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People - Scrapbooking Quotes
Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.
Victor Borge (b. 1909)
"The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children. If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think."
Clarence Seward Darrow (1857-1938)
"The person who can bring the spirit of laughter into a room is indeed blessed."
Bennett Alfred Cerf (1898-1971)
"The definition of success--To laugh much; to win respect of intelligent persons and the affections of children; to earn the approbation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to give one's self; to leave the world a little better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition.; to have played and laughed with enthusiasm, and sung with exultation; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived--this is to have succeeded."
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-82)
"I laugh, I love, I hope, I try I hurt, I need, I fear, I cry. And I know you do the same things too, So we're really not that different, me and you."
Colin Raye
"Sometimes we meet people that seem to understand us even though we don't try to explain ourselves or our actions."
Keny Jackson
"People didn’t fit in slots - prostitute, housewife, saint - like sorting the mail. We were so mutable, fluid with fear and desire, ideals and angles, changeable as water."
Janet Fitch, in her book “White Oleander”
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Children - Scrapbook Quotes
"Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers."
Socrates (470?-399 BC)
Keep me away from the wisdom that does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.
Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931)
"If one feels the need of something grand, something infinite, something that makes one feel aware of God, one need not go far to find it. I think that I see something deeper, more infinite, more eternal than the ocean in the expression of the eyes of a little baby when it wakes in the morning and coos or laughs because it sees the sun shining on its cradle."
Vincent Van Gogh (1853-90)
"The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children."
Edward VIII (1894-1972)
"The only reason I always try to meet and know the parents better is because it helps me to forgive their children."
Louis Johannot
"Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave When they think that their children are naïve."
Ogden Nash (1902-71)
"From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened you discover that you have wings."
Helen Hayes (b. 1900)
"Kids' views are often just as valid as the teachers'. The best teachers are the ones that know that."
Morley Saefer
"Never lose sight of the importance of a beautiful sunrise, Or watching your kids sleep, or the smell of rain. It's often the little things that really matter in life."
Unknown
The soul is healed by being with children.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Siblings - Scrapbook Quote
If you can laugh together, you can work together.
Robert Orben
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Parents - Scrapbooking Quotes
"The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children."
Edward VIII (1894-1972)
"The only reason I always try to meet and know the parents better is because it helps me to forgive their children."
Louis Johannot
"Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children."
Mignon McLaughlin
"Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave When they think that their children are naïve."
Ogden Nash (1902-71)
"Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life."
Muriel Sarah Spark (b. 1918)
"A mother never realizes that her children are no longer children."
James Agee (1909-55)
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Friends - Scrapbook Quotes
Little friends may prove great friends.
Aesop (620-560 BC)
"Friends are born, not made."
Henry Brooks Adams (1838-1918)
"Friendships begin because, even without words, we understand how someone feels."
Joan Walsh Anglund (b. 1926)
"In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds."
Aristotle (384-322 BC)
"To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind." Paul Aubuchon
"Don't be dismayed at good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again after a moment or lifetime is certain for those who are friends."
Richard David Bach (b. 1936)
"Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another."
Proverbs 17:17 Bible (15th-16th century)
"The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship."
William Blake (1757-1827)
"Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living!"
Amanda Bradley
"The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you."
Rita Mae Brown (b. 1944)
"I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see."
John Burroughs (1837-1921)
"He who possesses the source of Enthusiasm Will achieve great things. Doubt not. You will gather friends around you As a hair clasp gathers the hair."
I Ching (BC 1150)
"Friendship is like a sheltering tree."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)
"In America every woman has her set of girl-friends; some are cousins, the rest are gained at school. These form a permanent committee who sit on each other's affairs, who "come out" together, marry and divorce together, and who end as those groups of bustling, heartless well-informed club-women who govern society. Against them the Couple of Ehepaar is helpless and Man in their eyes but a biological interlude." Charles Caleb Colton (1780-1832)
"Friends are relatives you make for yourself."
Eustache Descamps
"Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in the blood of his followers and the sacrifices of his friends."
Dwight David Eisenhower (1890-1969)
"Animals are such agreeable friends, they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms."
George Eliot (1819-80)
"It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them."
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-82)
"I awoke with devout thanksgiving for my friends."
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-82)
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art, like the universe itself (for God diFriendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art, like the universe itself (for God did not need to create). It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.
C.S. Lewis
Girlfriends bring casseroles and scrub your bathroom when you are sick.
Girlfriends keep your children and keep your secrets.
Girlfriends give advice when you ask for it. Sometimes you take it,
sometimes you don't.
Girlfriends don't always tell you that you're right, but they're usually honest.
