Thornton Wilder Quote – To Be Alive
‘We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.” – Thornton Wilder
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Death leaves a heartache, Love leaves a memory
“Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.”
Read moreHuman Traffickers Sink Boat In Mediterranean Sea
Valletta, Malta Traffickers drown refugees: As many as 500 people, including scores of children, drowned off the coast of Malta when human traffickers rammed one of their boats. The traffickers had taken the group—which included Syrians, Palestinians, Egyptians, and Sudanese—by boat from Egypt and passed them to increasingly smaller boats during the journey. When the exhausted refugees refused to board […]
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W. Somerset Maugham Quote – Principles
“You can’t learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.” – W. Somerset Maugham
Read morePoem – Fifty Years Later (By Donal Mahoney)
Fifty years ago Jane got on a plane and flew away without saying good-bye. Her parents took her, I know. She was only 14 but she could have said good-bye to me, the swain who saw her through our last three years of grammar school when she wore braces, the only girl who had them. Fifty years later at our […]
Read moreHawkeye Quote – I Will Not Carry A Gun
“I will not carry a gun. . . . I’ll caryy your books, I’ll carry a torch, I’ll carry a tune, I’ll carry on, carry over, carry forward, Cary Grant, cash and carry, carry me back to old Virginia, I’ll even hari-kari if you show me how, but I will not carry a gun!” – Hawkeye, in the TV show […]
Read moreTommy Lasorda Quote – Pressure
“Pressure is a word that is misused in our vocabulary. When you start thinking of pressure, it’s because you’ve started to think of failure.” Tommy Lasorda
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Poem – A CHILDREN’S PARADISE LOST (By Joseph Cavera)
A CHILDREN’S PARADISE LOST (By Joseph Cavera) As I sit here This ground shifts Falling further Into roaring rifts The wind scatters As your toes touch the ground, Nothing else matters While you land without a sound Now enter this realm where lights galore Flash! And cry! And burn, and more I’ll see these effects prove to […]
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