Scrapbook quotes

I begin to love this creature,
and to anticipate her birth
as a fresh twist to a knot,
which I do not wish to untie.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft

I gained 80 pounds for my pregnancy so this is like my coming out party.
~ Cindy Margolis

Life is always a rich and steady time when you are waiting for something to happen or to hatch.
~ E.B. White, Charlotte's Web

Life is magic, the way nature works seems to be quite magical.
~ Jonas Salk

Making a decision to have a child-it's momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.
~ Elizabeth Stone

Pregnant women! They had that weird frisson, an aura of magic that combined awkwardly with an earthy sense of duty. Mundane, because they were nothing unique on the suburban streets; ethereal because their attention was ever somewhere else. Whatever you said was trivial. And they had that preciousness which they imposed wherever they went, compelling attention, constantly reminding you that they carried the future inside, its contours already drawn, but veiled, private, an inner secret.
~ Ruth Morgan

The most important thing she'd learned over the years was that there was no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.
~ Jill Churchill

There are three reasons for breast-feeding: the milk is always at the right temperature; it comes in attractive containers; and the cat can't get it.
~ Irena Chalmers

Think of stretch marks as pregnancy service stripes.
~ Joyce Armor

What's that on the telly?
It's an angel sent from God%u2026
Growing in my belly%u2026
Like a sweet pea in a pod!
~ Melissa Hatcher

A baby is something you carry inside you for nine months, in your arms for three years and in your heart till the day you die.
~ Mary Mason

A grand adventure is about to begin.
~ Winnie the Pooh

A great joy is coming.
~ Author Unknown

A mother's joy begins when new life is stirring inside%u2026 when a tiny heartbeat is heard for the very first time, and a playful kick reminds her that she is never alone.
~ Author Unknown

All the time we wondered and wondered, who is this person coming/growing/turning/floating/swimming deep, deep inside.
~ Crescent Dragonwagon

Before you were born I carried you under my heart. From the moment you arrived in this world until the moment I leave it, I will always carry you in my heart.
~ Mandy Harrison

Before you were conceived I wanted you
Before you were born I loved you
Before you were here an hour I would die for you
This is the miracle of Mother's Love.
~ Maureen Hawkins

Everything grows rounder and wider and weirder, and I sit here in the middle of it all and wonder who in the world you will turn out to be.
~ Carrie Fisher

Feeling fat last nine months but the joy of becoming a mom lasts forever.
~ Nikki Dalton

You'll never know how much I love you...not until the son becomes a father.
~ Uknown

A baby is a blank check made payable to the human race.
~ Barbara Christine Seifert

A brand new little baby boy, to fill our lives and hearts with joy.
~ Unknown

A brand new little baby boy, to fill our lives and hearts with joy.
~ Unknown

A child fills a place in your heart that you never knew was empty
~ Unknown

A new baby is like the beginning of all things - wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. ~ Eda J LeShan

A perfect summer day to a little boy means, a scrape on the knee, mud on his face and collecting bugs in garden.
~ Uknown

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

The mystery of life,
so sacred and sweet-
The giver of joy
so deep and complete
~ Uknown

"In the eyes of a child....there is joy, there is laughter.... there is hope, there is trust, a chance to shape the future....
~ Air Supply

"In the sheltered simplicity of the first days after a baby is born, one sees again the magical closed circle, the miraculous sense of two people existing only for each other."
~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh

"Maternal love, like an orange tree, buds and blossoms and bears at once. When a woman puts her finger for the first time into the tiny hand of her baby and feels that helpless clutch which tightens her very heartstrings, she is born again with her newborn child." ~ Kate Douglas Wiggin

"You'll never know how much I love you....not until the son becomes a father." ~ Uknown

A baby is a blank check made payable to the human race.
~ Barbara Christine Seifert

A brand new little baby boy, to fill our lives and hearts with joy.
~ Unknown

A brand new little baby boy, to fill our lives and hearts with joy.
~ Unknown

A child fills a place in your heart that you never knew was empty
~ Unknown

A new baby is like the beginning of all things - wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities.
~ Eda J LeShan

A perfect summer day to a little boy means, a scrape on the knee, mud on his face and collecting bugs in garden.
~ Uknown

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

The mystery of life,
so sacred and sweet-
The giver of joy
so deep and complete
~ Uknown

Precious and priceless,
so lovable, too-
The world's sweetest miracle,
baby, is you.
~ Helen Steiner Rice

