QUOTES
"The good for which we are born into this world is that we may learn to love" George McDonald
"Love is not a matter of counting the years; it's a making the years count" William Smith
"Whoever lives true life will love true love" Elizabeth Barrett Browning
"Love doesn't make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile." Franklin P. Jones
"The supreme happines in life is the conviction that we are loved." Victor Hugo
"Love one another, for he that loveth another hath fullfilled the law." Romans 13:8
"Grow old with me, the best is yet to be." Robert Browning
A man chases a woman until she catches him. American Proverb
Love never rusts, no matter how old it gets. Estonian Proverb
"To love and be loved is to fell the sun from both sides." David Viscott
"Love is like a violin. The music may stop now and then, but the strings remain forever." June Masters Bacher
"Coming together is a beginning; Keeping together is progress; Working together is success. Henry Ford
"Life is a sum of all your choices." Albert Camus
"Two roads diverged into a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference." Robert Frost
"He has achieved success who has worked well, laughed often, and loved much." Elbert Hubbard
"You must do the thing you think you cannot do." Eleanor Roosevelt
"The future belongs to those who prepare for it today." Malcolm X
"Dance to the music of your dreams; the steps will bring you joy." Annon.
"I know well that happiness is in the little things." John Ruskin
"Happiness consists more in small conveniences or pleasures that occur everyday, then in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom." Benjamin Franklin
"Happiness consists of living each day as if it were the last day of your honeymoon, and the last day of your vacation." Annon.
"Don't put off until tomorrow what can be enjoyed today." Josh Billings
"Goodness is the only investment which never fails." Henry David Thoreau
"Memories, important yesterdays, were once todays. Treasure and notice today. Gloria Gaither
Flowers leave their fragrance on the hand that bestows them. Chinese Proverb
When friends meet hearts warm. Scottish Proverb
"True friendship is a plant of slow growth." George Washington
"Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter." Izaac Walton
"Among God's best gifts to us are the people who love us." Annon
"Give a little love to a child and you get a great deal back." John Ruskin
If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day,
so
I never have to live without you."
--- Winnie the Pooh
"True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until
it be lost."
---Charles Caleb Colton
"A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out."
"Friendship is one mind in two bodies."
---Mencius
"Friends are God's way of taking care of us."
"If you should die before me, ask if you could bring a friend."
---Stone Temple Pilots
"I'll lean on you and you lean on me and we'll be okay."
---Dave Matthew's band
"If all my friends were to jump off a bridge, I wouldn't jump
with them, I'd
be at the bottom to catch them."
"Everyone hears what you say. Friends listen to what you say.
Best friends
listen to what you don't say."
"We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go,
we take a
little of each other everywhere."
--- Tim McGraw
"My father always used to say that when you die,
if you've got five real
friends, then you've had a great life."
---Lee Iacocca
"Hold a true friend with both your hands."
--Nigerian Proverb
"A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing
it back to
you when you have forgotten the words."
---unknown
"Every child is a different kind of little flower, and all together, they make this world a garden.
Unknown
children pull on our apron strings for a while, but on your heart strings, forever.
Unknown
Today I am a child.
My work is play!
Unknown
A mother's children are portraits of herself.
Unknown
The Toddler Creed
If I want it, it's mine.
If I give it to you and change my mind later, it's mine.
If I can take it away from you, it's mine.
If I had it a little while ago, it's mine.
If it's mine, it wil never belong to anybody else, no matter what.
If we are building something together, all the pieces are mine.
If it looks just like mine, it's mine.
Unknown
How will our children know who they are if they don't know where they came from?
Ma in Grapes of Wrath
Our children are the only possessions we can take to heaven.
Unknown
There are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child.
There are seven million.
Walt Streightift
A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty.
Pilar Coolinta
All kids are gifted; some just open their packages earlier than others.
Michael Carr
Children are to be treated gently.
They are like snowflakes-unique, but only here for a while.
Don Ward
The only thing worth stealing is a kiss from a sleeping child.
Joe Hollsworth
Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.
Phyllis Diller
You can learn many things from your children.
How much patience you have, for instance.
Franklin Jones
Turn around and you're two, turn around and you're four, turn around and you're a young girl going out of my door.
Malvina Collins, Turn Around, 1958
As I Grow
Please understand that I am growing up and changing very fast.
It must be difficult to keep pace with me, but please try.
Please reward me for telling the truth.
Then I am not frightened into lying.
Please tell me when you make mistakes and what you learned from them.
Then I can accept that I am okay, even when I blunder.
Please pay attention to meand spend time with me.
Then I can believe that I am important and worthwhile.
Please help me explore my unique interests, talents and potential.
In order for me to be happy, I need to be me.
Please do the things you want me to do.
Then I have a good, positive model.
Please tell me by your words and actions that you love me.
Then I will feel lovable and be able to love myself and others.
Unknown
A Little Girl Is...
innocence playing in the mud,
beauty standing on it's head
and motherhood dragging a doll by the foot.
Unknown
See that aweet little boy
With the angelic look
Sitting still as a mouse
With his big picture book
Don't let him fool you-
He'll be off in a flash
His legs pumping hard in
A headlong mad dash
He's gone to romp with the dog
Or throw toys wall to wall
He crawls up on the sink
Rides his bike down the hall
Outside he gets mucky
Then he tracks on my floor
He can't reach the doorknob
So he bangs on the door
He's nearby one minute
But the next one he's gone
Goes to bed with the chickens
Get's up with the dawn
That's my sweet little boy
With the angelic face
There's no one in this world
That I'd trade in his place
Unknown
Sticky fingers,
dirty face
Rugs and pillows
out of place
Cars and tractors
here and there,
blocks and boats
Everywhere.
Gold and Silver
have I none,
but worth a million
are my sons.
Ruth Joy
I dropped my dolly in the dirt
I asked my dolly if it hurt
And all my dolly said is
wa-ah, wa-ah, wa-ah
Unknown