Summer Quotes

Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it. ~Russel Baker

A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawn mower is broken. ~James Dent


If a June night could talk, it would probably boast it invented romance. ~Bern Williams

Stay Cool Everyone!!

Read lots and Stay Spicy!!

C~

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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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Popular Quotes

“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.” 
― Marilyn Monroe

“Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.” 
― Dr. Seuss

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.” 
― Albert Einstein

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” 
― Oscar Wilde



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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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Quotes on Flowers

Earth laughs in flowers.  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Hamatreya"

I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.  ~Emma Goldman

People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.  ~Iris Murdoch, A Fairly Honourable Defeat

The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.  ~Tennessee Williams

Break open a cherry tree and there are no flowers, but the spring breeze brings forth myriad blossoms.  ~Ikkyu Sojun

Flowers don't worry about how the're going to bloom.  They just open up and turn toward the light and that makes them beautiful.  ~Jim Carrey

Have a wonderful day all!!

C~

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Quotes on ... Silence

True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.  ~William Penn

Silence is the true friend that never betrays.  ~Confucius

Silence is a source of great strength.  ~Lao Tzu

The silent man is the best to listen to.  ~Japanese Proverb

Have a great and enjoyable Wednesday!!

Read lots!!

C~

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Dare to Be GREAT Quotes

Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars. ~Les Brown

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. ~Henry Ford

If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up. ~J.M. Power

Spread joy. Chase your wildest dreams. ~Patch Adams

Have a great day all!!

C~

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Spring is Here

Spring is here, or it seems like it is, although it's pretty hard to tell sometimes in Florida. LOL

It's been a little rainy, the humidity and mugginess is back, so yeah defiantly a change in the weather from the nice cool mornings. 
I hate walking out a 6:30 am and being stifled from the humidity of the day before it's really even begun. But what's the other choice?? Move, yeah that's a good one, but not in the immediate future :-)
So suffer I will with the pollen, and asthma and "crap get out of my way so I can get to my damn inhaler!" Yeah, it's wonderful right now. ;-p 

Don't get me wrong, I love Spring!! I grew up in New England were Spring is appreciated and welcome. I loved when Spring hit, snow melting, flowers blooming, t-shirt weather was back! To me it's just more pronounced than the Florida Spring, which yes, I know, it's the climate and different parts on the country have different weather. 

Happy Spring all, Earth Day is quickly approaching, and Arbor Day is looming out there somewhere. :-)

Here's a few quotes to leave you with, as always, have a great day and read lots!!

C~

Spring is nature's way of saying, "Let's party!"  ~Robin Williams

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

April prepares her green traffic light and the world thinks Go.  ~Christopher Morley, John Mistletoe

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, Great Expectations 

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Arbor Day Quotes

The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago.  The next best time is now.  ~Chinese Proverb

You can live for years next door to a big pine tree, honored to have so venerable a neighbor, even when it sheds needles all over your flowers or wakes you, dropping big cones onto your deck at still of night.  ~Denise Levertov

If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer.  But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.  ~Henry David Thoreau

I never saw a discontented tree.  They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do.  They go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day, and through space heaven knows how fast and far!  ~John Muir

Hug a tree and have a wonderfully happy day ... oh and read lots :-D

C~

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Teenagers, Reading & Self-Respect Quotes

In my day, we didn't have self-esteem, we had self-respect, and no more of it than we had earned.  ~Jane Haddam

He that respects himself is safe from others; he wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.  ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time.  They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.  ~Quentin Crisp

If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.  ~Al Bernstein

When buying a used car, punch the buttons on the radio.  If all the stations are rock and roll, there's a good chance the transmission is shot.  ~Larry Lujack

When the boy is growing he has a wolf in his belly.  ~German Proverb


Ha, ha gotta love those quotes on teenagers. Mine is going on Seventeen and I have to say, the best kid in the world! 

We not only went to the library yesterday, where we checked out four books, bought three in their book store but also went to Books-A-Million and spent over $75.00. 

I don't mind buying any kind of book. If asked Mom will purchase :-) My teenager happens to be severe to profound dyslexic and we've come a loooong way. So when asked if a book or several can be bought, I never say no. :-)     

Here's to a wonderful Sunday!! Read lots and stay healthy!!

C~ 

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Quotes on Idleness

The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest, for he has not earned it.  ~John Lubbock

The hardest work is to go idle.  ~Yiddish Proverb

There is a working class - strong and happy - among both rich and poor:  there is an idle class - weak, wicked, and miserable - among both rich and poor.  ~John Ruskin

Working hard is what I've been taught, working hard is what I'll always do, no matter what I do. Idle hands lead to trouble, give them something that will keep them occupied. ~ C.A. Salo

LOL. My first quote!! :-) YAY ME *claps hands* 
Have a great day and read lots!!

C~

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George Carlin Quote

This was floating around at a couple of my friends Face Book profiles.

 

I have to agree with Mr. Carlin's quote, on many levels.

Hope you all have a great day!! Read lots and question aplenty!!

 

C ~

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~