This is My Blog Attempt: I've Learned Something New

Wednesday, November 17, 2010

I've Learned Something New

I was talking to a young man in th Navy Exchange today and told him I tried to work on my blog on my iPad and the iPad would not let me type in this box. He brought up his blog on one of the iPads in the store and showed me how. Now I know how to Blog on the Go.

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Favorite Quotes

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you will see.

--Winston Churchhill--

May you live all the days of your life.

--Jonathan Swift--

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

--Martin Luther King--

Our talents are the gifts God gives to us...what we make of our talents is our gift to God

--Leo Buscaglia--

Our truest life is when we are in our dreams awake.

--Henry David Thoreau--

People know you for what you've done, not what you plan to do.

--Unknown--

Please all and you will please none.

--Aesop--

Presence is more than just being there.

--Malcolm S. Forbes--

Pretty much all the truth telling there is in the world is done by children.

--Oliver Wendell Holmes--

Sit quietly, doing nothing, spring comes, and the grass grows by itself.

--Zen Saying--

Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.

--Unknown--

Someone may have stolen your dream when it was young and fresh and you were innocent. Anger is natural. Grief is appropriate. Healing is mandatory. Restoration is possible.

--Jane Rubritta--

Strength lies in differences, not in similarities.

--Stephen Conley--

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.

--Booker T. Washington--

Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.

--Don Marques--

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

--Unknown--

We never know the love of a parent till we become a parent ourselves.

--Harriet Ward Beecher--

If I had my child to raise over again

I'd build self esteem and the house later

I'd fingerpaint more and point the finger less

I would do less correcting and more connecting

I'd take my eyes off my watch and watch with my eyes

I would care to know less and know to care more

I'd take more hikes and fly more kites

I'd stop playing serious and seriously play

I would run through more fields and gaze at more stars

I'd do more hugging and less tugging

I'd see the oak tree in the acorn more often

I'd be firm less often and affirm much more

I'd model less about the love of power

And more about the power of love

--Diane Loumans--

Parents who are afraid to put their foot down usually have children who step on their toes.

--Chinese Proverb--

They fuck you up, your mum and dad

They may not mean to but they do.

They fill you with the faults they had

And add some extra, just for you.

--Phillip Larken--

Your folks are like God because you want to know they're out there, and you want them to approve of your life, stlil you only call when you're in a crisis, or you need something.

--Chuck Palahnuik--

Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth.

--Peter Ustinov--

Parents must get across the idea that "I love you always, but sometimes I do not love your behavior."

--Amy Vanderbilt--

If you look deeply into the palm of your hand you will see your parents and all the generations of your ancestors. All of them are alive at this moment. Each is present in your body. You are the combination of each of these people.

--Thich Nhat Hanh--

The joys of parents are secret, and so are their griefs and tears; they cannot utter the one, nor will they utter the other.

--Francis Bacon--

If you've never been hated by your child, you've never been a parent,

--Bette Davis--

To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child, when a parent dies, the past dies.

--Red Auerbach--

Sometimes you must love your children enough to let them hate you for a while.

--Carol Burnette--

Children aren't happy without something to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.

--Ogden Nash--

A truely rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty.

--Unknown--

Blessed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father.

--Lydia M. Child--

The greatest gift I ever had

Came from God--I call him Dad.

--Unknown--

Old as she was she still missed her Daddy sometimes.

--Gloria Nalor--

The heart of a mother is a deep abyess at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.

--Honore de Balzar--

My mom is a neverending song in my heart of comfort, happiness and being. I may sometimes forget the words but I always remember the tune.

--Greycie Harmon--

Grown don't mean nothing to a mother. A child is a child. They get bigger, older, but grown? What's that supposed to mean? In my heart it don't mean a thing.

--Toni Morrison--

I cannot forget my mother. She is my bridge. When I needed to get across she stretched herself long enough for me to run across safely.

--Renata Weems--

It's not easy being a mother. If it were easy, fathers would do it.

--The Golden Girls--

All that I am or ever hope to be I owe to my angel mother.

--Abraham Lincoln--

A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest.

--Irish Proverb--

Someday you'll cry for me

The way I've cried for you.

Someday you'll miss me

The way I've missed you.

Someday you'll need me

The way I need you.

Someday you'll love me

But I won't love you.

--Unknown--

This is My Blog Attempt

Wednesday, November 17, 2010

I've Learned Something New

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