Quotes to ponder...

[allenb12]

Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.
Arthur Helps

[TexasJeff]

Nothing's as mean as giving a little child something useful for Christmas.

~ Kin Hubbard

[allenb12]

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.
Victor Hugo

[SailorSam]

"Oh, God, can you ever imagine what would happen to the country is Lyndon was president?" ~John F. Kennedy rhetorically asking Jackie about Lyndon B. Johnson



If only I could take the next step and become dictator of the whole world, then I could really make things happen. ~Lyndon Johnson

[MSHappyCampers]

"Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none" William Shakespeare

[TexasJeff]

"Big sisters are the crab grass in the lawn of life."

~ Charles M. Schultz

[MSHappyCampers]

"If you want the rainbow you gotta put up with the rain!" Dolly Parton

[allenb12]

The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand. Vince Lombardi

[TexasJeff]

“Some people have a large circle of friends while others have only friends that they like.”

~ Woodrow Wilson

[MSHappyCampers]

"Life is about making an impact, not an income!" Kevin Kruse

[SailorSam]

Immigrants poured steadily in[to America] as before, but with an alteration of stock which students of affairs marked with uneasiness. Throughout the century men of sturdy stocks of the north of Europe had made up the main strain of foreign blood which was every year added to the vital working force of the country, or men from the Latin-Gallic stocks of France and northern Italy; but now there came multitudes of men of the lowest class from the south of Italy and men of the meaner sort out of Hungary and Poland, men out of the ranks where there was neither skill nor energy nor any initiative of quick intelligence; and they came in numbers which increased from year to years, as if the countries of the south of Europe were disburdening themselves of the more sorid and hapless elements of their population, the men whose standards of life and work were such as American workmen had never dreamed hitherto. ~Woodrow Wilson 1902

[MSHappyCampers]

"Every time you get upset at something, ask yourself that if you were to die tomorrow was it worth wasting your time being angry" Robert Tew

[allenb12]

Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success. Edward Everett Hale

[TexasJeff]

“No, policemen were not danger lovers, they were seekers of the awesome, the incredible, even the unspeakable in human experience. Never mind whether they could interpret, never mind if it was potentially hazardous to the soul. To be there was the thing.”

~ Joseph Wambaugh, The Onion Field