Nature Songs and Quotes~~~~

Quotes which I happen across and they have some special significant meaning for me ... Most are from clippings saved throughout the years.


Catherine Aird
"If you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning."


Janette Barber
"I refuse to think of them as chin hairs. I think of them as stray eyebrows."


Roseanne Barr
"I'm not going to vacuum 'til Sears makes one you can ride on."


Sir William G. Benham
"Pray devoutly, but hammer stoutly."


James Gordon Bennett
"I have made mistakes but I have never made the mistake of claiming that I never made one."


Rusty Berkus
"When you know you are doing your very best within the circumstances of your existence, applaud yourself!"


Romano Bertola - Italian comedian
"It certainly was a great idea of yours to come and see us. But our idea not to answer the door, wasn't bad either."


Sandra Biereg
"To accept ourselves as we are means to value our imperfections as much as our perfections."


Erma Bombeck
"My second favorite household chore is ironing. My first being hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint."


Elayne Boosler
"When women are depressed they either eat or go shopping. Men invade another country."


Kathy Buckley
"When I was young, I was put in school for retarded kids for two year before they realized I actually had hearing loss. And they called ME slow!"


Edmund Burke
"They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance."


Dale Carnegie
"When fate hands you a lemon, make lemonade."


Marie Corelli
"I never married, because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog that growls every morning, a parrot that swears all afternoon, and a cat that comes home late every night."


Bette Davis
" Old age ain't no place for sissies."


Albert Einstein (1879-1955) - Genius
"Well-being and happiness never appeared to me as an absolute aim. I am even inclined to compare such moral aims to the ambitions of a pig."


Albert Einstein, Physicist
"We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them."


Linda Ellerbee
"If men can run the world, why can't they stop wearing neckties? How intelligent is it to start the day by tying a noose around your neck?"


Linda Ellerbee
"A few weeks after my surgery, I went out to play catch with my golden retriever. When I bent over to pick up the ball, my prosthesis fell out. The dog snatched it, and I found myself chasing him down the road yelling "Hey, come back here with my breast!"


English proverb
"Many things are lost for want of asking."


Estonian proverb
"Who does not thank for little will not thank for much."


Jean de La Fontaine
"Sadness flies away on the wings of time."


B. C. Forbes
"To make headway, improve your head."


Bill Foster
"Practice being excited."


Thomas Fuller
"A wise man turns chance into good fortune."


Zsa Zsa Gabor
"I am a marvelous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man I keep his house."


James A. Garfield, U. S. President
"I am trying to do two things: dare to be a radical and not a fool, which is a matter of no small difficulty."


Herbert Gasser
"Forget the times of your distress, but never forget what they taught you."


Boy George
"If you have to be in a soap opera, try not to get the worst role."


Sue Grafton
"If high heels were so wonderful, men would still be wearing them."


Athur Guiterman
"Admitting Error clears the Score / And proves you Wiser than before."


Rhonda Hansome
"A man's got to do what a man's got to do. A woman must do what he can't."


Julius Charles Hare
"The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men."


Helen Hayes (at 73)
"The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy."


Ernest Hemingway - from The Garden of Eden
"All things truly wicked start from innocence."


Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) - British philosopher
"He that is taken and put into prison or chains is not conquered, though overcome; for he is still an enemy."


Bob Hope
"If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf."


Dolores Ibarruri
It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.


Japanese proverb
" Vision without action is a daydream.Action with without vision is a nightmare."


Thomas Jefferson, U.S. President
"Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching."


Geri Jewell
"You know the hardest thing about having cerebral palsy and being a woman? It's plucking your eyebrows. That's how I originally got pierced ears."


Erica Jong
"You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy."


Helen Keller
"Never bend your head. Hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye."


Sister Elizabeth Kenny
"It's better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life."


Corita Kent
"Flowers grow out of dark moments."


John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946) economist
"The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping the old ones."


Jan King
"Whoever thought up the word "Mammogram"? Every time I hear it, I think I'm supposed to put my breast in an envelope and send it to someone."


Brian Koslow
"Never make negative comments or spread rumors about anyone. It depreciates their reputation and yours."


Laurie Kuslansky
"Laugh and the world laughs with you. Cry and you cry with your girlfriends."


Caryn Leschen
"Thirty-five is when you finally get your head together and your body starts falling apart."


Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat."


James Russell Lowell
"Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly."


Og Mandino, Author
"I will persist until I succeed. Always will I take another step. If that is of no avail I will take another, and yet another. In truth, one step at a time is not too difficult... I know that small attempts, repeated, will complete any undertaking."


Anne O'Hare McCormick, Pulitzer Prize Winning Journalist
"The percentage of mistakes in quick decisions is no greater than in long-drawn-out vacillation,and the effect of decisiveness itself "makes things go" and creates confidence."


Reba McEntire, country Music singer and Actress
"Growing up is not being so dead-set on making everybody happy."


Thomas Merton
"We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves."


Ellen Metcalf
"You have to recognize when the right place and the right time fuse and take advantage of that opportunity. There are plenty of opportunities out there. You can't sit back and wait."


Edward R. Murrow
"Our major obligation is not to mistake slogans for solutions."


Byron Nelson
"Putting affects the nerves more than anything. I would actually get nauseated over three-footers .."


Paul O'Neil "Golf is essentially an exercise in masochism conducted out of doors ...."

Dolly Parton
"I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb and I'm also not blonde."


Maryon Pearson
"Behind every successful man is surprised woman."


Laurence Peter
"A man doesn't know what he knows until he knows what he doesn't know."


Jim Rohn, Speaker and Author
"If you wish to find, you must search. Rarely does a good idea interrupt you."


Romain Rolland
"A hero is a man who does what he can."


Eleanor Roosevelt
"The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything."


Eleanor Roosevelt
"Nobody can make you feel inferior without your permission."


Charles M.Schulz
- creator of the comic strip 'Peanuts'
"Don’t worry about the world coming to an end today. It’s already tomorrow in Australia."

Jane Sellman
"The phrase "working mother" is redundant."


Andre Siegfried
"Do you want to injure someone's reputation? Don't speak ill of him, speak too well."


Carrie Snow
"A male gynecologist is like an auto mechanic who never owned a car."


Gloria Steinem
"I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and career."


Publilius Syrus
"No one knows what he can do until he tries."


Susan Taylor, Editor of Essence Magazine
"Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth."


Margaret Thatcher
"In politics, if you want anything said, ask a man--if you want anything done, ask a woman."


Lily Tomlin
"Things are going to get a lot worse before they get worse."

Jennifer Unlimited
"Every time I close the door on reality it comes in through the windows."


Jennifer Unlimited
"I try to take one day at a time, but sometimes several days attack me at once."


H. G. Wells (from "Kipps")
"The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships."


Charlotte Whitton
"Whatever women must do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult."


Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) - playwright, author
"Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship,and it is far the best ending for one."


Lizz Winstead
"I think---therefore I'm single."




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