A world to be born
under your footsteps....
~ Saint-John Perse

Babies are such a nice way to start people.
~ Don Herold

Baby's fishing for a dream, fishing near and far. His line a silver moonbeam is, his bait a silver star.
~ Alice C.D. Riley

BABY'S NAME (Put in name of Baby that you are addressing)
(Baby Name) we don't know you yet
But we love you....
You are
New beginnings
New life
Family....
The gift of tomorrow
Belongs to you....
~ Judy Janish

Close your eyes
Have no fear
The monsters gone
he's on the run
And your Daddy's here
Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful Boy.
~ John Lennon

Even before the stars lit up the sky, your little boy had a special place in the heart of God.
~ Unknown

For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

How soft and fresh he breathes!
Look! He is dreaming! Visions sure of joy
Are gladdening his rest; and, ah! who knows
But waiting angels do converse in sleep
With babes like this!
~ Bishop Coxe (1818-1896)

If I have a monument in this world, it is my son.
~ Maya Angelou

BOY TITLES
All Boy
Backyard boy
Boy meets world
Boy, oh boy!
Boys and their toys
Boys only!
Boys-R-Us
Boys will be boys
First set of wheels
Like father, like son
Mommy's little "son" flower
You are my "son" shine
~ Unknown

Keiki or pepe
Baby: in hawiian

Little Boy Under Construction
~ Unknown

May your life be filled with beautiful sunsets, great waves and sand between your toes.
~ Chere Nordstrand

No animal is so inexhaustible as an excited infant.
~ Amy Leslie

Nothing is as precious or brings home so much love, as a brand new baby sent from above.
~ Unknown

Our Very Own Son
Born not from our flesh,
but born in our hearts,
You were longed for and wanted
and loved from the start.
Conceived from a blessing
sent straight from above,
Our very "own" son
at last home to love.
~ Unknown

People who say they sleep like a baby usually don't have one.
~ Leo J. Burke

Special Things Come in Small Packages
~ Unknown

Ten little fingers, Ten tiny toes,
The sweetest of smiles
And a cute little nose.
All these add up
To a very special
thing - A BABY
The greatest of gifts
That life can bring
~ Unknown

Ten tiny little fingers that always want to play,
That never stop exploring the wonder of today.
Ten tiny little fingers that from the very start,
Will reach out for tomorrow yet always hold your heart.

~ Unknown

The decision to have a child is to accept that your heart will forever walk about outside your body.
~ Katherine Hadley

The only thing worth stealing is a kiss from a sleeping baby ~Unknown

There is nothing like the blessing Of a bouncing, baby boy He will fill your home with energy And touch your heart with joy. He'll hug you and bug you And try you within But each precious memory You'll treasure again and again.
~ Linda LaTourelle

There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

twinkle twinkle
little boy
how you fill my heart
with joy.
~ Melissa

You came from heaven, oh, so sweet
A precious bundle of joy
And here on earth we finally meet
Our beautiful baby boy!
Some people say you look like your dad
Some think you look like me
But either way is OK
You're all that we hoped you would be.
Now every night before we sleep
We thank our Father above
For sending us a special gift
That fills our home with love.
~ Unknown

You don't raise heroes; you raise sons. And if you treat them like sons, they'll turn out to be heroes, even if it's just in your own eyes. ~ Walter Schirra Sr.

"A child is God's opinion that life should go on."
~ Unknown

"In the eyes of a child... there is joy, there is laughter... there is hope, there is trust, a chance to shape the future..."
~ Air Supply

"In the sheltered simplicity of the first days after a baby is born, one sees again the magical closed circle, the miraculous sense of two people existing only for each other."
~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh

"Maternal love, like an orange tree, buds and blossoms and bears at once. When a woman puts her finger for the first time into the tiny hand of her baby and feels that helpless clutch which tightens her very heartstrings, she is born again with her newborn child."
~ Kate Douglas Wiggin

"Our daughter is the knot that ties the family together".
~ Me (Ada)

"Some women are dripping with diamonds, some women are dripping with pearls, look at me, lucky me, I'm dripping with little girls."
~ From the musical "Little Orphan Annie"

A baby girl...
one of the most beautiful miracles in life,
one of the greatest joys we can ever know,
and one of the reasons why
there is a little extra sunshine, laughter and happiness
in your world today.
~ Unknown

A baby is a blank check made payable to the human race.
~ Barbara Christine Seifert

A Daughter: The companion, the friend, and the confidant of her mother, and the object of a pleasure something like the love between the angels to her father.
~ Richard Steele, 1710

A girl is
Innocence playing in the mud,
Beauty standing on its head,
and Motherhood dragging a doll by the foot.
~ Alan Beck

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

The mystery of life,
so sacred and sweet-
The giver of joy
so deep and complete.

