Quotes on Teamwork

The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.  ~Margaret Carty

Many hands make light work.  ~John Heywood

Teamwork is the ability to work as a group toward a common vision, even if that vision becomes extremely blurry.  ~Author Unknown

A chain is only as strong as its weakest link.  ~Author Unknown


Hope you all have a great Sunday!! And read lots!!

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Music Quotes

A painter paints pictures on canvas.  But musicians paint their pictures on silence.  ~Leopold Stokowski

He who sings scares away his woes.  ~Cervantes

Music is what feelings sound like.  ~Author Unknown

Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.  ~Ludwig van Beethoven

Birthday Quotes

With my birthday looming on the horizon, I thought some birthday quotes to be acceptable 

We know we're getting old when the only thing we want for our birthday is not to be reminded of it.  ~Author Unknown

Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.  ~Chili Davis

They say that age is all in your mind.  The trick is keeping it from creeping down into your body.  ~Author Unknown

Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.  ~Charles Schulz

Have a great day everyone and remember -- read lots!!

C~

P.S.

Book 2 of The Other Kin Series has finished edits *YAY* and will be releasing in July 2013!

AND ... AND ...

Book 3 is already in the Senior Editor's hands *YAY* AND ... Book 4 is being plotted out!!

*YAY*

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Quotes about Children

We worry about what a child will become tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today. ~Stacia Tauscher

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance. ~Franklin P. Jones

A child can ask questions that a wise man cannot answer. ~Author Unknown

If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all.  ~Pearl S. Buck

Have a great day and read lots!!

C~

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Happy Mother's Day!!

Happy Mother's Day to all you Mom's out there!!

A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie.  ~Tenneva Jordan

Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs... since the payment is pure love.  ~Mildred B. Vermont

Mothers hold their children's hands for a short while, but their hearts forever.  ~Author Unknown

All mothers are working mothers.  ~Author Unknown

Love you all and read lots!!

C~

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Earth Day 2013

Earth Day is April 22nd, this year. Two years ago I was given a Dog Wood sapling on Earth Day, that I've happily nurtured and just recently the little bugger was re-potted by my husband, to a nicer and bigger pot. One day it'll find a home when I decide where I'd like to put her for life. 

I also love our new town. They give recycling buckets and pick up once a week. Ours is always full :-)
 

Tread lightly on Mother Earth for we only have one. ~ Author C. A. Salo

Every day is Earth Day.  ~Author Unknown

We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.  ~Native American Proverb

For 200 years we've been conquering Nature.  Now we're beating it to death.  ~Tom McMillan, quoted in Francesca Lyman, The Greenhouse Trap, 1990

Humankind has not woven the web of life.  We are but one thread within it.  Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves.  All things are bound together.  All things connect.  ~Chief Seattle, 1855

Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realize we cannot eat money.  ~Cree Indian Proverb    

Have a great Wednesday and read lots!!

C~ 

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Happy St. Patrick's Day

St. Patrick's Day is an enchanted time - a day to begin transforming winter's dreams into summer's magic.  ~Adrienne Cook

 For each petal on the shamrock
This brings a wish your way -
Good health, good luck, and happiness
For today and every day.
~Author Unknown

May your blessings outnumber
The shamrocks that grow,
And may trouble avoid you
Wherever you go.
~Irish Blessing 

 May the Irish hills caress you.
May her lakes and rivers bless you.
May the luck of the Irish enfold you.
May the blessings of Saint Patrick behold you.
~Irish Blessing

 Never iron a four-leaf clover, because you don't want to press your luck.  ~Author Unknown


Hey All, 

Sorry I've been off for a few weeks, I took the time to go and get married :-)

And now I'm fighting allergies, Oh Yay.

Hope everyone has a great Sunday and read lots!!
 
