Happy Veteran's Day!...

"I think there is one higher office than President
and I would call that Patriot."

- Gary Hart
 

"In war, there are no unwounded soldiers."
- José Narosky

"More than an end to war, we want an end to the
beginning of all wars - yes, an end to this brutal,
inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of
settling the differences between governments."

- Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Happy Veteran's Day - especially to those who have
fought for our freedoms and to protect this country!
I thank you from the bottom of my heart! And
thank you to those today who are protecting this
great land!!
Below are two posts I did in the past. The first one
is military humor and the second is Veteran's Day
quotes and a nice video you may want to watch.
Have a blessed weekend, everyone!! I am sending
out peace today... Val =)

Click on links below:

Veteran's Day Humor

Veteran's Day Quotes and a Video

Labor Day Quotes and a Bible Verse...

Labor Day Quotes and a Bible Verse

Do not labor for the food that perishes,
but for the food that endures to eternal life,
which the Son of Man will give to you.
For on Him God the Father has set His seal.- John 6:27

"Work isn't to make money; you work to justify life."
- Marc Chagall

"Without labor nothing prospers."
- Sophocles

"If any man tells you he loves America, yet hates labor,
he is a liar. If any man tells you he trusts America,
yet fears labor, he is a fool."
- Abraham Lincoln

"The end of labor is to gain leisure."
- Aristotle

"Take rest; a field that has rested gives
a bountiful crop."
- Ovid

"Sometimes it's important to work for that pot of gold.
But other times it's essential to take time off and to
make sure that your most important decision in the
day simply consists of choosing which color to slide
down on the rainbow."
- Douglas Pagels

"The man who doesn't relax and hoot a few hoots
voluntarily, now and then, is in great danger of
hooting hoots and standing on his head for the
edification of the pathologist and trained nurse,
a little later on."
- Elbert Hubbard

"If all the cars in the United States were placed end
to end, it would probably be Labor Day weekend."
- Doug Larson

"Labor Day is a glorious holiday because your child
will be going back to school the next day. It would
have been called Independence Day, but that name
was already taken."
- Bill Dodds

Audrey Hepburn Quotes...

Audrey Hepburn Quotes


"Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really
start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book,
and remembering - because you can't take it in all at once."


"Paris is always a good idea."


"If I get married, I want to be very married."


"Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, it's at the end of your arm.
As you get older, remember you have another hand. The first is to help
yourself, the second is to help others."


"It's that wonderful old-fashioned idea that others come first and
you come second. This was the whole ethic by which I was brought up.
Others matter more than you do, so 'don't fuss, dear; get on with it.'"


"If I'm honest I have to tell you I still read
fairy-tales and I like them best of all."


"I believe in manicures. I believe in overdressing. I believe in primping at
leisure and wearing lipstick. I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is
the best calorie burner. I believe happy girls are the prettiest girls...
I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong.
I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles."


"For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips,
speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge
that you are never alone."


"People even more than things, have to be restored, renewed,
revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone."


"I never thought I'd land in pictures with a face like mine."

Lewis Carroll Quotes...

Lewis Carroll Quotes

"Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle."

"Oh, 'tis love, 'tis love that makes the world go round."

“One of the secrets of life is that all that is really

worth the doing is what we do for others.”

"Contrariwise, if it was so, it might be; and if it were so,

it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic."

"I have had prayers answered, most strangely so sometimes,

but I think our heavenly Father's loving-kindness has been

even more evident in what He has refused me."

"Everything is funny, if you can laugh at it."

"We called him Tortoise because he taught us."

"If you don't know where you are going,

any road will get you there."

"Everything's got a moral,

if only you can find it."

"Twinkle, twinkle little bat,

How I wonder what you're at!

Up above the world you fly,

Like a tea-tray in the sky."

"'But I don't want to go among mad people,'

said Alice. 'Oh, you can't help that,'

said the cat. 'We're all mad here.'"

Easter Quotes...

Easter Quotes

"For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance:

that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, that He

was buried, that He was raised on the third day according to

the Scriptures."

- St. Paul, 1 Corinthians 15:3-4

"Earth's saddest day and gladdest day were

just three days apart!"

- Susan Coolidge

"To a Christian, Easter Sunday means everything,

when we celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ."

- Bernhard Langer

"The marvel of heaven and earth, of time and eternity,

is the atoning death of Jesus Christ. This is the mystery

that brings more glory to God than all creation."

- C. H. Spurgeon

"The great gift of Easter is hope - Christian hope which

makes us have that confidence in God, in his ultimate triumph,

and in his goodness and love, which nothing can shake."

- Basil C. Hume

"Let every man and woman count himself immortal.

Let him catch the revelation of Jesus in His resurrection.

Let him say not merely, 'Christ is risen,' but 'I shall rise.'"

- Phillips Brooks

"He takes men out of time and makes them feel eternity."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The resurrection gives my life meaning and direction and the

opportunity to start over no matter what my circumstances."

- Robert Flatt

"Do not abandon yourselves to despair.

We are the Easter people and hallelujah

is our song."

- Pope John Paul II

April Fool's Day Quotes...

April Fool's Day Quotes

"The first of April is the day we remember what we are

the other 364 days of the year."

- Mark Twain

"The great God endows His children variously. To some He gives

intellect... and they move the earth. To some He allots heart...

and the beating pulse of humanity is theirs. But to some He gives

only a soul, without intelligence... and these, who never grow up,

but remain always His children, are God's fools, kindly, elemental,

simple, as if from His palette the Artist of all has taken

one color instead of many."

- Mary Roberts Rinehart

"The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools

are right sometimes."

- Sir Winston Churchill

"Don't approach a goat from the front, a horse from the back,

or a fool from any side."

- A Jewish Proverb

"Foolproof systems to not take into account

the ingenuity of fools."

- Gene Brown

"Wise men talk because they have something to say;

fools talk because they have to say something."

- Plato

"A fool flatters himself; a wise man flatters the fool."

- Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

"A fellow who is always declaring he's no fool,

usually has his suspicions."

- Author Unknown

"Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark,

or the man afraid of the light?"

- Maurice Freehill

"When in doubt, make a fool of yourself."

- Cynthia Heimel