Precious and priceless,
so lovable, too-
The world's sweetest miracle,
baby, is you.
~ Helen Steiner Rice

Sugar and spice
and all things that are nice
That's what little girls are made of
~ Unknown

A world to be born
under your footsteps...
~ Saint-John Perse

Babies are such a nice way to start people.
~ DON HEROLD

Baby's fishing for a dream, fishing near and far. His line a silver moonbeam is, his bait a silver star.
~ Alice C.D. Riley

BABY'S GIRL (Put in name of Baby that you are addressing)

We don't know you yet
But we love you...
You are
New beginnings
New life
Family...
The gift of tomorrow
Belongs to you...
~ Judy Janish

Courage, determination, pride...that's what little girls are made of.
~ Unknown

Fresh as a daisy!
~ Unknown

Girls are giggles with freckles all over them
~ Unknown

Let's put FIRST things FIRST!
~ Unknown

Little Girl Under Construction
~ Unknown

Little girls are precious gifts, wrapped in love serene. Their dresses are tied with sashes and wrapped up in dreams.
~ Unknown

Little girls are the nicest things that happen to people.
~ Allen Beck

Little girls dance their way into your heart,
Whirling on the tips of angel wings,
Scattering gold dust and kisses in our paths
~ Unknown

No animal is so inexhaustible as an excited infant.
~ Amy Leslie

Nothing is as precious or brings home so much love, as a brand new baby sent from above.
~ Unknown

People who say they sleep like a baby usually don't have one.
~ Leo J. Burke

She will fill our lives with sunshine...
And our hearts with love.
~ Unknown

Special Things Come in Small Packages
~ Unknown

Ten fingers, Ten toes
She's laughter and teardrops
So small and brand new
And amazingly angelic
She's sent to bless you
She's one special Baby
The best of life's treasure
And will grant and bless you
Many hours of great pleasure
~ Unknown

Ten little fingers, Ten tiny toes,
The sweetest of smiles
And a cute little nose.
All these add up
To a very special
thing - A BABY
The greatest of gifts
That life can bring
~ Unknown

Ten tiny little fingers that always want to play,
That never stop exploring the wonder of today.
Ten tiny little fingers that from the very start,
Will reach out for tomorrow yet always hold your heart.
~ Unknown

The beauty of a girl cannot be mimicked, fabricated or created by human means, it only occurs naturally.
~ Pam Callaghan

The decision to have a child is to accept that your heart will forever walk about outside your body.
~ Katherine Hadley

The distance is nothing;
It is only the first step that is difficult.
~ Marquise du Deffand

The smile on your face brings a smile to my heart.
~ Unknown

Watch a mans toughness melt away when he looks into the eyes of his baby daughter.
~ Kim Mc

You saw me before I was born. Every day of my life was recorded in Your book. Every moment was laid out before a single day had passed.
~ Psalm 139:16

For centuries men have kept an appointment with Christmas. Christmas means fellowship, feasting, giving and receiving, a time of good cheer, home.
~W.J. Ronald Tucke

Remember, if Christmas isn't found in your heart, you won't find it under a tree.
~Charlotte Carpenter.

...A fuel-less flame is nothing but a wraith,
However wrought, if unsustained by passion.
~Nicholas Gordon, "How Long Can We Remember an Event," poemsforfree.com

Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
~Chinese Proverb

Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?
~Rose F. Kennedy

Blessed is the match consumed in kindling flame
Blessed is the flame that burns in the secret fastness of the heart
~Hannah Senesh

By all means, then, let us have psalms
and days of dedication anew to the old causes.
~Charles Reznikoff, "Meditations on the Fall and Winter Holidays"

Christmas brings enormous electric bills. Candles are used for Hanukkah. Not only are we spared enormous electric bills, but we get to feel good about not contributing to the energy crisis.
~KOACH Humor, "Holiday Distinctions Finally Explained" (KOACH College Outreach is a project of The United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism)

Colorful candles burning bright, each lit on eight very special nights.
~Author Unknown

