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#1

“If television's a babysitter, the Internet is a drunk librarian who won't shut up.”
― Dorothy Gambrell, Cat and Girl Volume I

tags: internet, librarian, library, metaphor, television

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#2

“Teaching kids how to feed themselves and how to live in a community responsibly is the center of an education.”
― Alice Waters

tags: children, community, education, farming, food

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#3

“My charge, then, in putting down my pen, and giving over this work to posterity, is this: Take the time. Take the time to preserve the stories, the photographs, the small mementos that mean so much. This is your legacy to future generations. Give it the attention it deserves. Your children and your grandchildren will thank you for it.”
― Laurence Overmire, One Immigrant's Legacy: The Overmyer Family in America, 1751-2009: A Biographical Record of Revolutionary War Veteran Capt. John George Overmire and His Descendants

tags: family-history, future-generations, genealogy, heirlooms, legacy, mementos, photographs, posterity, preserve, stories

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#4

“Here is your country. Cherish these natural wonders, cherish the natural resources, cherish the history and romance as a sacred heritage, for your children and your children's children. Do not let selfish men or greedy interests skin your country of its beauty, its riches or its romance.”
― Theodore Roosevelt

tags: conservation, environment, morals, nationalism, patriotism, politics, values

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#5

“If you cannot read the beautiful things that have happened in someone's life, why should you care about their sadness?”
― Chris Cleave, Little Bee

tags: immigration, refugees

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#6

“Guys care about sports teams. I'm not talking about simply rooting; I'm talking about a relationship that guys develop, a commitment to a sport team that guys take way more seriously than, for example, wedding vows.”
― Dave Barry, Dave Barry's Complete Guide to Guys

tags: humor, sports

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#7

“We old athletes carry the disfigurements and markings of contests remembered only by us and no one else. Nothing is more lost than a forgotten game.”
― Pat Conroy

tags: athletes, basketball, game, sports, sports-inspirational, sportsmanship

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#8

“With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.”
― William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

tags: birthday, happiness, laughter, shakespeare

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#9

“Birthdays were made for going wild over the people we think are amazing.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year

tags: birthday, birthdays, happy-birthday, my-birthday, richelle, richelle-e-goodrich, richelle-goodrich

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#10

“Besides shopping at garage sales, I love hosting garage sales. Every year my mom and I dig through our houses and find a bunch of crap (I mean really terrific stuff) to sell so we can earn some money so we can go back out and buy some more crap (I mean really terrific stuff) that we’ll use for a bit and then turn around and garage-sale in a couple of years. It’s the circle of life suburban style.”
― Jen Mann, People I Want to Punch in the Throat: Competitive Crafters, Drop-Off Despots, and Other Suburban Scourges

tags: garage-sale, junk, suburbia

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#11

“It is frightfully difficult to know much about the fairies, and almost the only thing for certain is that there are fairies wherever there are children.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens

tags: barrie, children, fairies, fairy, fantasy, imagination, kensington-gardens, london, love, magic, park, peter-pan

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#12

“Please, no matter how we advance technologically, please don't abandon the book. There is nothing in our material world more beautiful than the book."

(Acceptance speech, National Book Award 2010 (Nonfiction), November 17, 2010)”
― Patti Smith

tags: books, materialism, musicians, pure-awesome, technology

717 likes

#13

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

tags: read, readers, reading, reading-books

35554 likes

#14

“Sometimes, some lies that spoken with high confidence
could be more receptive than facts that spoken with doubt.”
― Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity

tags: confidence, doubt, facts, lies, life, receptive, speak, truth

76 likes

#15

“Let the sun go down on you like King Harold at the battle of Hastings — fighting gloriously. Maybe a loser but what a loser! Greater in defeat than the conqueror. Certainly not a coward that rusted out lurking in his tent.”
― Zora Neale Hurston, A Life in Letters

tags: battle, defeat, losing, winners-mentality, winning-and-losing, zora-neale-hurston

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#16

“We need cats to need us. It unnerves us that they do not. However, if they do not need us, they nonetheless seem to love us.”
― Jeffery Masson

tags: cats, humans, jeffery, masson

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#17

“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

tags: authors, books, literature, reading, writing

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#18

“A book is a dream that you hold in your hands."

(As quoted on BookRiot, June 18, 2013)”
― Neil Gaiman

tags: books, dreams

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#19

“Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.”
― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

tags: books, reading

16515 likes

#20

“A starry sky is something that touches your soul. Our civilization's religion, philosophy, science, art and literature all have roots with our views of the heavens, and we are now losing this with consequences we cannot fully know. What happens when we cannot be inspired by the night sky?”
― Alisha Sevigny, Summer Constellations

tags: night-sky, starry-sky

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#21

“You can dance in the storm. Don't wait for the rain to be over before because it might take too long. You can can do it now. Wherever you are, right now, you can start, right now; this very moment.”
― Israelmore Ayivor

tags: act, action, dance, dare, do-it, do-it-now, don-t-give-up, don-t-quit, dream, excuses, go, move, never-give-up, now, potential, procrastination, rain, right-now, start, storm, this-moment, today

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#22

“Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet.”
― Roger Miller

tags: rain

341 likes

#23

“On Writing Poetry: Take everyday words beyond everyday talent and write them alive.”
― C.J. Heck

tags: poetry, write-alive, writing, writing-poetry

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#24

“People leave imprints on our lives, shaping who we become in much the same way that a symbol is pressed into the page of a book to tell you who it comes from. Dogs, however, leave paw prints on our lives and our souls, which are as unique as fingerprints in every way.”
― Ashly Lorenzana

tags: animals, bonding, companionship, dogs, experience, friendship, identity, learning, life, love, loyalty, personality, unique

171 likes

#25

“And on the subject of burning books: I want to congratulate librarians, not famous for their physical strength or their powerful political connections or their great wealth, who, all over this country, have staunchly resisted anti-democratic bullies who have tried to remove certain books from their shelves, and have refused to reveal to thought police the names of persons who have checked out those titles.

So the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House or the Supreme Court or the Senate or the House of Representatives or the media. The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country

tags: america, books, politics

4401 likes

#26

“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
― Arthur C. Clarke, Profiles of the Future: An Inquiry into the Limits of the Possible

tags: magic, science, technology, wonder

1750 likes

#27

“Fishing is much less about the fishing, and much more about the time alone with your kid, away from the hustle and bustle of the everyday.”
― Dan Pearce, Single Dad Laughing: The Best of Year One

tags: children, dads, fathers, fishing, outdoors, quality-time

6 likes

#28

“Being rich is not about how much money you have or how many homes you own; it's the freedom to buy any book you want without looking at the price and wondering if you can afford it.”
― John Waters, Role Models

tags: books, wealth

771 likes

#29

“We were all different shapes, sizes, and colors. But, we were all kindergartners and we all were excited.
_Banicia

Mr. Shipman;s Kindergarten Chronicles: The First Day of School”
― Terance Shipman, Mr. Shipman's Kindergarten Chronicles: December Celebrations: December Holidays

tags: back-to-school, children-books, kindergarten, parents, school-preschool

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#30

“Not all those who wander are lost.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

tags: bilbo, journey, lost, quest, travel, wander

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