Quotes, Poems, & Sayings... - Page 565

ruffryder · 03-08-2013, 12:57 PM

How much we trust others is directly related to how much we trust ourselves and our own imperfections. Dr. Phil

ruffryder · 03-08-2013, 01:03 PM

“After all, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high heels.” ― Ann Richards

Metro · 03-08-2013, 01:43 PM

"There is nothing stronger in the world than gentleness."
-- Han Suyin

Ascot · 03-08-2013, 01:50 PM

It's fun to be smart! - my mother

s0litude · 03-08-2013, 02:45 PM

I LOVE poetry; I always have. When I did my student teaching MANY years ago, poetry was my favourite section to teach. I had considered a career in Middle Grades Education (with concentrations in English and Science) but allowed my fears of being fired or "blackballed" for being a transman to end this dream. There are several poets that I adore, but my favourite is likely Robert Frost. Ten points if you can also guess the '80's movie where this poem was featured in a tearful ending by one of the dying main characters.

Nothing Gold Can Stay
by Robert Frost

Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.

MegBluEyz · 03-08-2013, 02:53 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by s0litude

I LOVE poetry; I always have. When I did my student teaching MANY years ago, poetry was my favourite section to teach. I had considered a career in Middle Grades Education (with concentrations in English and Science) but allowed my fears of being fired or "blackballed" for being a transman to end this dream. There are several poets that I adore, but my favourite is likely Robert Frost. Ten points if you can also guess the '80's movie where this poem was featured in a tearful ending by one of the dying main characters.

Nothing Gold Can Stay
by Robert Frost

Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.

It was in the movie, The Outsiders. Robert Frost is one of my favorites also.

UofMfan · 03-08-2013, 05:25 PM

Trev · 03-08-2013, 07:03 PM

"Anyone can give up, it's the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone else would understand if you fell apart, that's true strength."
~Unknown

"Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful."
~Thick Nhat Hanh

JAGG · 03-08-2013, 08:05 PM

“The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.”
― Walter Bagehot

" It's easy for me to forgive. I don't do it for others benefit, I do it for mine." Unknown

“There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.” ― Nelson Mandela

justanolecowboy · 03-08-2013, 08:25 PM

“A gentleman is someone who does not what he wants to do, but what he should do.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

PaPa · 03-08-2013, 09:22 PM

My sister deposited on my desk today a picture off her daily cat calendar. The quote simply said, "It's not who you are that holds you back, it's who you think you're not".

She gave me this and told me to go do well on my exam because she knows I can do it.

Degotoga · 03-08-2013, 09:27 PM

Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them. - Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama

Katniss · 03-09-2013, 07:14 AM

dive for dreams

dive for dreams
or a slogan may topple you
(trees are their roots
and wind is wind)
trust your heart
if the seas catch fire
(and live by love
though the stars walk backward)
honour the past
but welcome the future
(and dance your death
away at the wedding)
never mind a world
with its villains or heroes
(for good likes girls
and tomorrow and the earth)
in spite of everything
which breathes and moves, since Doom
(with white longest hands
neating each crease)
will smooth entirely our minds
-before leaving my room
i turn, and (stooping
through the morning) kiss
this pillow, dear
where our heads lived and were.

silently if, out of not knowable

silently if, out of not knowable
night's utmost nothing,wanders a little guess
(only which is this world)more my life does
not leap than with the mystery your smile
sings or if(spiralling as luminous
they climb oblivion)voices who are dreams,
less into heaven certainly earth swims
than each my deeper death becomes your kiss
losing through you what seemed myself,i find
selves unimaginably mine;beyond
sorrow's own joys and hoping's very fears
yours is the light by which my spirit's born:
yours is the darkness of my soul's return
-you are my sun,my moon,and all my stars

Katniss~~

thedivahrrrself · 03-09-2013, 07:44 AM

One night the Moon Said to Me,
“If he makes you cry, why don’t you leave him?”
I paused for a while, then looked back & said,
“Moon, would you ever leave your sky?”

Trev · 03-09-2013, 07:51 AM

"Some people, no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty - they merely move it from their faces into their hearts."
~Martin Buxbaum

"Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That's why it's a comfort to go hand in hand."
~Emily Kimbrough

DMW · 03-09-2013, 08:53 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Katniss

dive for dreams
or a slogan may topple you
(trees are their roots
and wind is wind)
trust your heart
if the seas catch fire
(and live by love
though the stars walk backward)
honour the past
but welcome the future
(and dance your death
away at the wedding)
never mind a world
with its villains or heroes
(for God likes girls
and tomorrow and the earth)
e.e. Cummings
Katniss~~

There it is.

DMW · 03-09-2013, 09:00 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by s0litude

I LOVE poetry; I always have. When I did my student teaching MANY years ago, poetry was my favourite section to teach. I had considered a career in Middle Grades Education (with concentrations in English and Science) but allowed my fears of being fired or "blackballed" for being a transman to end this dream. There are several poets that I adore, but my favourite is likely Robert Frost. Ten points if you can also guess the '80's movie where this poem was featured in a tearful ending by one of the dying main characters.

Nothing Gold Can Stay
by Robert Frost

Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.

Ditto on Robert Frost!

The movie is called "The Outsiders"

Talon · 03-09-2013, 09:22 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DMW

Ditto on Robert Frost!

The movie is called "The Outsiders"

Yes it is...one of my all time favorite films, too.

Thank you for posting it Solitude.

JAGG · 03-09-2013, 09:45 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Talon

Yes it is...one of my all time favorite films, too.

Thank you for posting it Solitude.

The Outsiders was filmed in Tulsa Ok. !!! A freind of mine was an extra in the movie.

Spirit Dancer · 03-09-2013, 10:49 AM

I feel my body, my mind, weighted down — all is heavy — but my blood, my inner fire, my passion, the little unburdened kid in me, patiently waits to burst free. Some of us die never having burst. ~Terri Guillemets

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03-09-2013, 07:14 AM	#11293
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