Eight days the light continued on its own:
A miracle, they say, but not more so
Than ordinary lives of flesh and bone,
Consuming wicks burned ashen long ago....
~Nicholas Gordon, poemsforfree.com

Even our misfortunes are a part of our belongings. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Night Flight, 1931, translated from French by Stuart Gilbert

I ask not for a lighter burden, but for broader shoulders.
~Jewish Proverb

In the old days, it was not called the Holiday Season; the Christians called it "Christmas" and went to church; the Jews called it "Hanukkah" and went to synagogue; the atheists went to parties and drank. People passing each other on the street would say "Merry Christmas!" or "Happy Hanukkah!" or (to the atheists) "Look out for the wall!"
~Dave Barry

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.
~Buddha

Kindle the taper like the steadfast star
Ablaze on evening's forehead o'er the earth,
And add each night a lustre till afar
An eightfold splendor shine above thy hearth.
~Emma Lazarus, "The Feast of Lights"

Let the straight flower bespeak its purpose in straightness - to seek the light.
Let the crooked flower bespeak its purpose in crookedness - to seek the light.
Let the crookedness and straightness bespeak the light.
~Allen Ginsberg, "Psalm III"

May love and light fill your home and heart at Hanukkah.
~Author Unknown

May the lights of Hanukkah usher in a better world for all humankind.
~Author Unknown

Most Texans think Hanukkah is some sort of duck call.
~Richard Lewis

Now, near the Winter Solstice, it is good to light candles. All the nice meanings of bringing light to the world can be beautiful. But perhaps we are concentrating on lighting the world because we don't know how to light up our own lives.
~Ralph Levy, "Hanukkah - Another View"

On Hanukkah, the first dark night,
Light yourself a candle bright.
I'll you, if you will me invite
To dance within that gentle light.
~Nicholas Gordon, poemsforfree.com

Still ours the dance, the feast, the glorious Psalm,
The mystic lights of emblem, and the Word.
~Emma Lazarus, "The Feast of Lights"

The darkness of the whole world cannot swallow the glowing of a candle.
~Robert Altinger

The miracle, of course, was not that the oil for the sacred light -
in a little cruse - lasted as long as they say;
but that the courage of the Maccabees lasted to this day:
let that nourish my flickering spirit.
~Charles Reznikoff, "Meditations on the Fall and Winter Holidays"

To me every hour of the light and dark is a miracle,
Every cubic inch of space is a miracle.
~Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

We have focused on the miracle-thing and I think we often overlook the message of Hanukkah. To me, the core of the holiday is the cleaning of the temple.... The accomplishment was in restoring the temple to the purpose for which it was built. Now think of the temple as a symbol. Perhaps it represents my life. The world has tried to use me for its own (perhaps good, but none-the-less extrinsic) purposes. But now I can rededicate myself to my own original purpose.
~Ralph Levy, "Hanukkah - Another View"

In the spirit of the celebration of Easter, here are some memorable quotes to use in your layouts or just gain inspiration....

The resurrection gives my life meaning and direction and the opportunity to start over no matter what my circumstances. ~Robert Flatt

Easter says you can put truth in a grave, but it won't stay there. ~Clarence W. Hall

It is the hour to rend thy chains,
The blossom time of souls. ~Katherine Lee Bates

Could life so end, half told; its school so fail?
Soul, soul, there is a sequel to thy tale!
~Robert Mowry Bell

Easter is the demonstration of God that life is essentially spiritual and timeless. ~Charles M. Crowe

On Easter Day the veil between time and eternity thins to gossamer. ~Douglas Horton

Easter spells out beauty, the rare beauty of new life. ~S.D. Gordon

Where man sees but withered leaves, God sees sweet flowers growing. ~Albert Laighton

He takes men out of time and makes them feel eternity. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

For I remember it is Easter morn,
And life and love and peace are all new born. ~Alice Freeman Palmer

Thou art the Sun of other days.
They shine by giving back the rays.
~John Keble, The Christian Year: Easter Days

We live and die; Christ died and lived! ~John Stott

Those have a short Lent, who owe money to be paid at Easter. ~Benjamin Franklin

The story of Easter is the story of God's wonderful window of divine surprise. ~Carl Knudsen

Our Lord has written the promise of the resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in spring-time. ~Martin Luther

Well pleaseth me the sweet time of Easter
That maketh the leaf and the flower come out. ~Bertran de Born

Easter tells us that life is to be interpreted not simply in terms of things but in terms of ideals. ~Charles M. Crowe

A picture may express a thousand words, but accompanied by just the right touch of penned thoughts, your picture blooms into a story all on its own.

