Best Quotations Wanted! $25 Coupon for winner!

[keith]

Originally Posted by pk

Clarification here please:

Dave asked for an extension, of which I was assuming he meant the original contest from May.

You stated that his wish is granted.

Then it went on to talk about the June contest and the first post.

So, is the May contest done? Will a winner be posted and then a new June contest has been added? That works for me since it seems to follow a set of rules for contests (the first contest was stated for May only). And it would be great if this could be like a phase II of the contest.

Thanks for any additional info you can add to clear this up.

Yeah, I could be clearer...

We'll announce a May Winner very soon (as soon as I learn which of the quotes that Summer Snow likes best).

We have another contest for June. $25 gift voucher at SummerSnowExpressions.com for the winner.

Be well, do good work and keep in touch.
Garrison Keillor

Regards,
Keith

[pk]

I kinda thought that is what you all meant but thought I would put it out here in case it helped others too.

Looking forward to everyone adding their quotes. Lots of great ones so far.

[pk]

There's nothing that can help you understand your beliefs more than trying to explain them to an inquisitive child.
Frank A. Clark

[pk]

The easiest way to teach children the value of money is to borrow some from them.

Anonymous

[pk]

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

James Arthur Bladwin

[pk]

You can only be young once. But you can always be immature.

Dave Barry

[pk]

The best proof of love is trust.

Joyce Brothers

[pk]

We are, each of us angels with only one wing; and we can only fly by embracing one another.

Luciano de Crescenzo

[dgridley]

Friendly bump for the month of June.. hope to see more get involved!

[keith]

Sorry I haven't chimed in with the winner yet! We had so much going on with client this last week that we neglected to come back to this several times. Will get the winner this coming week.

Regards,
Keith

[dgridley]

"In June, as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single day.
No man can heed all of these anniversaries; no man can ignore all of them."
- Aldo Leopold

"It's beautiful the Summer month of June
When all of God's own wildflowers are in bloom
And sun shines brightly most part of the day
And butterflies o'er lush green meadows play.

Light hearted skylark songster of the wing
High o'er the quiet and lonely moorland sing
Above her nest cloaked by the tangled heath
Her charming song so exquisitely sweet.

So mellow the gentle breath of june day breeze
The birds rejoicing on the leafy trees
And dappled trout in pool bed of the stream
Bask in the sun their spotted skins agleam."
- Francis Duggan, June

“It is better to be a young June-bug than an old bird of paradise”
- Mark Twain

"In these divine pleasures permitted to me of walks in the June night under moon and stars,
I can put my life as a fact before me and stand aloof from its honor and shame."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journals

"If a June night could talk,
it would probably boast it invented romance."
- Bern Williams

[dgridley]

"Kind hearts are the gardens;
kind thoughts are the roots;
kind words are the flowers;
kind deeds are the fruits."
- English Proverb

"The air is like a butterfly
With frail blue wings.
The happy earth looks at the sky
And sings."
- Joyce Kilmer, Spring

"Everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence."
- George Santayana

"Roses are red,
Violets are blue;
But they don't get around
Like the dandelions do."
- Slim Acres

“How did it get so late so soon?
Its night before its afternoon.
December is here before its June.
My goodness how the time has flewn.
How did it get so late so soon?”
- Dr. Seuss

"A swarm of bees in May is worth a load of hay.
A swarm of bees in June is worth a silver spoon.
A swarm of bees in July is not worth a fly."
- unknown

" Summer makes me drowsy. Autumn makes me sing. Winter's pretty lousy, but I hate Spring."
- Dorothy Parker

"I question not if thrushes sing,
If roses load the air;
Beyond my heart I need not reach
When all is summer there."
- John Vance Cheney

[dgridley]

"In small proportions we just beauties see,
And in short measures life may perfect be."
- Ben Jonson

"It is dry, hazy June weather. We are more of the earth, farther from heaven these days."
- Henry David Thoreau

"Summer is a promissory note signed in June, its long days spent and gone before you know it,
and due to be repaid next January."
- Hal Borland

"The hum of bees is the voice of the garden."
- Elizabeth Lawrence

"Love is to the heart what the summer is to the farmer's year. It brings to harvest all the loveliest flowers of the soul."
- Billy Graham

[dgridley]

Friendly bump and a quote:

"Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you will land among the stars." -Les Brown

[pk]

Forgot about this..was there ever a winning quote picked for June?

[dgridley]

Man's mind, stretched by a new idea, never goes back to its original dimensions. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

The trouble with doing something right the first time is that nobody appreciates how difficult it was. - Walt West

[dgridley]

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been. - Mark Twain

A book is a gift you can open again and again. - Garrison Keillor

[dgridley]

For the upcoming 4th:

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

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

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

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

If our country is worth dying for in time of war let us resolve that it is truly worth living for in time of peace. ~Hamilton Fish

It is the love of country that has lighted and that keeps glowing the holy fire of patriotism. ~J. Horace McFarland

[dgridley]

Families are like fudge - mostly sweet with a few nuts. ~Author Unknown

Family: A social unit where the father is concerned with parking space, the children with outer space, and the mother with closet space. ~Evan Esar

The family - that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to. ~Dodie Smith

Friends are God's apology for relations. ~Hugh Kingsmill

[Blue Baboon]

I think I have the best quote of the day. This made me laugh.

"Raisins- they are NOT nature's candy. Basically, they're grapes that no one wanted."

[dgridley]

Not to get off-topic but I used to love the little boxes of raisins as a kid..

Originally Posted by Blue Baboon

I think I have the best quote of the day. This made me laugh.

"Raisins- they are NOT nature's candy. Basically, they're grapes that no one wanted."

[keith]

Drum roll please......

The May Winner of a $25 gift certificate for use on the new Summer Snow Expressions site (coming soon!) is:

Originally Posted by pk

Monday is an awful way to spend one-seventh of your life.

Congratulations, pk!

The June Winner of a $25 gift certificate for use on the new Summer Snow Expressions site (coming soon!) is:

Originally Posted by dgridley

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

Mark Twain

Congratulations, Dave!

Finally, Summer Snow added a third Winner of a $25 gift certificate for use on the new Summer Snow Expressions site (coming soon!):

Originally Posted by pk

The easiest way to teach children the value of money is to borrow some from them.

Anonymous

Congratulations again, pk! You'll get two certificates for $25 each!

Summer Snow will be producing framed art with the expressions above for sale on SummerSnowExpressions.com

We'll make sure that pk and dgridley get their $25 gift certificates before / as soon as the Summer Snow Expressions site goes live (first half of July?!).

My question....will you buy your own expressions? Or something else?

Thank you for participating in the contest!

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Thanks, everyone, for your quotes.

Congratulations again, Dave and Patti!

Regards,
Keith

[keith]

p.s.: Was that first one "anonymous", pk?

[pk]

Oh my goodness! I did not know that I won until right now!

This is so great!

Thank you!

I really love the many choices that Summer Snow has so it will be great to browse through everything again this time knowing I have a coupon. Yeah me! lol

Many thanks!




oh..and here I just wrote in another topic that if it wasn't for bad luck I wouldn't have any luck since I never win a thing...and then I won this! Too good.

[pk]

p.s.: Was that first one "anonymous", pk?

As far as I could find. It was actually a bumper sticker so I googled it and I could not find a name to go with it.