Richard's Runaway

Everyone has them.  It could be a line from a book or movie.  It could be something said by a politician or movie star.  It could be what you heard in a conversation, or even saw on a sign or in an advertisement.  But it connected with you somehow.  So you remembered it, and repeat it when you can. 

I've put a few of my favorites under the heading of "Quotes", and am sharing them with you:

When in danger, or in doubt,

Run in circles, scream and shout.

                                                    Robert Heinlein     

Progress is not created by contented people.

                                                    Unknown

 An early morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.

                              Henry David Thoreau

There will be no change until the pain of remaining the same is greater than the pain of change.

                                                                   Unknown

It's the little apples at the bottom of the barrel that keep the big apples on top.

                                                                   Unknown

Non Carborundum Illegitimatus.

Don't let the bastards wear you down.

                                                                    Unknown

How fast did a forest's heart beat?  Once a year, maybe.  Yes, that sounded about right.  Out there the forest was waiting for the brighter sun and longer days that would pump a million gallons several hundred feet into the sky in one great systolic thump too big and loud to be heard.

                                                                    Terry Pratchett in "Wyrd Sisters"

Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.

                                                                    Mark Twain

I do not like broccoli.  And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.  And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.

                                                                    George Bush

 Not all those who wander are lost.

                                 J. R. R. Tolkien

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

                                                                    Douglas Adams

In the end we will conserve only what we love; we will love only what we understand; and we will understand only what we have been taught.

                                                                    Baba Dioum