Thursday, November 15, 2007

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SUNSHINE

May you always walk in sunshine. May you never want for more. May Irish angels rest their wings right beside your door.

Keep your face to the sunshine and you will never see the shadow.


KITCHEN / HOME HUMOR

Eat well, laugh often, love much.

Our Kitchen is the Heart of our Home.

Today’s menu has two choices...Take it or Leave it.

Bless the cook who serves Love and Laughter.

I kiss better than I cook.

This kitchen is closed due to illness - I’m sick of cooking.

This kitchen is seasoned with Love.

Life’s two best comforts… good food and a hug.

A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand.

Countless numbers of people have eaten in this kitchen and gone on to lead normal lives.

My next house will have no kitchen - just vending machines.

Only floss the teeth you plan to keep.

Bon Appetit

Welcome to our home.

A messy kitchen is a happy kitchen, and my kitchen is delirious!

I’d rather live here in our cozy little home stenciled with fingerprints and brimming with love than alone in a sparkling mansion.

Laundry Room: Drop your drawers here.

It all comes out in the wash.

Rub-a-dub-dub. There is always laundry in the tub.

Laundry makes me a basket case.

A kitchen was made to bring family together.

God, please tell Mama that real Cowboys don't take baths, they just dust off.


HOME AND FAMILY

Love is Spoken Here.

When you’re here, you’re family.

Forever, for always, and no matter what.

Never sacrifice what you want most for what you think you want now.

HEART: Write it on your heart that the ones you love are life’s most precious gifts.

Mothers of little boys work form son up till son down!

Christ; is the center of our home, a guest at every meal, and a silent listener to every conversation.

Speak kind words, receive kind echoes.

Don’t count the days; make the days count.

Time is not measured by clocks, but moments.

Plant smiles, grow giggles, harvest love.

When the time for decision arrives, the time for preparation is past.

Too much TV will rot your brain. - Mom

Return With Honor

Families are Forever

Our gathering place

Where there is great love there are always miracles. Willa Cather

HOME: Is where our story begins

Home can be a heaven on earth

(NAME) Established (year)

Love at Home

Be our guest.

If you don’t stand for something you’ll fall for anything.

A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it. George Moor

A house is built with Boards & Beams. A home is built with Love & Dreams.

Love Begins at Home.

A happy home is filled...with Love & Laughter.

Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.

There's no place like home...

Thank you for visiting. Feel right at home.

Peace, love and joy to all who enter here.

You have a lifetime to work, but children are only young once. ~Polish Proverb

May our home be warm and our friends be many

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

Our family is raised on Love.

The greatest gift I ever received came from God... my family.

Our family’s Love is tied together with heartstrings.

Have a heart that never hardens, a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts. - Charles Dickens

Insanity is hereditary - you get it from your kids!

All that I am or hope to be I owe to My Mother. -Abraham Lincoln

Motherhood: God’s highest calling.

Mothers do have eyes in the back of their heads.

Motherhood is not for wimps.

To a Child Love Is Spelled T-I-M-E.

Sisters are joined heart to heart.

The laughter of a child is the light of a home.

Time with those one loves, is the greatest gift.

Home ...where your feet may leave...But not your heart. -Oliver Wendell Holmes

God rest your love upon this door...bless this home forever more.

Come gather at our table.

Not all those that wander are lost. - J.R. Tolkien

May the roof above us never fall in, and may those beneath it never fall out.

Dreams come true, Prayers are answered, Miracles happen.

A sister fills a place in your heart that you never knew was empty.

We are all in this together.

You are my sunshine

The best things in life aren’t things.

Fill your mind with truth, fill your life with service, fill your heart with love.

These are the days of our lives.

Together is a wonderful place to be

There is always, always, always something to be thankful for.

All My Love….All My Life.

It’s never too late to live happily ever after.

The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.

These are the days we will remember forever.

Happily Ever After: Grow old with me, the best is yet to be.

Live by the sun, love by the moon.

Sisters are fine….especially mine.

Rub-a-dub-dub, (3) kids in a tub.

Bless this home with love and laughter.

Kind words are the music of the world. ~ Frederick William Faber

May peace be with you while you stay and joy be with you on your way.

May our home radiate our love of living.

A soft answer has often been the means of breaking a hard heart. –Anonymous

Those who give love gather love

When we love . . . we grow.

Happiness is being married to your best friend.

Love is the source of life.

We all grow better with love.

Love comforteth like sunshine after rain. – Shakespeare

Laughter is the music of the heart.

Love is like a violin. The music may stop now and then, but the strings remain forever. -June Master Bacher

Always kiss me good night.

Come - Sit – Enjoy

Love generously, Praise loudly, Live fully.

Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend.

He planned it so your path crossed mine.

Al one, one cannot share life.

