"Baseball is the only place in life where a sacrifice is really appreciated." 

 

 

~Author Unknown

 

“What we have once enjoyed we can never lose.

All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.”

 

-Helen Keller

 

 

First Snow-Fall.

The sun that dim November day
Had failed to kiss the clouds away
From quiet Nature's furrowed face,
Where autumn tears had left their trace.
 
And, by and by, on fields of brown
The feathered flakes came floating down
From Heaven to this world of ours,
Like spirits of departed flowers.
 
And fast and faster through the night,
Till Morn arose on meadows white,
And o'er the landscape lightly stepped
Where tired Nature, smiling, slept.

^__Albert Bigelow Paine

 

"You can't look at a sleeping cat and feel tense."

- Jane Pauley

 

"Happiness is eating homemade apple cider cinnamon sugar donuts with your kids. YUM!"

- Me

 

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

- unknown

 

It is not your aptitude, but your attitude that determines your altitude.

- Zig Ziglar 

"Never underestimate a child's ability to get into more trouble."

-Martin Mull

 

Baseball is an allegorical play about America, a poetic, complex, and subtle play of courage, fear, good luck, mistakes, patience about fate, and sober self-esteem. 

~Saul Steinberg

 

 

"A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawn mower is broken."

- James Dent

 

 

 

-Friedrich Nietzsche

 

  To Laugh often and much.  To appreciate beauty.  To find the best in others.  To leave the world a bit better.  To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived.  This is to have succeeded..."

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

 All children are artists.  The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

- Pablo Picasso

 

I've learned there are three things you don't discuss with people: religion, politics and the Great Pumpkin.

- Linus Van Pelt
 

 

Only when your consciousness is totally focused on the moment you are in can you receive whatever gift, lesson, or delight that moment has to offer.

-Barbara De Angelis

 

"As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them."   

-John Fitzgerald Kennedy

 

Seize the time... live now, make now always the most precious time.  Now will never come again."

  - Capt. Jean Luc Picard  

 

 

 

"I purr, therefore I am."

 

- Anonymous

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In the final analysis it is not what you do for your children but what you have taught them to do for themselves that will make them successful human beings.

- Ann Landers