Best Quotations Wanted! $25 Coupon for winner!

**keith** · 05-14-2009, 10:56 AM

Summer Snow, our client (of OnYourMark, LLC - publisher of theBubbler.com) and sponsor of theBubbler is launching a new site soon - doing framed art of great quotations!

We're already doing several sites for Summer Snow:

Cedar Framed Prints, Folk Art Artist Prints for news
http://SummerSnowPrints.com for art prints
Framed Art Pictures, Folk Art, Childrens Art, Artists Prints by Summer Snow Art for framed art

Next comes SummerSnowExpressions.com - providing framed art for text expressions, a few of which are carried now at SummerSnowArt.com:

Always kiss me goodnight.
Framed Pictures, Framed Prints, Framed Artists Prints - Summer Snow Art

All Because Two People Fell In Love.
Framed Pictures, Framed Prints, Framed Artists Prints - Summer Snow Art

We're looking for a LOT more quotations, across many categories (sports, art, life, church, business, politics, family, love....).

At the end of May Summer Snow will choose their favorite and the author will get a $25 gift certificate for use on the new site.

Please post your quotes here ~ as many as you like. Please provide the source whenever possible.

Regards,
Keith

Please note:
Summer Snow is also offering another $25 gift certificate for SummerSnowExpressions.com for their choice of the best quotation for June! Let's get those quotations in!

**dgridley** · 05-14-2009, 11:18 AM

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**keith** · 05-14-2009, 11:19 AM

This may be a bit long, and the source is unknown (I've looked often - been using this for over thirty years):

Success is that place in life where preparation and opportunity meet,
but too few recognize it because often it comes disguised as hard work.

Regards,
Keith

**keith** · 05-14-2009, 11:32 AM

From The Cross and the Switchblade:

If you have two friends in life you're lucky.
If you have one good friend, you're more than lucky.

Regards,
Keith

**dgridley** · 05-14-2009, 11:34 AM

Here are a few:

Claude Monet (artist): Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary. ~Pablo Picasso

Art is the only way to run away without leaving home. ~Twyla Tharp

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up. ~Pablo Picasso

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better. ~André Gide

Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail. ~Theodore Dreiser, Life, Art, and America, 1917

To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist. ~Schumann

Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen. ~Leonardo da Vinci

**keith** · 05-14-2009, 11:37 AM

Those are beautiful, Dave. Thanks!

Regards,
Keith

**dgridley** · 05-15-2009, 10:42 PM

"Quotes are nothing but inspiration for the uninspired." ~ Richard Kempf

A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires. ~ Hedy Lamarr

A man paints with his brains and not with his hands. ~ Michelangelo

Abstract art is a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered. ~ Al Capp

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time. ~ Thomas Merton

Anyone else?

**dgridley** · 05-19-2009, 01:21 AM

Friendly bump..

**keith** · 05-24-2009, 12:18 AM

Great quotes about art, Dave.

Humbly suggest quotes about boys, girls, sons, daughters, moms, dads, grandmas, grandpas, work, play, etc...

We can really use these for a new site going up soon - and there's a chance to win a $25 coupon for art.

Regards,
Keith

**dgridley** · 05-24-2009, 04:17 AM

I meant to bump this up myself yesterday.. looks like you beat me to it!

pk · 05-24-2009, 07:34 AM

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. -- Anonymous

pk · 05-24-2009, 07:34 AM

The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or a woman.

-Cather,Willa Sibert

**keith** · 05-24-2009, 03:44 PM

All great change in America begins at the dinner table.

Ronald Reagan

**dgridley** · 05-24-2009, 03:49 PM

We worry about what a child will become tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today. ~Stacia Tauscher

A characteristic of the normal child is he doesn't act that way very often. ~Author Unknown

Children make you want to start life over. ~Muhammad Ali

Boy, n.: a noise with dirt on it. ~Not Your Average Dictionary

Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see. ~John W. Whitehead, The Stealing of America, 1983

A child can ask questions that a wise man cannot answer. ~Author Unknown

**dgridley** · 05-24-2009, 03:52 PM

"Without love there are no dreams."
Source Unknown

"But still sometimes, when the wind is warm or the crickets sing, I dream of a love that even time will lie down and be still for."
Sally, from the movie "Practical Magic"

"Is all that we see or seem, but a dream within a dream?"
Poe

"If every dream I have is of you; I would want to sleep forever."
Source Unknown

"The greatest courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing HEART."
Robert Green Ingersole

**keith** · 05-24-2009, 04:13 PM

If you want your life to be more rewarding, you have to change the way you think.

Oprah Winfrey

**dgridley** · 05-24-2009, 04:51 PM

I'm Not A Very Good American Because I Like To Form My Own Opinions…" George Carlin

pk · 05-24-2009, 06:47 PM

All really great quotations so far. I'm glad I don't have to be there when it comes time to pick a winner. I think they are all winners. lol

**dgridley** · 05-24-2009, 10:17 PM

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
-- John Bowring

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

Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family.
-- Anthony Brandt

A garden of Love grows in a Grandmother's heart.
-- Author Unknown

A grandmother is a mother who has a second chance.
-- Author Unknown

A grandmother pretends she doesn't know who you are on Halloween.
-- Erma Bombeck

Becoming a grandmother is wonderful. One moment you're just a mother. The next you are all-wise and prehistoric.
-- Pam Brown

Grandmas hold our tiny hands for just a little while, but our hearts forever.
-- Author Unknown

No cowboy was ever faster on the draw than a grandparent pulling a baby picture out of a wallet.
-- Author Unknown

One of the most powerful handclasps is that of a new grandbaby around the finger of a grandfather.
-- Joy Hargrove

The handwriting on the wall means the grandchildren found the crayons.
-- Author Unknown

When a child is born, so are grandmothers.
-- Judith Levy

**dgridley** · 05-24-2009, 10:20 PM

Life is a big canvas, throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye

Whether you think you can or think you can't - you are right.
-- Henry Ford

You were born an original. Don't die a copy.
-- John Mason

pk · 05-25-2009, 10:50 PM

Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is mystery. Today is a gift.

pk · 05-25-2009, 10:51 PM

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature,
But beautiful old people are works of art.

pk · 05-25-2009, 10:52 PM

The problem with the gene pool is that there is no lifeguard.

pk · 05-25-2009, 10:53 PM

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

pk · 05-25-2009, 10:54 PM

The sooner you fall behind, the more time you'll have to catch up.