Today's beautiful moments are tomorrow's beautiful memories.

To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while. ~ Josh Billings

It is admirable for a man to take his son fishing, but there is a special place in heaven for the father who takes his daughter shopping. ~ John Sinor

Love like you’ll never be hurt, Sing like no one is listening, Dance as if no one is watching, Live like it’s heaven on earth.

Live well, laugh often, love much.

Children stand more in need of example than criticism. ~ Joseph Joubert

When you teach your son, you teach your son’s son.

Family – link to our past, bridge to our future.

To the world you may be just one person, but to one person you may be the world. Josephine Billings

Al l because two people fell in love…


UPLIFTING

We create our tomorrows by what we dream today.

Before you criticize someone, walk a mile in his shoes. That way if he gets angry, he’ll be a mile away and barefoot.

You cannot to a kindness too soon, for you never know when it will be too late.

If music be the food of love, play on... Shakespeare

Don’t count your years; make your years count.

Beware what you set your heart upon. For it surely shall be yours.

Live a good life. And in the end, it’s not the years in a life, it’s the life in the years. Abraham Lincoln

Character: Be true to your work, your word, and your friends. Henry David Thoreau.

Life is not measured by the amount of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.

Dance as if no one is watching, Sing as if no one is listening, and Live like it’s heaven on earth.

If you can DREAM it, you can DO it. ~Walt Disney

Dream it, Believe it, Achieve it.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

Each day comes bearing its gifts. Untie the ribbons. -Ann Ruth Schabacker

Happiness is not a place to travel to. It s a way of getting there. –Anonymous

The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.

A person's true character is revealed by what he does when no one is watching.

Nothing is impossible.

Friends are like flowers in the garden of life.

Don t try to become a man of success rather be a man of value.

Excellence is never an accident.

Always strive to have the courage of your desire.

Dreams come true, Prayers are answered, Miracles happen .

Bloom where you are planted.

Obstacles are Opportunities in Disguise. –Anonymous

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly. –Anonymous

Never believe in Never. –Anonymous

Count your blessings. –Anonymous

Whatever you are, be a good one. Abraham Lincoln

It’s easy to stand with the crowd. It takes courage to stand alone.

Nothing happens unless we first dream.

Wish it...Dream it...Do it...

We create our tomorrows by what we dream today.

Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers; pray for powers equal to your task. - Phillip Brooks

Make each day your masterpiece

Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.

We can’t all be stars but we can all twinkle.

If it is to be it’s up to me!

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us is nothing compared to what lies within us. Morrow

Don’t Dream it, be it.

A candle loses nothing of its light by lighting another candle.

The best way to get even is to forget.

Friendship is a cozy shelter from life’s rainy days.

Dreams come a size too big so that we can grow into them.

Those who say it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it.

The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.

When I look into the future it's so bright it burns my eyes. -Oprah Winfrey

Yesterday is history - tomorrow is a mystery - today is a gift; that's why we call it... The Present.

Live simply, Laugh often, Love deeply.

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. –Gandhi

Guard your thoughts, what you think... you are.

Everything in life need not be perfect to be perfect.

Many people enter our lives for just a little while, others pause and plant seeds in our hearts that bloom into flowers forever...

Be Calm - Be Strong - Be Grateful

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust our sails.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

You are defined by the choices you make. Choose wisely everyday.

Do one thing every day that makes you happy.

Every day brings a chance to live free of regret and with as much joy, fun, and laughter as you can stand. ~ Oprah Winfrey

When you get the choice to sit it out or dance, I hope you dance. ~ Lee Ann Womack

Optimism fills the sails of your ship; pessimism blows you backward.

Getting there isn’t half the fun—it’s all the fun. ~ Robert Townsend

Start off every day with a smile and get it over with. ~ W.C. Fields

Be the change you want to see in the world. Gandhi

If you pray for rain... be prepared to deal with some mud.

Laughter is... Sunshine in the heart and wings on the soul.

Live one day at a time. Live each day to the fullest. Laugh heartily, love deeply, pray daily.

Nothing great in this world has ever been accomplished without passion. ~ Georg Wilhelm

Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I accomplish ~ Michelangelo

The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. ~ Walter Bagebot

Do what you love and success will follow.

You only deserve what you appreciate.

Whether you think you can or whether you think you can't, you're right. Henry Ford

You see things; and you say 'Why?' But I drean things that never were; and I say 'Why not?' George Bernard Shaw

Within each of us lies the power of our consent to health and sickness, to riches and poverty, to freedom and to slavery. It is we who control these, and not another. Richard Bach (Illusions)

Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up. Jesse Jackson

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. Ralph Waldo Emerson

A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Lewis Carroll

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. George Bernard Shaw

The journey is the reward. Chinese Proverb

People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.


