Family Vacations

A vacation frequently means that the family goes away for a rest, accompanied by mother, who sees that the others get it.

~Marcelene Cox~

Garden seeds

The love of gardening is a seed that once sown never dies.
~Gertrude Jekyll~

Monkeys

I learned the way a monkey learns - by watching its parents.
~Prince Charles~

Monthly Sheep Day

We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me or get out of my way.
~General George Patton~

Botanical Garden

I know not which I love the most, Nor which the comeliest shows, The timid, bashful violet Or the royal-hearted rose, The pansy in purple dress, The pink with cheek of red, or the faint, fair heliotrope, who hangs like a bashful maid her head.
~Phoebe Cary~

Friendship Flowers

In friendship's fragrant garden,
There are flowers of every hue.
Each with its own fair beauty
And its gift of joy for you.
~Anonymous~

Paris

As an artist, a man has no home in Europe save in Paris.
~Friedrich Nietzsche~

America

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~

Queen

And hail their queen, fair regent of the night.
~Erasmus Darwin~

Children Playing

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~

Seashore

Today is a smooth white seashell, hold it close and listen to the beauty of the hours.
~Anonymous~

Dance

Dancing is the poetry of the foot
~~John Dryden~

Health, Wealth, Happiness

The greatest wealth is health.
~Virgil~

Sewing

Buttons and patches and the cold wind blowing,
The days pass quickly when I am sewing.
~Author Unknown~

Pink Perfection

"The very Pink of Perfection"
~Oliver Goldsmith~

Travel

“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.”
~St.Augustine~

Ferns

I come from haunts of coot and hern, I make a sudden sally And sparkle out among the fern, To bicker down a valley.
~Tennyson~

Childhood

"While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about."
~Anonymous~

Hope

Hope for the best but prepare for the worst.
~English Proverb~

Detectives

To read of a detective's daring finesse or ingenious stratagem is a rare joy.
~Rex Stout~

Happy 4th!

Does the government fear us? Or do we fear the government? When the people fear the government, tyranny has found victory. The federal government is our servant, not our master! ~Thomas Jefferson~

Pre-4th of July

“A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have.”
~Thomas Jefferson~

Patriotic

And I'm proud to be an American,
where at least I know I'm free.
And I won't forget the men who died,
who gave that right to me.
~Lee Greenwood~

Home Sweet Home

Peace - that was the other name for home. ~Kathleen Norris~

Saturn!

The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage.
~Mark Russell~

Patriotism

"Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions, it only guarantees equality of opportunity."
~Irving Kristol~

Summer Sea

There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.
~Victor Hugo~

Creativity

“There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all. Without creativity, there would be no progress, and we would be forever repeating the same patterns.”
~Edward de Bono~

Friendship

"Life without a friend is like death without a witness."
~Spanish Proverb~

Green Grass

I had to live in the desert before I could understand the full value of grass in a green ditch.
~Edna Maillart~

Vintage Japan

“Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.”
~Japanese Proverb~

Summer Flowers

Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed
~Walt Whitman~

Cats and Milk

I asked the waiter, 'Is this milk fresh?' He said, 'Lady, three hours ago it was grass.'
~Phyllis Diller~

Friendship

Don't be dismayed at goodbyes. A farewell is before you can meet again. And meeting again after a moment or a lifetime is certain for those who are friends.
~ Richard Bach ~

Summer Stroll

Now shall I walk
or shall I ride?
"Ride," Pleasure said:
"Walk," Joy replied.
~W.H. Davies~

Monthly Sheep Day

The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty. ~Abraham Lincoln~

Full Moon

I like to think the moon is there even if I'm not looking at it. ~Albert Einstein~

Home

Home is the one place in all this world where hearts are sure of each other. It is the place of confidence. It is the place where we tear off that mask of guarded and suspicious coldness which the world forces us to wear in self-defense, and where we pour out the unreserved communications of full and confiding hearts. It is the spot where expressions of tenderness gush out without any sensation of awkwardness and without any dread of ridicule.
~Frederick W. Robertson ~

Rose is a rose...

Beauty without virtue is like a rose without a scent.
~Proverbs~

~Love~

~Loved you then, love you still, always have, always will.~
~Unknown~

Monthly Sheep Day

~ I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine~
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