Quotes February 02, 2023

If you want to fly, you have to give up what weighs you down.
Roy T. Bennett – 1939-2014 – Author
 
 
 
 
Being negative only makes a difficult journey more difficult, you may be given a cactus, but you don’t have to sit on it.
Joyce Meyer – American Author-Speaker
 
 
 
 
A wise old chef once told me: Wait till peas are in season, then use frozen.
Fergus Henderson,
chef
 
 
 
 
“Keep close to Nature’s heart… and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.”
John Muir
 
 
 
 
“When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.” –
Oscar Wilde
 
 
 
 
Strange to see how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody.
Samuel Pepys,
diarist, naval administrator
 
 
 
 
Every exit is an entry somewhere else.
Tom Stoppard – Playwriter-Screenwriter
 
 
 
 
“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
 
 
 
 
“Be silent, if you choose, but when it is necessary, speak—and speak in such a way that people will remember it.”
Mozart
 
 
 
 
“To be seen in this life, truly observed without judgment, is what it feels like to be loved.”
Cicely Tyson
 
 
 
 
“You dance love, and you dance joy, and you dance dreams.”
Gene Kelly
 
 
 
 
“Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt
 
 
 
 
“A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.”
Jackie Robinson
 
 
 
 
“Life is a magical thing.”
Laurel Clark, astronaut and medical doctor aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia
 
 
 
 
You’re right, Big Bird. It’ll never be the same around here without him. But you know something? We can all be very happy that we had a chance to be with him and to know him and to love him a lot when he was here.
Bob McGrath,
actor, musician
1932-2022