Be mindful though not to over do it; a phrase, or a sentiment

Will accomplish much more than an entire narration; it leaves your project free of clutter, with a hint of your personal feelings telling the story of your pictures.

Let your pictures be your guide to finding your inner journaling self, and in no time you'll be getting compliments for your artistic and poetic flairs!

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

He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from opposition; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach himself. ~Thomas Paine

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

The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation.
~Woodrow Wilson

Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have.
~Harry Emerson Fosdick

Let freedom never perish in your hands. ~Joseph Addison

You have to love a nation that celebrates its independence every July 4, not with a parade of guns, tanks, and soldiers who file by the White House in a show of strength and muscle, but with family picnics where kids throw Frisbees, the potato salad gets iffy, and the flies die from happiness. You may think you have overeaten, but it is patriotism.
~Erma Bombeck

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

In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.
~Franklin D. Roosevelt

A statistician made a few calculations and discovered that since the birth of our nation more lives had been lost in celebrating independence than in winning it.
~Curtis Billings

Freedom's natal day is here.
Fire the guns and shout for freedom,
See the flag above unfurled!
Hail the stars and stripes forever,
Dearest flag in all the world.
~Florence A. Jones

This, then, is the state of the union: free and restless, growing and full of hope. So it was in the beginning. So it shall always be, while God is willing, and we are strong enough to keep the faith. ~Lyndon B. Johnson

For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail?
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

That which distinguishes this day from all others is that then both orators and artillerymen shoot blank cartridges.
~John Burroughs, Journal

Those who won our independence believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty. ~Louis D. Brandeis

Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.
~Albert Camus

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

Liberty is the breath of life to nations. ~George Bernard Shaw

"True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost."
~ Charles Caleb Colton

"Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born."
~ Anais Nin

"My friends are my estate."
~ Emily Dickinson

"A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out."
~ Anonymous

"A friend is one who walks in when others walk out"
~ Walter Winchell

"A friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else."
~ Len Wein

"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."
~ Albert Camus (also attributed to Maimonidies)

"Every person is a new door to a different world."
~ from the movie "Six Degrees of Seperation"

"It takes a long time to grow an old friend."
~ John Leonard

"No love, no friendship, can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever."
~ Francois Mocuriac

"Friendship is one mind in two bodies."
~ Mencius

"True friendship is never serene."
~ Mariede Svign

"It's the friends you can call up at 4am that matter."
~ Marlene Dietrick

"A friend is a gift you give yourself."
~ Robert Louis Stevenson

"Friend - a person known well to another and regarded with liking, affection and loyalty."
~ Collins English Dictionary

"A new friendship is like an unripened fruit - it may become either an orange or a lemon"
~ Emma Stacey

"Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's success."
~ Oscar Wilde

"Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,
Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel;
But do not dull thy palm with entertainment
Of each new~ hatch'd, unfledg'd comrade."
~ William Shakespeare

"Friendship with oneself is all - important because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world."
~ Eleanor Roosevelt

"If you judge people, you have no time to love them."
~ Mother Teresa

"I will speak ill of no man, and speak all the good I know of everybody."
~ Benjamin Franklin

"Misfortune shows those who are not really friends."
~ Aristotle

"Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy you must have somebody to divide it with."
~ Mark Twain

"Thus nature has no love for solitude, and always leans, as it were, on some support; and the sweetest support is found in the most intimate friendship."
~ Cicero

"Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind."
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"The best mirror is an old friend."
~ George Herbert

Firefighters save hearts and homes.
~Author Unknown

Firemen never die, they just burn forever in the hearts of the people whose lives they saved.
~Susan Diane Murphree

Firefighters are hot stuff!
~Author Unknown

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.
~Ambrose Redmoon

Firefighting - one of the few professions left that still makes house calls.
~Author Unknown

Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.
~Albert Schweitzer

You might be a firefighter if your kids are afraid to get into water fights with you. ~Author Unknown

You might be a firefighter if you've ever smoked and there wasn't a cigarette in sight. ~Author Unknown

Unselfish and noble actions are the most radiant pages in the biography of souls. ~David Thomas

You have to do something in your life that is honorable and not cowardly if you are to live in peace with yourself, and for the firefighter it is fire.
~Larry Brown

