Toddlers: 12 - 24 Months
wonkatalia
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What's your favorite quote
wonkatalia
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Give it to me.
Mine: "A little nonsense now and then, is cherished by the wisest men." Roald Dahl (and Willy Wonka)
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Re: What's your favorite quote
"Nothing in this world that's worth having comes easy." - Scrubs
"Sometimes the smallest things take up the most room in your heart." - Winnie the Pooh.
? A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
I have to pick ONE?
I have, like, a file folder full of 'em.
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What comes to me right now is:
"you will bring Captain Solo and the wookie to me" Luke Skywalker
and
"here's how you get 'em: he pulls a knife, you pull a gun, he puts one of yours in the hospital, you put one of his in the MORGUE....that's the Chicago way" Jim Malone
and
"you can't be serious man....YOU CANNOT BE SERIOUS!!!! That ball was on the line! Chalk flew up! It was clearly in!" (going to have to give this clip a watch on youtube again) John McEnroe
and
"the state has no business in the bedrooms of the nation" Pierre Elliott Trudeau
Destitutus ventis, Remos Adhibe- Latin Proverb that translates to "If the wind will not serve, take to the oars."
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly. What is essential is invisible to the eye.?
?You - you alone will have the stars as no one else has them...In one of the stars I shall be living. In one of them I shall be laughing. And so it will be as if all the stars were laughing, when you look at the sky at night...You - only you - will have stars that can laugh.?
The Little Prince
A Frog, A Monkey and a Ladybug
"I go to seek a Great Perhaps." Francois Rabelais.
"It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you've lived so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all." JK Rowling
"What's meant to be will always find a way."
"Optimists think the world is the best it can be, pessimists fear this is true."
?It matters not who you love,
where you love,
why you love,
when you love
or how you love,
it matters only that you love?
~ John Lennon
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If you reveal your secrets to the wind you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.
-Kahlil Gibran
also..
Dwight Schrute: In the wild, there is no health care. In the wild, health care is, "Ow, I hurt my leg. I can't run. A lion eats me and I'm dead." Well, I'm not dead. I'm the lion, you're dead.
DD2 October 2010
DS September 2012
It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities. --Albus Dumbledore
"When I was five years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down 'happy.' They told me I didn't understand the assignment, and I told them they didn't understand life." (John Lennon)
Two other good ones:
"Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut." (Ernest Hemmingway)
"I believe in music like some people believe in fairy tales." (August Rush)
?We are healthy only to the extent that our ideas are humane.? -Kurt Vonnegut
Also
"From small things Mama, big things one day come" -The Boss
Love both of those! And pretty much the entire novel.
Another one I love is:
"You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed."
I always tell my seniors at the end of the year:
"Well, I must endure the presence of two or three caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies."
(I also like to lecture them about "baobabs!")
since I just watched desperate housewives last night I have in my head 'I love you once, I love you twice, I love you more than beans & rice'
"You must realize, Harriet, knowing everything won't do you a bit of good unless you use it to put beauty in this world." (Harriet the Spy)
and
"There is no life without love. None worth having, anyway."- Hank Moody
Mine are both Eleanor Roosevelt.
"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."
"It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness."
"Be who you are and say what you feel,
Because those who mind don't matter,
And those who matter don't mind."
"The amazing thing is that every atom in your body came from a star that exploded. And, the atoms in your left hand probably came from a different star than your right hand. It really is the most poetic thing I know about physics: You are all stardust. You couldn?t be here if stars hadn?t exploded... The stars died so that you could be here today."
saw this in one of the siggys of the ladies here,, and it has been a constant reminder to me ever since:
"Comparison is the thief of joy" --Theodore Roosevelt
Funny:
"Beer is living proof that god loves us and wants us to be happy" - Ben Franklin
Serious:
"Learning without thinking is pointless, thinking without learning is dangerous" - Confucious
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It varies depending on my mood and where I am in my life. Right now, it is:
"Faithful if this wan image be, No dream his life was,?but a fight; Could any Beatrice see a lover in that anchorite?" -- Thomas William Parsons
"that's what she said"- Michael Scott, the office.
One of my originals:
"When you get your head out of your a$$ the world doesn't look like sh!t."