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OT ✦ GOODNIGHT / Signed-on thread /BRB... - in Tropical Flower's honor
Posted Wed, 09/03/2008 - 21:46 — dawn4scifiOkay Podkido, it is time again for your sleepy time quotes.
So once in every year we throng
Upon a day apart,
To praise the Lord with feast and song
In thankfulness of heart.
~Arthur Guiterman, The First Thanksgiving
The Pilgrims made seven times more graves than huts. No Americans have been more impoverished than these who, nevertheless, set aside a day of thanksgiving. ~H.U. Westermayer
In my garden there is a large place for sentiment. My garden of flowers is also my garden of thoughts and dreams. The thoughts grow as freely as the flowers, and the dreams are as beautiful. ~Abram L. Urban
Live every day as if it were your last and then some day you'll be right. ~H.H. "Breaker" Morant
YIKES!! LOL!
Good St. Patrick travelled far, to teach God's Holy Word
And when he came to Erin's sod, a wondrous thing occurred
He plucked a shamrock from the earth and held it in His hand
To symbolise the Trinity that all might understand
The first leaf for the Father
And the second for the Son
The third leaf for the Holy Spirit
All three of them in one.
Once you choose hope, anything's possible. ~Christopher Reeve
War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
~ John Stuart Mill
Very true.
✝ Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and His righteousness, and all these things will be given unto you...✝
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The Soldier: - By Charles M. Province
It is the soldier, not the reporter, who has given us freedom of the press.
It is the soldier, not the poet, who has given us freedom of speech.
If you can read this message thank a teacher,
If you are reading it in English of your own free will THANK A SOLDIER!
It is the soldier, not the campus organizer, who has given us the freedom to demonstrate.
It is the soldier, not the lawyer, who has given us the right to a fair trial.
It is the soldier, who salutes the flag, who serves under the flag, and whose coffin is draped by the flag,
who allows the protester to burn the flag.
To all the brave men and women who have dedicated or given their lives
to protecting this country and it's freedoms:
Thank you.
Amen.
✝ Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and His righteousness, and all these things will be given unto you...✝
I think there is one higher office than president and I would call that patriot. ~Gary Hart
We on this continent should never forget that men first crossed the Atlantic not to find soil for their ploughs but to secure liberty for their souls. ~Robert J. McCracken
I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him. ~Abraham Lincoln
A sensible man will remember that the eyes may be confused in two ways - by a change from light to darkness or from darkness to light; and he will recognize that the same thing happens to the soul. ~Plato
A day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness. ~Psalms 84:10
'Tis now the very witching time of night,
When churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out
Contagion to this world.
~William Shakespeare
Podkido, I do not want to be where hell breathes out. Yuck.
✝ Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and His righteousness, and all these things will be given unto you...✝
“And the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet ice cold in the snow,
stood puzzling and puzzling, how could it be so? It came without ribbons.
It came without tags. It came without packages, boxes or bags.
And he puzzled and puzzled 'till his puzzler was sore.
Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before.
What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store.
What if Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more.”
Dr. Seuss
It is an important and popular fact that things are not always what they seem. For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much - the wheel, New York, wars and so on - whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man - for precisely the same reasons. ~Douglas Adams, The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else. ~Judy Garland
The air up there in the clouds is very pure and fine, bracing and delicious. And why shouldn't it be? - it is the same the angels breathe. ~Mark Twain, "Roughing It"
Happy Boss Day!
The best leader is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it. ~Theodore Roosevelt
Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man. ~Rabindranath Tagore
Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body. ~Elizabeth Stone
Beautiful one, Podkido.
✝ Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and His righteousness, and all these things will be given unto you...✝
Life is a tapestry: We are the warp; angels, the weft; God, the weaver. Only the Weaver sees the whole design. ~Quoted in The Angels' Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994
Angels descending, bring from above,
Echoes of mercy, whispers of love.
~Fanny J. Crosby
If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering if there are men on base. ~Dave Barry
LOL!! Love it!
As a woman, even if I have no children, I can attest that this would be so.
✝ Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and His righteousness, and all these things will be given unto you...✝
Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up. ~Robert Frost
Sandwich every bit of criticism between two thick layers of praise. ~Mary Kay Ash
Friends and neighbors complain that taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might the more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly. ~Benjamin Franklin
In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit. ~Albert Schweitzer
I used to believe that anything was better than nothing. Now I know that sometimes nothing is better. ~Glenda Jackson
It is better to stir up a question without deciding it, than to decide it without stirring it up. ~Joseph Joubert
Goodnight Dawn,and Podkido...Dawn:I have an update for you,I start working at ORION on Monday....
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars. ~ Les Brown
I wear a coat of angels' breath and warm myself with His love. ~Emme Woodhull-Bäche
Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition. ~ Thomas Jefferson
A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned - this is the sum of good government.
Thomas Jefferson
This one and some of the ones below it, need to be spread to the US and the government. Sigh.
✝ Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and His righteousness, and all these things will be given unto you...✝
I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them. ~ Thomas Jefferson
It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you. ~ [filtered word] Cheney
Anyone can carry his burden, however hard, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, till the sun goes down. And this is all life really means. ~Robert Louis Stevenson
Our country is not the only thing to which we owe our allegiance. It is also owed to justice and to humanity. Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong. ~James Bryce
For twas not into my ear you whispered
But into my heart
Twas not my lips you kissed
But my soul
~Judy Garland