The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness.  You have to catch it yourself.  ~Author unknown, commonly attributed to Benjamin Franklin

C~


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Marriage Quotes

Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.  ~H.L. Mencken, A Book of Burlesques, 1916

 The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds - they mature slowly.  ~Peter De Vries

To keep the fire burning brightly there's one easy rule:  Keep the two logs together, near enough to keep each other warm and far enough apart - about a finger's breadth - for breathing room.  Good fire, good marriage, same rule.  ~Marnie Reed Crowell

Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other.  Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.  ~Katherine Hepburn

Never go to bed mad.  Stay up and fight.  ~Phyllis Diller, Phyllis Diller's Housekeeping Hints, 1966
 
Marriage means commitment.  Of course, so does insanity.  ~Author Unknown

 Like good wine, marriage gets better with age - once you learn to keep a cork in it.  ~Gene Perret  

My wife says I never listen to her.  At least I think that's what she said.  ~Author Unknown

Have a great Wednesday!!!!  

C~ 

Valentine's Quotes

Oh, if it be to choose and call thee mine, love, thou art every day my Valentine!  ~Thomas Hood

Many are the starrs I see, but in my eye no starr like thee.  ~English saying used on poesy rings

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.  ~Albert Einstein

I don't understand why Cupid was chosen to represent Valentine's Day.  When I think about romance, the last thing on my mind is a short, chubby toddler coming at me with a weapon.  ~Author Unknown 

I Hope everyone has a loving, safe and happy Valentine's!!

C~ 

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Curmudgeon Quotes

A cynic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.  ~Edgar A. Shoaff

I love mankind - it's people I can't stand.  ~Charles M. Schulz, Go Fly a Kite, Charlie Brown

Sarcasm is the sour cream of wit.  ~Author Unknown

I've always been interested in people, but I've never liked them.  ~W. Somerset Maugham

   

Self-Control/Discipline Quotes

Discipline is remembering what you want.  ~David Campbell

Discipline weighs ounces, regret weighs tons.  ~Author Unknown

Everyone must choose one of two pains: The pain of discipline or the pain of regret.  ~Jim Rohn

The cyclone derives its powers from a calm center.  So does a person.  ~Norman Vincent Peale

Hope everyone has a fantastic Wednesday!!!!

C~   

Coffee Quotes ... :-)

The morning cup of coffee has an exhilaration about it which the cheering influence of the afternoon or evening cup of tea cannot be expected to reproduce.  ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., "Over the Teacups," 1891

 No coffee can be good in the mouth that does not first send a sweet offering of odor to the nostrils.  ~Henry Ward Beecher

A morning without coffee is like sleep.  ~Author Unknown

Mothers are those wonderful people who can get up in the morning before the smell of coffee. ~Author Unknown 

Hope everyone has a great day!!
C~

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Quotes on Sex

Anybody who believes that the way to a man's heart is through his stomach flunked geography.  ~Robert Byrne, quoted in 1,911 Best Things Anybody Ever Said, 1988

A dirty book is rarely dusty.  ~Author Unknown

To hear many religious people talk, one would think God created the torso, head, legs and arms, but the devil slapped on the genitals.  ~Don Schrader

No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.  ~Abraham Lincoln

There is nothing wrong with going to bed with someone of your own sex.  People should be very free with sex, they should draw the line at goats.  ~Elton John

There's nothing better than good sex.  But bad sex?  A peanut butter and jelly sandwich is better than bad sex.  ~Billy Joel


Have a great day everyone!!!!

C~      

Quotes about Children

We worry about what a child will become tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today. ~Stacia Tauscher

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance. ~Franklin P. Jones

Children make your life important. ~Erma Bombeck

A child can ask questions that a wise man cannot answer. ~Author Unknown

Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see.  ~Neil Postman, The Disappearance of Childhood (introduction), 1982

A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.  ~Bill Vaughan

 Children seldom misquote.  In fact, they usually repeat word for word what you shouldn't have said.  ~Author Unknown

   And Finally, I do believe this is the one I like the best...

 

In the United States today, there is a pervasive tendency to treat children as adults, and adults as children.  The options of children are thus steadily expanded, while those of adults are progressively constricted.  The result is unruly children and childish adults.  ~Thomas Szasz 

Have a great Sunday and read lots!!
C~ 

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