RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: August 11, 2013: "Catch a falling star and put it in your pocket..."

[Chorus]

Catch a falling star and put it in your pocket

Never let it fade away

Catch a falling star and put it in your pocket

Save it for a rainy day

For love may come and tap you on the shoulder some starless night

Just in case you feel you want to hold her

You'll have a pocketful of starlight

[Chorus]

For love may come and tap you on the shoulder some starless night

Just in case you feel you want to hold her

You'll have a pocketful of starlight 

(Pocketful of starlight, hm,hm,hm,hm,hm,hm)

[Chorus]

For when your troubles start multiplyin' 

And they just might

It's easy to forget them without tryin'

With just a pocketful of starlight

[Chorus]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GokqOfVvorc

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: August 8, 2013: "When a person is down in the world..."

"When a person is down in the world, an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching."

~Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1803-1873

English novelist and politician

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: August 6, 2013: "Human's are like tea bags..."

"Human's are like tea bags, we don't know our own strength until we're in hot water."

~Sister Busche

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: August 5, 2013: "Every life has a death..."

"Every life has a death, and every light a shadow.

Be content to stand in the light, and let the shadow fall where it will."

~Mary Stewart, 1542-1587

Queen of Scots

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: August 4, 2013: "Nothing is impossible..."

"Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible."

~François de la Rochefoucauld, 1613-1680

French writer

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: August 2, 2013: "Happiness is when what you think..."

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

~Mahatma Gandhi, 1869-1948

Indian nationalist leader

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: August 1, 2013: "It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion..."

"It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion;

it is easy in solitude to live after our own;

but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps the independence of solitude."

~Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1882

American poet

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: July 17, 2013: “You say I started out with practically nothing..."

“You say I started out with practically nothing, but that isn't correct. We all start with all there is, it's how we use it that makes things possible.”

~Henry Ford (1863-1947)

Founder of Ford Motor Company

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: July 16, 2013: "There are no strangers..."

"There are no strangers, only friends you haven't met yet."

~Barry Humphries aka Dame Edna, Born 1934

Australian comedian

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: May 15, 2013: "The greed of gain has no time or limit to its capaciousness..."

"The greed of gain has no time or limit to its capaciousness. Its one object is to produce and consume. It has pity neither for beautiful nature nor for living human beings. It is ruthlessly ready without a moment's hesitation to crush beauty and life."

~Rabindranath Tagore, 1861-1941

Indian poet

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: July 14, 2013: "The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being..."

"The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration."

~Pearl S. Buck, 1892-1973

American author, 1938 Nobel Prize for Literature

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: July 13, 2013: "Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle..."

"Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again."

~Dag Hammerskjold, 1905-1961

Secretary-general of the United Nations

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: July 12, 2013: "We are not proving ourselves spiritually worthy of our material progress..."

"We are not proving ourselves spiritually worthy of our material progress. We have not been neighborly, courteous, and kind upon the highway. Our lack of decency toward our fellow men is a definite black mark against us."

~Cary T. Grayson

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: July 10, 2013: "Laughter is a melody, a concert from the heart..."

"Laughter is a melody, a concert from the heart.

A tickling from the angels, creative living art.

Laughter heals and comforts, sometimes gentle-sometimes bold.

Laughter is a healing dance, performed within one's soul."

~Unknown, but greatly appreciated

http://pinterest.com/namanta/laughter-is-a-melody-a-concert-from-the-heart/

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: July 9, 2013: “You can search throughout the entire universe for someone..."

“You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.”

~Buddha

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: July 8, 2013: "Wish I had time for just one more bowl of chili."

"Wish I had time for just one more bowl of chili." 

~Alleged dying words of Kit Carson, 1809-1868

Frontier and Mountain Man

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: July 7, 2013: "I want a tricycle, and a dog who won't chew my Hot Wheels..."

"I want a tricycle, and a dog who won't chew my Hot Wheels, and a brighter future for America. I'm Ralph Wiggum, and I've been a good boy."

~Ralph Wiggum
Fictional character, "The Simpsons"

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: July 6, 2013: "A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed..."

"A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself."

~Georges Clemenceau, 1841-1929

French journalist and politician

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: July 5, 2013: "Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that..."

"Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother."