PATRIOTIC

AMERICA : God Shed His Grace on Thee

Return with Honor.

God Bless America.

Freedom isn't free.

Freedom is doing what you know is right without fear. Freedom is not the right to do as you please, but the liberty to do as you ought.

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves. -Abraham Lincoln

We will not waiver, we will not tire; we will not falter; and we will not fail. Peace and freedom will prevail – George W. Bush

America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense, human rights invented America. ~ Jimmy Carter

There was never a good war or a bad peace. Benjamin Franklin

It is a fabulous country…it is the only place where miracles not only happen, but where they happen all the time. ~ Thomas Wolfe

... ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.

John F. Kennedy

A politician will do anything to keep his job even become a patriot.

William Randolph Hearst

Patriotism is easy to understand in America; it means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.

Calvin Coolidge

Patriotism is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.

Adlai Stevenson

A man's feet must be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.

George Santayana

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.

George Bernard Shaw

Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land.

Walter Scott



LOVE
Love doesn't make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.

Franklin P. Jones

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.

Plato


Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost


If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

Sir James M. Barrie


Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

Henry Louis Mencken

Love is a friendship set to music.

E. Joseph Cossman

True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.

Erich Segal

Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.

Voltaire

They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

William Shakespeare

Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Lord Byron

Champions keep playing until they get it right.

Billie Jean King



RELIGIOUS

Return with Honor.

God is Good….All the Time.

Let us be silent that we may hear the whisper of God.

Why worry when you can pray?

Every Good and Perfect Gift is from Above.

Never sacrifice what you want most for what you think you want now.

Dreams come true, Prayers are answered, Miracles happen.

When the time for decision arrives, the time for preparation is past.

Choose the Right

Families are Forever

Because I have been given much, I too must give.

Stand a little Taller

Be Grateful - Be smart - Be Involved - Be Clean - Be True - Be Positive - Be Humble - Be Still - be Prayerful

Just do it!

Home can be a heaven on earth

Love at Home

I hope they call me on a mission

There is beauty all around, when there’s love at home.

Count your many blessings

I am a child of God

If you don’t stand for something you’ll fall for anything.

Faith is like a seed…if you plant it, it will grow.

I’ll seek the Lord early while in my youth, and he will help me to know the truth.

Love is Spoken Here.

Keep the commandments

Kindness begins with me.

Did you think to pray?

With God all things are possible

The brightest love shines from up above.

Bless this home with love and laughter.

Prayers go up, blessings come down.

God grant me the Serenity to accept the things I cannot change Courage to change the things I can, and the Wisdom to know the difference.

Love is patient, Love is kind, Love never fails.

Never forget who you are . . . Whom you serve.

Please be patient . . . God isn’t finished with me yet.

I know God won't give me anything I can't handle. I just wish he didn't trust me so much. -Mother Teresa

Good friends are like angels, you don't have to see them to know they are there.

I can do all things through Christ...

To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven.

Lord, keep your arm around my shoulder and your hand over my mouth.

Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep...

Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.

Give us this day our daily bread.

Prayer does not change God, but changes him who prays. ~ Soren Kierkegaard

In the day of prosperity we have many refuges to resort to; in the day of adversity, only One. ~ Horatius Bonar

As for me and my house we will serve the Lord. ~ Joshua 24:15

Christ is not valued at all unless He is valued above all. ~ St. Augustine

There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience. ~ French proverb

God didn’t call us to be successful, just faithful. ~ Mother Theresa

It is only by forgetting yourself that you draw near to God. ~ Henry David Thoreau

Life is fragile. Handle it with prayer.

We’ll bring the world His truth.

God doesn’t call the qualified, but qualifies those whom He calls

A man never stands taller than when he is on his knees.

It is easy to stand with the crowd. It takes courage to stand alone.

Fill your mind with truth, fill your life with service, fill your heart with love.

Faith sees the invisible, believes the incredible, and receives the impossible.

Christ is the center of our home; a guest at every meal, a silent listener to every conversation.


C.S. LEWIS

"The Moral Law tells us the tune we have to play: our instincts are merely the keys..."

--Mere Christianity

"The proper rewards are not simply tacked on to the activity for which they are given, but are the activity itself in consummation."

--The Weight of Glory

"You and I have need of the strongest spell that can be found to wake us from the evil enchantment of worldliness."

--The Weight of Glory

"Perfect humility dispenses with modesty."

--The Weight of Glory

"If God is satisfied with the work, the work may be satisfied with itself."

--The Weight of Glory

"When humans should have become as perfect in voluntary obedience as the inanimate creation is in its lifeless obedience, then they will put on its glory, or rather that greater glory of which Nature is only the first sketch."


"Badness is only spoiled goodness."

"Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness."


