59:00.000-07:00

A friend is a present you give yourself.

2008-06-12T22:57:00.000-07:00

A daughter is a little girl who grows up to be your friend.

2008-06-12T22:55:00.000-07:00

… and life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.

Grandma Moses

2008-06-12T22:53:00.001-07:00

Happiness isn't something you experience, it's something you remember.
Oscar Levant

2008-06-12T22:50:00.000-07:00

My mother a lady, both lovely and bright.
Sir Walter Scott

2008-06-12T22:46:00.000-07:00

Beauty is whatever gives joy.
Hugh Nibley

2008-06-12T22:45:00.000-07:00

Home is where you hang your hat.
Anonymous

2008-06-12T22:39:00.000-07:00

A teacher affects eternity; she can never know where her influence stops.
Henry Brooks Adams

2008-06-12T22:36:00.000-07:00

It is never too late to be what you might have been.
George Elliot

2008-06-12T22:30:00.000-07:00

The measure of your life will not be in what you accumulate, but in what you give away.
Wayne Dyer

2008-06-12T22:01:00.000-07:00

Time is not measured by clocks, but by moments.
Anonymous

2008-06-12T21:55:00.000-07:00

The artist is the person who makes life more interesting or beautiful, more understandable or mysterious, or probably, in the best sense, more wonderful.
George Bellows

2008-06-12T16:50:00.001-07:00

I can't do it" never yet accomplished anything; "I will try" has performed wonders.
George P. Burnham

2008-06-12T16:49:00.001-07:00

At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possiblities.
Jean Houston

2008-06-12T16:47:00.000-07:00

Just living is not enough...One must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower.
Anonymous

2008-06-12T16:41:00.000-07:00

“Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.”
The Greatest Salesman in the World