The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
May2
Monday Morning Wisdom #360
Tag Archives: Quotes
Aug20
Creative Juice #256
Things to think about, things to laugh about, things to love.
- Some of these are laugh-out-loud funny. LOL.
- These illustrations remind me that life is good.
- Ladies, remember wanting to shave your legs?
- How to celebrate a quilter’s birthday.
- I did not remember that Linda McCartney had been a photographer.
- How a music teacher did double duty as a National Guardsman.
- Amazing cut-paper illustrations.
- I love what Nathalie is doing with this antique ledger.
- Can Christians, Jews, and Muslims learn from one another? And can it start in childhood?
- Inspiring quotes.
- This room looks three-dimensional, but it’s actually a flat inlay.
- Famous portraits revisited.
Aug16
Monday Morning Wisdom #323
The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can.
~Neil Gaiman
Feb8
Monday Morning Wisdom #296
Maybe you’re standing in a place where the sky and the mountains are very dramatic; the trees have incredible color and the water is vibrant. You have to decide what you want your painting to be about, render that element the most important, and then paint everything else to support it.
~ Scott Christensen in On Distant Ground, about landscape painting
Jan18
Monday Morning Wisdom #293
Dec14
Monday Morning Wisdom #288
Consider the postage stamp; its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing until it gets there.
~ Josh Billings
Dec7
Monday Morning Wisdom #187
They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old; Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, We will remember them. ~ Laurence Binyon, from "For the Fallen," 1914
Oct5
Monday Morning Wisdom #278
God almighty first planted a garden; and, indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures. ~Francis Bacon
Sep28
Monday Morning Wisdom #277
I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly, because you tread on my dreams. ~William Butler Yeats
Sep7
Monday Morning Wisdom #274
Let us each Labor day, hold a congress and formulate propositions for the amelioration of the people. Send them to your Representatives with your earnest, intelligent indorsement [sic], and the laws will be changed. ~ Lawrence McGann, Chairman of the House Labor Committee, in 1894
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