Girlfriends still love you, even when they don't agree with your choices.
Girlfriends might send you a birthday card, but they might not.
It does not matter in the least. Girlfriends laugh with you, and you
don't need canned jokes to start the laughter.
Girlfriends pull you out of jams.
Girlfriends don't keep a calendar that lets them know who hosted the other last.
Girlfriends will give a party for your son or daughter when they
get married or have a baby, in whichever order that comes!
Moreover, girlfriends are there for you, in an instant and truly, when
the hard times come. Girlfriends listen when you lose a job or a husband.
Girlfriends listen when your children break your heart.
Girlfriends listen when your parent's minds and bodies fail.
My girlfriends bless my life. Once we were young, with no idea of the
incredible joys or the incredible sorrows that lay ahead. Nor did we
know how much we would need each other.My dear friend, I cherish our friendship.
author unknown
"Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing.
There is a time for silence.  A time to let go and allow people
to hurl themselves into their own destiny.  And a time to prepare
to pick up the pieces when it's all over. "
Octavia Butler
Let us go singing as far as we go: the road will be less tedious.--
Virgil (70 BC - 19 BC), Eclogues
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Famous - Scrapbooking Quotations
Better learn balance...balance is key. Balance good...everything good. Balance bad...better pack up and go home.
Screenplay, Mr. Miyagi, The Karate Kid (1984)
"What do I know?"
Michel de Montaigne
"Try to be less certain about things that are a matter of opinion."
Charlie Brown
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Love - Scrapbooking Quotes
Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin .. it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
S. J. Perelman - Sorry about that, I just love this one!
In those whom I like, I can find no common denominator; in those whom I love I can: they all make me laugh.
Wystan Hugh Auden (1907-73)
"Separated lovers cheat absence by a thousand fancies which have their own reality. They are prevented from seeing one another and they cannot write; nevertheless they find countless mysterious ways of corresponding, by sending each other the song of birds, the scent of flowers, the laughter of children, the light of the sun, the sighing of the wind, and the gleam of the stars-all the beauties of creation."
Victor Hugo (1802-85)
"Sexiness wears thin after a while and beauty fades, but to be married to a man who makes you laugh every day, ah, now that's a real treat."
Joanne Woodward
"Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly."
Rose Dorothy Franken (1895-1988)
"To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind."
Paul Aubuchon
"The true beloveds of this world are in their lover's eyes lilacs opening, ship lights, school bells, a landscape, remembered conversations, friends, a child's Sunday, lost voices, one's favorite suit, autumn and all seasons, memory, yes, it being the earth and water of existence, memory."
Truman Capote (1924-84)
For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul
Judy Garland
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Heritage - Scrapbook Quotes
If kids come to us [educators/teachers] from strong, healthy functioning families, it makes our job easier. If they do not come to us from strong, healthy, functioning families, it makes our job more important.
Barbara Colorose
"No man is an Island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the Continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were; any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee."
John Donne (1572-1631)
"The truth isn't easily pinned to a page. In the bathtub of history, the truth is harder to hold than the soap, and much more difficult to find...."
Terry Pratchett, from "Sourcery", in anthology Rincewind the Wizzard littera scripta manet -the written word remains. (the saying continues: 'The weak word perishes')
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Nature and Animals- Scrapbook Quotations
You cannot hold back a good laugh any more than you can the tide. Both are forces of nature.
William Rotsler
"Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails."
Max Forrester Eastman (1883-1969)
"The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship."
William Blake (1757-1827)
"Animals are such agreeable friends, they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms."
George Eliot (1819-80)
Animals are reliable, many full of love, true in their
affections, predictable in their actions, grateful and loyal.
Difficult standards for people to live up to."
Alfred A. Montapert
I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance
e e cummings
A bird does not sing because he has an answer.
He sings because he has a song.
Joan Walsh Anglund
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Inspiration - Scrapbook Quotes
Could Hamlet have been written by a committee, or the Mona Lisa painted by a club? Could the New Testament have been composed as a conference report? Creative ideas do not spring from groups. They spring from individuals. The divine spark leaps from the finger of God to the finger of Adam.
A. Whitney Griswold
"Keep your faith in all beautiful things; in the sun when it is hidden, in the Spring when it is gone."
Roy R. Gilson
"Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way throughout a thousand obstacles."
Washington Irving (1783-1859)
"And from the discontent of one man The world's best progress springs."
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850-1919)
"We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. They see things in the soft haze of a spring day or in the red fire of a long winter's evening. Some of us let these great dreams die, but others nourish and protect them; nurse them through bad days till they bring them to the sunshine and light which comes always to those who sincerely hope that their dreams will come true."
