A Writer's Quotations

         

This is a very random picture but I really like pictures on posts and this was the only one I had and plus I thought it was really cute! 

"You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we're doing it." 

~Neil Gaiman~

"Writers don't write from experience, although many are hesitant to admit that they don't... If you wrote from experience, you'd get maybe one book, maybe three poems. Writers write from empathy." 

~Nikki Giovanni~

"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read."

~Groucho Marx~ 

"Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it." 

~C. S. Lewis~ 

Well bye, 

Rachel 

I can realat to that

"I cannot live without books." 

~Thomas Jefferson~ 

 

I've never really cared for Thomas Jefferson because he didn't like Patrick Henry and Patrick Henry is kind of my "Historical Hero" if there is such a thing (?).
But if he said this, well.... maybe he's an O.K. guy. I mean really, who can live without books? They are AMAZING!  

Well Bye, 

®achel™

What is Love?

Well Bye,

 ®achel™

Let them be your friends

“If you cannot read all your books, at any rate handle, or as it were, fondle them—peer into them, let them fall open where they will, read from the first sentence that arrests the eye, set them back on the shelves with your own hands, arrange them on your own plan so that you at least know where they are. Let them be your friends; let them be your acquaintances.”  

Winston Churchill

And when you can't do a blog post, at any rate steel something someone else said and post that instead. *Smile* 

Well Bye, 

 ®achel™

The Snowflake Man

 

"Perhaps no natural phenomenon occurring upon the earth is more of an object lesson, or portrays more fully both the power and majesty, and the gentleness of the Creator, than does a wide spread snowstorm."

~Wilson Bentley~

 

I like to call him The Snowflake Man. I just read about Wilson Bentley in school and I really liked him. 

I'll give you the 'text' vision of his life so you can be smarter today than you were yesterday and you still want get bored with me. (Unless you already know about him in which case.... I'm glad for you!)

  1. At 15 Wilson Bentley's mother gave him an old microscope. 

  2. On his 17th birthday his family gave him a camera. (At the time the camera could only be bought with an entire year's pay for a farmer and his father was a farmer. I think it sounds like Wilson had a really sweet Dad. Just like me!)

  3. When he was 19 Wilson became the first person to photograph a snowflake. 

  4. In an article he wrote Wilson Bentley declared his belief that no two snowflakes were the same. 

  5. Before his death he published his book "Snow Crystals" and it is still in print today.





Well Bye,

 ®achel™

Bewildered

"I cannot say as ever I was lost but I was bewildered once fore three days."

~Daniel Boone~

About a time when he was nineteen.

Well Bye, 

 ®achel™

Photo from "George Washington's World" 

 

I didn't get to do a Valentines post....

"You aren't loved because you are valuable. You are valuable because God loves you." 

~Unknown~

"God's love is unconditional. Be sure that yours is too!" 

~Unknown~

"What's earth with all its art, verses, music, worth compared with love, found, gained, and kept?" 

~Robert Browning~ 

"Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence." 

~Sydney Smith~ 

I didn't end up doing a post on Valentines' Day so this will have to count as a late post. 

Well Bye, 

®achel™

To Wisely Waste My Days

 

 

"To awaken each morning with a smile brightening my face; to greet the day with reverence for the opportunities it contains; to approach my work with a clean mind; to hold ever before me, even in the doing of little things, the Ultimate Purpose toward which I am working; to meet men and women with laughter on my lips and love in my heart; to be gentle, kind, and courteous through all the hours; to approach the night with weariness that ever woos sleep and the joy that comes from work well done- this is how I desire to waste wisely my days." 

~Thomas Dekker~ 

1572-1632 

Well Bye,
®achel™

Look at this day...

"Look at this day...For yesterday is but a dream, and tomorrow is only a vision... but today well-lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope." 

~Author Unknown~

Well Bye, 

®achel™

What Teddy Said

"When you play, play hard; when you work don't play at all." 

~Theodore Roosevelt~ 

 

"In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The next best thing you can do is the wrong thing. the worst thing you can do is nothing." 

~Theodore Roosevelt~ 

"It is not the critic who counts. Not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause. Who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement; and who, at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat. "

~Theodore Roosevelt~ 

"Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat." 

~Theodore Roosevelt~

I found in a boy scout quote book and really liked them. Loved them.

Well Bye,
®achel™

Just the first Act ot the Drama

Day 365

“The American war is over; but this [is] far from being the case with the American revolution, on the contrary, nothing but the first act of the drama is closed. It remains yet to establish and perfect our new forms of government, and to prepare the principles, morals, and manners of our citizens for these forms of government after they are established and brought to perfection.”  

~Benjamin Rush~

This quotations seemed fitting to close this very long process with. I have done 365 day; this was a leap year but I did not do a post on Christmas. I hope you understood most of the quotations and liked some of them. Patrick Henry is probably my favorite concerning politics; Thomas Jefferson for something new and fun; John and Abigail Adams for sweet and sappy; And Benjamin Franklin for just saying the most stuff all around. 

I still love quotations. This did not kill my love for them and you will see a lot more in the near future, although not everyday.  

Happy new year! 

Well Bye, 

®achel™  

Of The People

Day 362

"Government is instituted for the common good; for the protection, safety, prosperity and happiness of the people; and not for the profit, honor, or private interest of any one man, family, or class of men: Therefore the people alone have an incontestable, unalienable, and indefeasible right to institute government; and to reform, alter, or totally change the same, when their protection, safety, prosperity and happiness require it."

~John Adams~ 

 

 

 

Any Kindness

Day 361

"I expect to pass through this world but once. Any goo therefore that I can do, of any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again." 

~William Penn~ 

William Penn is not in the time period but he was close enough and I don't guess anyone will care but me.


Well Bye,
®achel™

Liberty = Freedom of Speech

Day 360

"Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech."

~Benjamin Franklin~

The Truth is...

Day 357

"The truth is, all might be free if they valued freedom, and defended it as they ought."

~Samuel Adams~ 

The True Touchstone

Day 356

"It was remarked yesterday that a numerous representation was necessary to obtain the confidence of the people. This is not generally true. The confidence of the people will easily be gained by a good administration. This is the true touchstone."

~Alexander Hamilton~ 

 

Respect of the Constitution and Laws

Day 354

"If it be asked, What is the most sacred duty and the greatest source of our security in a Republic? The answer would be, An inviolable respect for the Constitution and Laws – the first growing out of the last. [...] A sacred respect for the constitutional law is the vital principle, the sustaining energy of a free government."

 ~Thomas Jefferson~ 

 

 

 

How many

Day 353

"How many observe Christ’s birth-day! How few, his precepts! O! ’tis easier to keep Holidays than Commandments."

~Benjamin Franklin~ 

Discover the Meaning...

Day 345

"The first and governing maxim in the interpretation of a statute is to discover the meaning of those who made it."

~James Wilson~ 

Fiction/History

Day 343

"Some of the most agreeable moments of my life have been spent in reading works of imagination which have this advantage over history that the incidents of the former may be dressed in the most interesting form, while those of the latter must be confined to fact. They cannot therefore present virtue in the best and vice in the worst forms possible, as the former may."

~Thomas Jefferson~