Danny Kaye Quotes

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To travel is to take a journey into yourself.

Life is a blank canvas, and you need to throw all the paint on it you can.

Danny Kaye (1911-1987) was an American actor, comedian, singer, and dancer.

Carl Reiner Quotes

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Give yourself an impossible task and solve it–then you’ve got a really good story.

My father was a watchmaker and an inventor.  I saw him working in the house every day.  The work ethic, I got from him.  He worked hard and he never complained about it.

Carl Reiner (1922-2020) was an American actor, comedian, director and producer.  He received a total of nine Emmy Awards for his contributions to television entertainment.  

H. G. Wells Quotes

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We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery.

If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.

H. G. (Herbert George) Wells (1866-1946) was a British novelist, journalist, and historian.  Many of his published works share a futuristic view, and this has earned him the distinction of being the “father of science fiction.”

David Baldacci Quotes

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Love is like a good piece of wood:  It just gets stronger and stronger as the years go by.

It’s not the beginning or the destination that counts.  It’s the ride in between.

[Both quotes taken from The Christmas Train.]

David Baldacci (born 1960) is an American novelist.  

Lionel Hampton Quotes

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Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart and not in the mind.

Seemed to me that drumming was the best way to get close to God.

Lionel Hampton (1908-2002) was an American jazz vibraphonist, percussionist, and bandleader.  As a composer and arranger, he wrote more than 200 works.

New Season

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New season dawning

Reaching out for change

Darkness now leaving

Feeling fresh exchange

 

Transitions welcome

Embracing hope’s light

Every new blessing

Welcoming headlights

 

Tomorrow waiting

Catching future’s scent

Morning shares rebirth

Gathering ascent

 

New landscape ahead

Moving from home base

Confidence growing

Walking with bold pace

 

This season finished

Looking for next one

Each day holds promise

Enjoying life’s run

 

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