~Kahlil Gibran, 1883-1931

Lebanese painter, poet and mystic

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: July 4, 2013: "It is easy to take liberty for granted..."

"It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you."

~Author unknown, sometimes attributed to M. Grundler

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: July 3, 2013: "This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as..."

"This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave."

~Elmer Davis

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: July 2, 2013: "All we have of freedom, all we use or know..."

"All we have of freedom, all we use or know -

This our fathers bought for us long and long ago."

~Rudyard Kipling
The Old Issue, 1899

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: July 1, 2013: "For what avail the plough or sail..."

"For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail?"

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: June 30, 2013: "Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom..."

"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it."

~Thomas Paine

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: June 29, 2013: "Freedom has its life in the hearts..."

"Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed - else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die."

~Dwight D. Eisenhower

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: June 28, 2013: "Don’t pray when you feel like it..."

"Don’t pray when you feel like it.

Have an appointment with the Lord and keep it.

A man is powerful on his knees."

~Corrie Ten Boom

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: June 27, 2013: "Rest is not idleness..."

"Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass on a summer day listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is hardly a waste of time."

~John Lubbock

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: June 26, 2013: “The single greatest lesson the garden teaches is..."

“The single greatest lesson the garden teaches is that our relationship to the planet need not be zero-sum, and that as long as the sun still shines and people still can plan and plant, think and do, we can, if we bother to try, find ways to provide for ourselves without diminishing the world. ”

~Michael Pollan

Author, activist

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: June 25, 2013: "There are two paths you can go by..."

"There are two paths you can go by, but in the long run there is still time to change the road you are on."

~Led Zeppelin, 1971

"Stairway to Heaven" 

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: June 24, 2013: "Defeat never comes to any man..."

"Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it."

~Josephus Daniels, 1862-1948

American politician

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: June 20, 2013: "Intense struggle is a great teacher and strengthener..."

"Intense struggle is a great teacher and strengthener to those who learn...

and a great punisher to those who will not."

~Nathaniel Bronner, Jr.

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: June 19, 2013: “When one has tasted watermelon..."

“When one has tasted watermelon 
he knows what the angels eat.”

~Mark Twain, 1835-1910

American Humorist, Writer and Lecturer

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: June 18, 2013: "If men would consider not so much where they differ..."

"If men would consider not so much where they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world."

~Joseph Addison, 1672-1719

English politician and writer

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: June 17, 2013: “Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth..."

“Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature - the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter.”

~Rachel Carson, 1907-1964

Marine biologist and conservationist

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: June 16, 2013: "Old as she was..."

"Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes."

~Gloria Naylor

Yep!!!

~RB

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RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: June 15, 2013: "I would rather lose in a cause that I know some day will triumph..."

"I would rather lose in a cause that I know some day will triumph than to triumph in a cause that I know some day will fail."

~Wendell Lewis Willkie, 1892-1944

American lawyer and US Presidential candidate

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: June 14, 2013: “If you treat an individual as he is..."

“If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.”

~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832

Philosopher, scientist & author

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: June 12, 2013: “There is nothing I would not do..."

“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.”

~Jane Austen, 1775-1817

Novelist

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: June 11, 2013: “Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others..."

“Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter which fork you use.”

~Emily Post, 1872-1960

American author on etiquette

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: June 10, 2013: “Individual commitment to a group effort..."

“Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.”

~Vincent "Vince" Lombardi, 1913-1970

Athletic coach

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: June 9, 2013: “And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was..."

“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”

~Anaïs Nin, 1903-1977

Author and diarist

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: June 8, 2013: “The thing always happens that you believe in..."

“The thing always happens that you believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.”

~Frank Lloyd Wright, 1867-1959

Architect

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: June 7, 2013: “Success is not final, failure is not fatal..."

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: 
It is the courage to continue that counts.”

~Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965

British Statesman, Prime Minister, Author and Nobel Prize winner

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: June 6, 2013: “Nature, by example, shows us..."

“Nature, by example, shows us anything worthwhile comes over time. Anything worthwhile grows methodically, building on a strong foundation. Develop a willingness to carry on despite roadblocks.”

~Jaren L. Davis

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: June 5, 2013: “There is no such thing as a 'self-made' man..."