(Thomas) Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924)
"Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you embark for strange places, don't leave any of yourself safely on shore. Have the nerve to go into unexplored territory."
Alan Alda
"You grow up the day you have your first real laugh at yourself."
Ethel Barrymore (1879-1959)
"The definition of success--To laugh much; to win respect of intelligent persons and the affections of children; to earn the approbation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to give one's self; to leave the world a little better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition.; to have played and laughed with enthusiasm, and sung with exultation; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived--this is to have succeeded."
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-82)
"I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge That myth is more potent than history That dreams are more powerful than facts That hope always triumphs over experience That laughter is the only cure for grief And I believe that love is stronger than death."
Robert Fulgham
If Today
"If you planted hope today In any hopeless heart If someone's burden was lighter Because you did your part, If you caused a laugh That chased some tears away If tonight your name is named When someone kneels to pray Then your day has been well spent."
Unknown
"If one feels the need of something grand, something infinite, something that makes one feel aware of God, one need not go far to find it. I think that I see something deeper, more infinite, more eternal than the ocean in the expression of the eyes of a little baby when it wakes in the morning and coos or laughs because it sees the sun shining on its cradle."
Vincent Van Gogh (1853-90)
"Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can."
Elsa Maxwell
"You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you."
James Allen, author
"If kids come to us [educators/teachers] from strong, healthy functioning families, it makes our job easier. If they do not come to us from strong, healthy, functioning families, it makes our job more important."
Barbara Colorose
"He who possesses the source of Enthusiasm Will achieve great things. Doubt not. You will gather friends around you As a hair clasp gathers the hair."
I Ching (BC 1150)
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
Helen Keller
"Yesterday is history.  Tomorrow is a mystery.  And today is a gift. That's why it's called 'the present'."
Loretta LaRoche
"If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves."
Thomas A. Edison, scientist and inventor
When you help someone climb the mountain...
you get closer to the top yourself.
anonymous
"There are no problems - only opportunities to be creative."
Dorye Roettger
"As the season of believing seems to wind down let me gently remind you that many dreams still wait in the wings. Many authentic sparks must be fanned before passion performs her perfect work in you. Throw another log on the fire."
Sarah Ban Breathnach
"I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it."
Pablo Picasso
"To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly."
Henri Bergson
"Some men throw their gifts away on a life of mediocrity, great men throw everything they have into their gifts and achieve a life of success."
Greg Werner
"To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong."
Joseph Chilton Pierce
"Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun."
Mary Lou Cook
"There are two ways of being creative. One can sing and dance. Or one can create an environment in which singers and dancers flourish."
Warren G. Bennis
"I'm always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up every morning. Every day I find something creative to do with my life."
Miles Davis
"The mind has exactly the same power as the hands; not merely to grasp the world, but to change it."
Colin Wilson
The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient.
Eugene S. Wilson
Inspire, so that people aspire to have this desire. please! do not tire, for you aren't an ordinary person sire, you are a work of art, dire! -
D_w's mantra
"Behold the turtle. He only makes progress when he sticks his neck out.
James Bryant Conant
"Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun."
Mary Lou Cook
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Seasons - Scrapbook Quote
Breathless, we flung us on a windy hill, Laughed in the sun, and kissed the lovely grass.
Rupert Brooke (1887-1915)
"Sit quiety, doing nothing, spring comes, and the grass grows by itself."
Zen Proverb
"Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face."
Victor Hugo (1802-85)
"Seven days without laughter makes one weak."
Mort Walker
"I awoke with devout thanksgiving for my friends."
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-82)
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Emotions - Scrapbooking Quote
Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.
Victor Hugo (1802-85)
"The person who knows how to laugh at himself will never cease to be amused."
Shirley MacLaine (b. 1934)
"You don't stop laughing because you grow old; You grow old because you stop laughing."
Michael Pritchard
"A good laugh is sunshine in a house."
William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-63)
"Never lose sight of the importance of a beautiful sunrise, Or watching your kids sleep, or the smell of rain. It's often the little things that really matter in life."
Unknown
"Don't be dismayed at good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again after a moment or lifetime is certain for those who are friends."
Richard David Bach (b. 1936)
"Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living!"
Amanda Bradley
"Our sweetest experiences of affection are meant to point us to that realm which is the real and endless home of the heart."
Henry Ward Beecher (1813-87)
If you prick us, do we not bleed?if you tickle us, do we not laugh?
William Shakespeare, from The Merchant of Venice
A child's laughter is sunshine that you can hear.
Mike Boudreaux
"The heart has its reasons, of which reason knows nothing."
Pascal
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