Quote It! Saturday

This blog is, of course, devoted to quotes. But Freda's Voice has a wonderful meme called Quote It! that I cannot resist participating in. You can post as many quotes as you like. To join in, hop on over to Freda's place!

Here are my weekly offering:

You know, Chuck, when you're young, you can keep the fires of hope burning bright, but at my age you're lucky if the pilot light doesn't go out.
Going My Way
~Frank Butler & Frank Cavett

...Now he was getting a lesson in the complexities of human relationships. Coffin had been at it long enought to know that was the way the truth lay, that in the untidiness lay the answer.

Coffin Underground (p. 100) by Gwendoline Butler

An open mind is all very well in its way, but ought not to be so open that there is no keeping anything in or out of it. It should be capable of shutting its doors sometimes, or it may be found a little drafty.

~Samuel Butler

Quote It! Saturday

This blog is, of course, devoted to quotes. But Freda's Voice has a wonderful meme called Quote It! that I cannot resist participating in. You can post as many quotes as you like. To join in, hop on over to Freda's place!

Here is my weekly offering:

Myths can be painful when they explode in your face.

Wycliffe & the Redhead (p. 35)
~W. J. Burley

When you reach for the stars, you may not quite get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud either.
~Leo Burnett

...Imagination took the reins and Reason, slow-paced, though sure-footed, was unequal to a race with so eccentric and flighty a companion.

Evelina
~Fanny Burney

The majority of us lead quiet, unheralded lives as we pass through this world. There will most likely be no tickertape parades for us, no monuments created in our honor. But that does not lessen our possible impact, for ther are scores of people waiting for someone just like us to come along; people who will appreciate our compassion, our encouragement, who will need our unique tallents. someone who will live a happier life merely because we took time to share what we had to give.

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around. It's overwhelming to consider the continuous opportunities there are to make our love felt.

~Leo Buscaglia

Quote It! Saturday (on Sunday)

This blog is, of course, devoted to quotes. But Freda's Voice has a wonderful meme called Quote It! that I cannot resist participating in. You can post as many quotes as you like. To join in, hop on over to Freda's place!

Thanks to the Blogger debacle, I have yet another excuse for running late. I feel like the White Rabbit--checking my pocket watch and hollering, "I'm late! I'm late!"

Here we go...

Truth is a demure lady, much too ladylike to knock you on the head and drag you to her cave. She is there, but the people must want her, and see her out.
~William F. Buckley, Jr.

If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking.
~Buddhist Proverb

Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery that it is, in the boredom and the pain of it, no less than the excitement and gladness. Touch, taste, smell your way to the holy and hidden heart of it, for in the last analysis, all moments are key moments, and life itself is grace.
~Frederick Buechner

There is work that is work and there is play that is play; there is play that is work and work that is play. And in only one of these lie happiness.
~Gelett Burgess

Book Quote of the Day

Some things you must always be unable to bear. Some things you must never stop refusing to bear. Injustice and outrage and dishonor and shame. No matter how young you are or how old you have got. Not for kudos and not for cash: your picture in the paper nor money in the bank either. Just refuse to bear them.

Intruder in the Dust by William Faulkner

Quote It! Saturday (on Sunday)

I'm still trying to get back in the swing of my quote blog...and, being all about quotes here, I can't resist participating in Quote It! sponsored by Freda's Voice. You can post as many quotes as you like. To join in, hop on over to Freda's place!

Since I'm behind and doing this on Sunday, Mother's Day, I thought I'd see what I have in my collection that might be appropriate....

Imagination is something that sits up with Mom and Dad the first time their teenager stays out late.

~Lane Olinghouse

A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie.

~Tenneva Jordan

If you have a mom, there is nowhere you are likely to go where a prayer has not already been.

~Robert Brault

A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends who rejoice with us in our sunshine desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness and cause peace to return to our hearts.

~Washington Irving

The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.

~Theodore M Hesburgh

Parents need to fill a child's bucket of self-esteem so high that the rest of the world can't poke enough holes in it to drain it dry.

~Alvin Price

Reading Quote of the Day

I've been shamefully neglecting my quotes page. It just hasn't been on the priority list in my pre- and post-surgery world. Gonna try to get back on track. Here we go with some favorite quotes from books:


I'm beginning to think that all our greatest disasters are due to fools rather than knaves. Contemporary history certainly suggests it.

Die All, Die Merrily (p. 44)
~Leo Bruce

There were many ways of breaking a heart. Stories were full of hearts broken by love, but what really broke a heart was taking away its dream--whatever that dream may be.

The Patriot
~Pearl S. Buck