“There is no such thing as a 'self-made' man. We are made up of thousands of others. Everyone who has ever done a kind deed for us, or spoken one word of encouragement to us, has entered into the make-up of our character and of our thoughts, as well as our success.”

~George Burton Adams, 1851-1925

Educator and historian

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: June 4, 2013: “Start with what is right..."

“Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.”

~Peter F. Drucker, 1909-2005

Professor, writer, management consultant

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: June 3, 2013: “Someone is enjoying shade today because..."

“Someone is enjoying shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.”

~Warren Buffett

American businessman, philanthropist

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: June 2, 2013: "An essential aspect of creativity is..."

"An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail."

~Unknown

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: June 1, 2013: "There are short-cuts to happiness..."

"There are short-cuts to happiness, and dancing is one of them."

~Vicki Baum

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: May 31, 2013: “The greatest discovery of our generation is..."

“The greatest discovery of our generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. As you think, so shall you be.”

~William James, 1842-1910

Psychologist, philosopher, author

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: May 30, 2013: "Not that I speak in respect of want..."

"Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content.

I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.

I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me."

~Philippians 4:11-13(KJV)

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: May 29, 2013: “Real strength is not just a condition of one's muscle..."

“Real strength is not just a condition of one's muscle, but a tenderness in one's spirit.”

~McCallister Dodds

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: May 27, 2013: "All we have of freedom, all we use or know..."

"All we have of freedom, all we use or know -

This our fathers bought for us long and long ago."

~Rudyard Kipling, "The Old Issue" 1899

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: May 26, 2013: In Flander's Fields (by John McCrae, May 1915)

"In Flander's fields the poppies blow

Between the crosses, row on row,

That mark our place; and in the sky

The larks, still bravely singing, fly

Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago

We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,

Loved and were loved, and now we lie

In Flander's fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:

To you from failing hands we throw

The torch; be yours to hold it high.

If ye break faith with us who die

We shall not sleep, though poppies grow

In Flander's fields."

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: May 25, 2013: "Death leaves a heartache no one can heal..."

"Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, 

love leaves a memory no one can steal."

~From a tombstone in Ireland

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: May 24, 2013: "The patriot's blood is..."

"The patriot's blood is the seed of Freedom's tree."

~Thomas Campbell

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: May 23, 2013: "And I'm proud to be an American..."

"And I'm proud to be an American, where at least I know I'm free.

And I won't forget the men who died, who gave that right to me."

~Lee Greenwood

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xf8hfZuzw_A

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: May 22, 2013: “You must never be fearful about what you are doing..."

“You must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right.”

~Rosa Parks, 1913-2005
Civil rights activist

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: May 21, 2013: "I once heard that the farther you get from the cow..."

"I once heard that the farther you get from the cow, the rarer you like your meat. I know when I worked on a cattle ranch, well-done was the standard. One person said it was because you saw too many injured cows, and rare steak looks just like a bad barbed wire cut.

That could be true. 

I'm not that much of a meat eater, anyway."

~mrblanche

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: May 20, 2013: "Faith is not a delicate flower..."

"Faith is not a delicate flower which would wither away under the slightest stormy weather."

~Mahatma Gandhi

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: May 19, 2013: "Be what you is, not what you ain't..."

"Be what you is, not what you ain't,

'cause when you is what you ain't,

then you ain't what you is."

~Old Proverb

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: May 18, 2013: "I have always wished I could learn to be a potter..."

"I have always wished I could learn to be a potter. I love collecting ceramics; it would be so fulfilling to create something lovely."

~Julie Andrews

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: May 17, 2013: "If video games truly influenced children..."

"If video games truly influenced children, the last generation would have all ended up plumbers like Mario."

~Unknown

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: May 16, 2013: "How far you go in life depends on your being..."

"How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these."

~George Washington Carver

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: May 15, 2013: "We may have all come on different ships..."

"We may have all come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now."

~Martin Luther King, Jr.

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: May 14, 2013: "If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold..."

"If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world."

~Unknown

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: May 13, 2013: “I've never understood the term 'Fun Size!'"

“I've never understood the term 'Fun Size!' 

There is absolutely nothing funner about smaller portion sizes!” 

~Whitney Crandall

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: May 12, 2013: "Hello Operator, does Heaven have a phone number?"