Not the glittering weapon fights the fight, but rather the hero's heart.
~Proverb

Courage can't see around corners, but goes around them anyway.
~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960

We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.
~Cynthia Ozick

Whatever the American's are proud of - whatever they consider to be particularly good, useful, brilliant, or characteristic of themselves or their climate, they designate, half in jest, though scarcely half in earnest, as an "institution." Thus the memory of George Washington... is an institution; the Falls of Niagara are an institution; the Plymouth Rock, on which the Pilgrim Fathers first set foot, is an institution...; "Sweet potatoes" are an institution, and Pumpkin (or Punkin) pie is an institution; ...squash is an institution; Bunker Hill is an institution; and the firemen of New York are a great institution. ~Charles Mackay, Life and Liberty in America, 1850

The funny thing about firemen is, night and day, they are always firemen.
~Gregory Widen, Backdraft

You may not have saved a lot of money in your life, but if you have saved a lot of heartaches for other folks, you are a pretty rich man.
~Seth Parker

I can no other answer make, but, thanks, and thanks.
~William Shakespeare

When a man becomes a fireman his greatest act of bravery has been accomplished. What he does after that is all in the line of work. ~Edward F. Croker

It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference.
~Tom Brokaw

Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it. ~William Arthur Ward

No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another. Thank you.
~Author Unknown

Firefighters - your worst nightmare is just another day at the office.
~Author Unknown

I've seen and met angels wearing the disguise of ordinary people living ordinary lives. ~Tracy Chapman

Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone. ~G.B. Stern

No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.
~James Allen

Something that has always puzzled me all my life is why, when I am in special need of help, the good deed is usually done by somebody on whom I have no claim.
~William Feather

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves.
~ John Muir

Clouds of insects danced and buzzed in the golden autumn light, and the air was full of the piping of the song-birds. Long, glinting dragonflies shot across the path, or hung tremulous with gauzy wings and gleaming bodies.
~ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.
~ George Eliot

Everyone must take time to sit and watch the leaves turn.
~ Elizabeth Lawrence

For man, autumn is a time of harvest, of gathering together. For nature, it is a time of sowing, of scattering abroad.
~ Edwin Way Teale

I cannot endure to waste anything as precious as autumn sunshine by staying in the house. So I spend almost all the daylight hours in the open air.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne

In the garden, Autumn is, indeed the crowning glory of the year, bringing us the fruition of months of thought and care and toil. And at no season, safe perhaps in Daffodil time, do we get such superb colour effects as from August to November.
~ Rose G. Kingsley

I've never known anyone yet who doesn't suffer a certain restlessness when autumn rolls around%u2026 We're all eight years old again and anything is possible.
~ Sue Grafton

No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace
As I have seen in one autumnal face.
~ John Donne

October is a symphony of permanence and change.
~ Bonaro W. Overstreet

The foliage has been losing its freshness through the month of August, and here and there a yellow leaf shows itself like the first gray hair amidst the locks of a beauty who has seen one season too many.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes

The lands are lit with all the autumn blaze of golden-rod, and everywhere the purple asters nod and bend and wave and flit.
~ Helen Hunt

There is a harmony in autumn, and a luster in its sky, which through the summer is not heard or seen, as if it could not be, as if it had not been!
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley

Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting and autumn a mosaic of them all.
~ Stanley Horowitz

Youth is like spring, an over praised season more remarkable for biting winds than genial breezes. Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.
~ Samuel Butler

A few days ago I walked along the edge of the lake and was treated to the crunch and rustle of leaves with each step I made. The acoustics of this season are different and all sounds, no matter how hushed, are as crisp as autumn air.
~ Eric Sloane

All those golden autumn days the sky was full of wings. Wings beating low over the blue water of Silver Lake, wings beating high in the blue air far above it . . . bearing them all away to the green fields in the South.
~ Laura Ingalls Wilder

Autumn is a second spring where every leaf is a flower.
~ Albert Camus

Autumn is the eternal corrective. It is ripeness and color and a time of maturity; but it is also breadth, and depth, and distance. What man can stand with autumn on a hilltop and fail to see the span of his world and the meaning of the rolling hills that reach to the far horizon?
~ Hal Borland

Autumn, the year's last, loveliest smile.
~ William Cullen Bryant

Bittersweet October. The mellow, messy, leaf-kicking, perfect pause between the opposing miseries of summer and winter.
~ Carol Bishop Hipps