GARDEN

Don’t let the weeds grow around your dreams

Take thyme to smell the flowers

Bless These Blooms

What you sow is what you grow

Sow Kindness, gather Love

Friends are the flowers that bloom in life’s garden

No rain No rainbows

A day without flowers is like a heart without memories.

Bloom where you are planted.


SPORTS

To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift. Steve Prefontaine

Coaches who start listening to fans wind up sitting next to them. ~ Johnny Kerr

Sports is the only entertainment where, no matter how many times you go back, you never know the ending. ~ Neil Simon

Brains are soft, Helmets are hard. Use both.

Dreams come true, Prayers are answered, Miracles happen.

A tie game is like kissing your sister. ~ J.C.Humes

Every champion was once a rookie.

The best thing about baseball is that you can do something about yesterday tomorrow. ~ Manny Trillo

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward. ~ Vernon Law

Don’t forget to swing hard in case you hit the ball. ~ Woodie Held

Winning isn’t everything—it’s the only thing. ~ Vince Lombardi

Don’t allow the fear of striking out prevent you from playing the game.

It’s not how big you are, it’s how big you play.

To step into the game is like stepping onto a battlefield….knowing, that whatever the outcome, I will have given EVERYTHING I HAVE.

For the love of the game.

Sports do not build character; they reveal it.

Winning isn’t everything, but the desire to win is.

There are no shortcuts to anyplace worth going.

While most are dreaming of success, winners wake up and work hard to achieve it.

Do what you love, and success will follow.


GOLF

If I can’t be seen I’m on the green.

Golf is Tee-Riffic.

Golf is a ball no matter how you slice it.

I can still drive 300 yards... in my golf cart.

It takes a lot of balls to golf the way I do.

Now that I’m older I can hit the ball out of sight.

Born to golf. Forced to work.


SUCCESS

What you are is determined by what you do when no one is watching.

Journey: The bend in the road is not the end of the road, unless you refuse to take the turn.

Hard work is the price we pay for success.

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles by it.

Never sacrifice what you want most for what you think you want now.

Dreams come true, Prayers are answered, Miracles happen.

If you can DREAM it, you can DO it. ~Walt Disney

Dream it, Believe it, Achieve it.

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it. ~ Margaret Thatcher

Individual commitment to a group effort—that is what makes teamwork, a company work, a society work, a civilization work. ~ Vince Lombardi

Your attitude determines your altitude in life. ~ Collage

No one ever attains success by simply doing what is required of him. ~ Charles Kendall Adams

Build on your past success, believe in your own abilities, have the courage to stay in the game when others suggest you quit, and always, always finish strong! ~ Debbie Phillips

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure. ~ Colin Powell

Success is not measured by how much power, influence, or money you have, but by how happy you are in the life you have chosen to live. ~ Patrick Hoss

You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to be a follower, too. ~ Sam Rayburn

He who never made a mistake - never made a discovery. -Samuel Smiles

Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in. -Bill Eardley

No rain, no rainbow.

Teachers Make a Difference.

If you want children to excel, let them hear all the nice things you say about them to others. –

Educating the mind without educating the soul is no education at all. Aristotle

Truth is not always popular but it is always right.

No one knows what he can do until he tries.

You only deserve what you appreciate.

Each day is a rough draft of life's script.


BABY/CHILDREN

A wee bit of heaven drifted down from above, a handful of happiness, a heart full of love.

Snips and snails and puppy dog tails, that's what little boys are made of.

Sugar and spice and everthing nice, that's what little girls are make of.

Worth the wait.

With every little baby’s birth God sends his love and joy to earth.

Heaven’s Gift.

I’m a Dream Come True.

Special Things Come in Small Packages.

A bundle of joy...our little boy (or girl).

Shhh... Baby’s Dreaming...

You’ve got the cutest little baby face.

The angels danced the day you were born.

Sweet Dreams, Sleep Tight, We Love You, Good night.

Parenthood is a heir raising experience.

Small wonders bring special joys!

Sent from above our sweet bundle of love.

A baby brings a little bit of heaven down to earth.

Every time a child is born...the world lights up with new possibilities.

Reach for the stars because mom and dad will catch you.

Once upon a time...they lived happily ever after.

Twinkle, twinkle, little star..do you know how loved you are?

Sweet Dreams, Sleep Tight, We Love You, Good night.

And on the day you were born the clouds parted, and an Angel fell from the sky

When you teach your son, you teach your son's son. ~The Talmud

Sisters are joined heart to heart.

Sister by chance, friends by choice.

Lord, please tell Mama that real cowboys don’t take baths – they just dust off!

You have a lifetime to work, but children are only young once. ~Polish Proverb

Sweet dreams…till sunbeams find you

A dream is a wish your heart makes!