poems for sisters birthday

There will be times when you will be in the field without a camera. And, you will see the most glorious sunset or the most beautiful scene that you have ever witnessed. Don't be bitter because you can't record it. Sit down, drink it in, and enjoy it for what it is! ~DeGriff



People tell me that the countryside must always be stupid and backward, and I get angry, as if it were said that only townspeople had immortal souls, and that it was only in the city that the flame of divinity breathed into the first men had an unobscured glow. ~George William Russell



I don't see how an article of clothing can be indecent. A person, yes. ~Robert A. Heinlein



Half the promises people say were never kept, were never made. ~Edgar Watson Howe



As if you could kill time without injuring eternity. ~Henry David Thoreau, "Economy," Walden, 1854



A man's wife has more power over him than the state has. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journals



I recently became a Christian Scientist. It was the only health plan I could afford. ~Betsy Salkind



To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short. ~Confucius, Analects To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short. ~Confucius, Analects



For all of its faults, it gives most hardworking people a chance to improve themselves economically, even as the deck is stacked in favor of the privileged few. Here are the choices most of us face in such a system: Get bitter or get busy. ~Bill O'Reilly, about capitalism



A baby is born with a need to be loved - and never outgrows it. ~Frank A. Clark



Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives. ~William Dement



When written in Chinese the word "crisis" is composed of two characters - one represents danger and the other represents opportunity. ~John F. Kennedy, address, 12 April 1959



Vacation: a period of travel and relaxation when you take twice the clothes and half the money you need. ~Author Unknown



Remember, if you smoke after sex you're doing it too fast. ~Woody Allen



Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother. ~Kahlil Gibran



Why does it take a minute to say hello and forever to say goodbye? ~Author Unknown



You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man. ~Frederick Douglass



Remedy it, or welcome it: a wise man's only two choices. ~Terri Guillemets



Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement. ~Christopher Fry



Those who believe money can do everything are frequently prepared to do everything for money. ~Author Unknown