Archive for the Tag 'Virginia Breeze'
Oct 15 2008
Posted by David under Blog, My photos
We’ve had bad luck with our kids – they’ve all grown up. ~Christopher Morley
Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man. ~Rabindranath Tagore
You are worried about seeing him spend his early years in doing nothing. What! Is it nothing to be happy? Nothing to skip, play, and run around all day long? Never in his life will he be so busy again. ~Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile, 1762
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Sep 23 2008
Posted by David under Blog, My photos, Well-known Quotations
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
Freedom is never free. ~Author Unknown
How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes! ~Maya Angelou
Lord, bid war’s trumpet cease;
Fold the whole earth in peace.
~Oliver Wendell Holmes
The patriot’s blood is the seed of Freedom’s tree. ~Thomas Campbell
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Sep 20 2008
Posted by David under Blog, My photos, Well-known Quotations
The tulip and the butterfly
Appear in gayer coats than I:
Let me be dressed fine as I will,
Flies, worms, and flowers exceed me still.
~Isaac Watts
Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life. ~Rachel Carson
That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply inserted into existence than the course of a single life would lead us to believe. ~John Berger, The Sense of Sight, 1980
Nature is man’s teacher. She unfolds her treasures to his search, unseals his eye, illumes his mind, and purifies his heart; an influence breathes from all the sights and sounds of her existence. ~Alfred Billings Street
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Sep 20 2008
Posted by David under Blog, My photos, Well-known Quotations
May the roof above us never fall in
And may we good companions beneath it never fall out.
~Irish Blessing
There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousands truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet; but we are shut up to them, and so they bring us nothing, but sit and sing awhile upon the roof, and then fly away. ~Henry Ward Beecher
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