"Americans by birth, Minnesotans by the grace of God."
- Unknown
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Showing posts with label *Northestars. Show all posts
Today's Quote (8-13-09):
"A hundred years from now it will not matter what my bank account was, the sort of house I lived in, or the kind of car I drove. But the world may be different, because I was important in the life of a boy." - Forrest Whitcraft
Today's Quote (5-16-09):
"A human life, I think, should be well rooted in some spot of a native land, where it may get the love of tender kinship for the face of the Earth, for the labors men go forth to, for the sounds and accents that haunt it, for whatever will give that early home a familiar unmistakable difference amidst the future widening of knowledge." - George Elliot
Today's Quote (3-22-09):
(For Bethie - In Memoriam)
"I am a being of Heaven and Earth, of thunder and lightning, of rain and wind, of the galaxies, of the suns and the stars and the void through which they travel. The essence of nature, eternal, divine that all men seek to know to hear, known as the great illusion time, and the all-prevailing atmosphere. And now you know my background." - eden ahbez
Tape recording declaring how he recited one of his poems in response to a question "What is your background?" (1992)
Today's Quote (3-14-09):
"Give me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference." - Saint Augustine
(The "Serenity Prayer")
Today's Quote (3-11-09):
"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I've lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do."
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Today's Quote (2-28-09):
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." - Mark Twain
Today's Quote (2-9-09):
"Love is the only bow on Life's dark cloud.
It is the morning and the evening star.
It shines upon the babe, and sheds its radiance on the quiet tomb.
It is the mother of art, inspirer of poet, patriot and philosopher.
It is the air and light of every heart -- builder of every home, kindler of every fire on every hearth.
It was the first to dream of immortality.
It fills the world with melody -- for music is the voice of love.
Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to Joy, and makes royal kings and queens of common clay.
It is the perfume of that wondrous flower, the heart, and without that sacred passion, that divine swoon, we are less than beasts; but with it, earth is heaven, and we are gods."
- Robert G. Ingersoll
"Orthodoxy" (1884)
Today's Quote (1-15-09):
"Here I stand. I can do no other. God help me.
Amen." - Martin Luther (1521)
("Hier stehe ich. Ich kann nicht anders. Gott helfe mir. Amen.")
Today's Quote (1-14-09):
"Sweet are the uses of adversity;"
- Shakespeare, As You Like It,
Act 2, Scene 1, lines 12 through 14(and continues . . . "Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous,
Wears yet a precious jewel in his head." Duke Senior is alluding to the mythical Toadstone.)
Today's Quote (1-13-09):
"In the Absence of Light, Darkness Prevails."
- Unknown
(In Latin: "In Absentia Luci, Tenebrae Vincunt.")
Today's Quote (12-18-08):
"The best introduction to astronomy is to think of the nightly heavens as a little lot of stars belonging to one’s own homestead." - George Eliot
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