"Hello Operator, does Heaven have a phone number?

Mommy went to Heaven, but I need her here today,

My tummy hurts and I fell down, I need her right away.

Operator can you tell me how to find her in this book, 

Is heaven in the yellow part, I don't know where to look.

I think my daddy needs her too, at night I hear him cry. 

I hear him call her name sometimes, but I really don't know why.

Maybe if I call her, she will hurry home to me. 

Is Heaven very far away, is it across the sea?

She's been gone a long, long time she needs to come home now! 

I really need to reach her, but I simply don't know how.

Help me find the number please, is it listed under "Heaven"? 

I can't read these big big words, I am only seven.

I'm sorry operator, I didn't mean to make you cry, 

Is your tummy hurting too, or is there something in your eye?

If I call my church maybe someone there will know 

Mommy said when we need help that's where we should go.

I found the number to my church tacked up upon the wall. 
Thank you operator, I'll give them a call."

~Unknown, but much appreciated for writing this

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: May 11, 2013: "Hundreds of dewdrops to greet the dawn..."

"Hundreds of dewdrops to greet the dawn,

Hundreds of bees in the purple clover,

Hundreds of butterflies on the lawn,

But only one mother the wide world over."

~George Cooper

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: May 10, 2013: "Even if you think the Big Bang created the stars..."

"Even if you think the Big Bang created the stars,

don't you wonder who sent the flowers?"

~Robert Brault

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: May 8, 2013: "What soap is to the body..."

"What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul."

~Yiddish Proverb

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: May 7, 2013: "Instead of a quote, today I'm sharing a news strip..."

Instead of a quote, today I'm sharing a news strip:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWKyYRJEcRo
Lest we should forget those who died that day, and the brave who stepped up to try to help them.
May 6, 1937

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: May 6, 2013: "Whoever dreamed up Scrabble..."

"Whoever dreamed up Scrabble had an exaggerated idea of how many seven-letter words have five i's."

~Robert Brault

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: May 5, 2013: "Respect for the rights of others means peace..."

"Respect for the rights of others means peace."

~Benito Juarez

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: May 4, 2013: "Just because Fate doesn't deal you the right cards..."

"Just because Fate doesn't deal you the right cards, it doesn't mean you should give up. It just means you have to play the cards you get to their maximum potential."

~Les Brown

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: May 3, 2013: "The weather and my mood have little connection..."

"The weather and my mood have little connection. I have my foggy and my fine days within me; my prosperity or misfortune has little to do with the matter."

~Blaise Pascal

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: May 2, 2013: "There are more dangerous humans on earth..."

"There are more dangerous humans on earth than dangerous animals."

~Anthony Douglas Williams

RB'S QUOTE OF THE WEEK: April 30, 2013: "The Word of God is truthfully faithful..."

"The Word of God is truthfully faithful, reliable and dependable. 
It is proven true and worthy in times of desperate need and our darkest hours. 
You can take them to a bank and cash them - 
BUT FIRST, you MUST believe!!!"

~Unknown

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: April 29, 2013: "The kiss of the sun for pardon..."

"The kiss of the sun for pardon,

The song of the birds for mirth,

One is nearer God's heart in a garden

Than anywhere else on earth."

~Dorothy Frances Gurney, "Garden Thoughts"

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: April 28, 2013: "Old-timers, weekends and airplane landings are alike..."

"Old-timers, weekends and airplane landings are alike. If you can walk away from them, they're successful."

~Casey Stengel 

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: April 27, 2013: “Life is not a video game..."

“Life is not a video game - there aren’t a certain number of points that send you to the next level. There is no next level. Everybody dies at the end. Game Over!!!” 

~Unknown

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: April 26, 2013: “If you really want to make a friend..."

“If you really want to make a friend, go to someone’s house and eat with him… the people who give you their food give you their heart.”

~ Cesar Chavez

RB'S QUOTE OF THE DAY: April 25, 2013: "The quality of mercy is not strain'd..."

"The quality of mercy is not strain'd, it droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven upon the place beneath. 

It is twice blest: It blesseth him that gives and him that takes."

~William Shakespeare

(The Merchant Of Venice, Act 4, Scene 1)