Saying of the Week

The truth is, you're not defeated until your doubts and regrets take the place of your dreams. Anon

Saying of the Week

"There is more to life than just increasing its speed" - Mahatma Gandhi

Sayings for the Week

"Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm."

"If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future."

both from Sir Winston Churchill


"There are people who put their dreams in a little box and say, "Yes, I've got dreams, of course, I've got dreams." Then they put the box away and bring it out once in a while to look in it, and yep, they're still there. These are great dreams, but they never even get out of the box. It takes an uncommon amount of guts to put your dreams on the line, to hold them up and say, "How good or how bad am I?" That's where courage comes in."

by Erma eck

Sayings for the Week

"Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else." - Margaret Mead

Note : It's fun to find interesting quotes from people you've never heard of and then, by doing Goggle search, to read more about them. Gordon

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Mead

"Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experience." Ralph Waldo Emerson

"To most of us the real life is the life we do not lead." - Oscar Wilde

"One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do." - Henry Ford

Sayings of the Week

"I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow-creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again." Robert Louis Stevenson


"Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future." John F. Kennedy


Gordon watched "Crocodile Dundee" for the 100th time this week. Just love the part where they're in the bush and she's asking him if he has an opinion about anything and uses Aboriginal land claims as an example. He says "See those rocks over there ? Been there 60 million years. Will be there long after we're all gone. So arguing about who owns them is like two fleas arguing over who owns the dog !"

Saying for the week

"Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary." by Sir Cecil Beaton, British photographer and award-winning set designer

The Wisdom of Cai

Cai is nearly 3 years old and very cute. He has an amazing grasp of language so I am wont to share some snippets as they come about.

Two days ago he and I were sitting in the car waiting - he in the back in his car seat playing with some toys and me in the front glancing through a newspaper.

I hear him saying something to me but don't quite catch it.
"What did you say Cai ?"
"I'm not talking to you Bumpa"
"Who are you talking to ?"
"I'm talking to myself"

Five minutes later I hear him saying something to me again
"What did you say Cai ?"
"I'm not talking to to you Bumpa"
"Who are you talking to Cai ?"
"I'm talking to myself - remember ?"
"Oh sorry, I forgot"
"It's okay Bumpa !"

August 17 - Saying of the Week

Cai is speaking very well - long sentences, clear diction and amazing comprehension. The other day he said to me "I've got a snotty nose. Do you have a kleenex ?"

January 6 - Saying of the Week

The Race at Sunrise

Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up. It knows that it must run faster than the fastest lion, or it will be killed.

Every morning a lion wakes up. It knows that it must outrun the slowest gazelle, or it will starve to death.

It doesn't matter whether you are a lion or a gazelle; when the sun comes up, you had better be running.

- African Parable

August 12 - Saying of the Week

Cai - at only 16 months - is already garnering an amazing vocabulary of words many of which he understands. However, typically, there are some things which he has picked up and uses in his own way.

"Home" - what he calls our minivan. Presumably because we always tell him that he is (mostly) going home when getting in the van to drive somewhere !

"Alright" - what he says when he either does not want something or has had enough of something, usually food or drink. (He started off saying "no" but then we would say "alright" - so that is what he has picked up on !)

He has an absolute fascination with the moon and is constantly looking for it in the sky - often finding it in the early morning or late afternoon sky when it is still showing. His first full sentence - over a month ago - was "I see de moon" - as he pointed up to it !

August 5 - Saying of the Week

"When I despair, I remember that all through history the ways of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it--always." Mahatma Gandhi

July 29 - Saying of the Week

This week's saying came with the e-mail to me from South Africa about the old bottle of wine (see older post below) :

"Drink wine, and you will sleep well. Sleep, and you will not sin. Avoid sin, and you will be saved. Ergo, drink wine and be saved." Medieval German saying

July 22 - Saying of the Week

"By the power vested in me by the Province of Alberta I now pronounce you husband and wife" - Justice of the Peace, Joan, concluding the marriage of Bronwen and Brennan on Wednesday July 18, 2007 !

July 15 - Saying of the Week

I have decided to start posting a favourite saying each week. If I know the source I will obviously quote the person. If there is no reference and you do know please let me know so that I can update accordingly ! So here's the first one :

"If you really want to do something you will find a way. If you don't you will find an excuse."