Quotable Sentiments by Flowers Lebanon

Quotable Sentiments

New Baby

Babies are bits of stardust; blown from the hand of God.

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Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.

Arthur C. Coxe

Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.

Peter Ustinov

Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.

Dr. Benjamin Spock

Babies are such a nice way to start people.

Writer unknown

A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.

Karl Sandburg

Babies are works of art created by God for his pleasure.

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Birthday

At 20, the will reigns; at 30, the wit; and at 40, the judgment.

Benjamin Franklin

If youth only knew; if age only could!

Arabic saying

We are born naked, wet and hungry. Then things get worse!

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Aging is mandatory. Maturity is optional.

Chris Antonac

Age is a number and mine is unlisted.

Writer unknown

It's not how old you are, it's how hard you work at it.

Jonah Barrington

The older you get, the stronger the wind gets - and it's always in your face.

Jack Nicholson

Congratulations

The most difficult part of attaining perfection is finding something to do for an encore.

Writer unknown

When you've got it, flaunt it!

Zero Mostel

Success is that old ABC: ability, breaks and courage.

Charles Luckman

Winning is not everything. It's the only thing.

Vince Lombardi

Sympathy

Watching over us and protecting us with his angel's wings

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Those who live in the Lord never see each other for the last time.

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Only time moves on to the next scene. Memory remains part of the heart forever.

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The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.

Wallace Stevens

Death is not the last sleep. It is the final awakening.

Walter Scott

Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.

Chinese Proverb

It isn't life that matters! It's the courage you bring to it.

Sir Hugh Walpole

The journey is the reward.

Chinese Proverb

It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.

Thomas Mann

Dads

A father is a banker provided by nature.

French proverb

Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.

Ogden Nash

One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.

Margaret Mead

A man should have a child, plant a tree and write a book.

Chinese proverb

It's what you listen to as a child that you always come back to.

Al Cohn

It is a wise father that knows his own child.

William Shakespeare

Friendship

Love is blind, but friendship closes its eyes.

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No friendship can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever.

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If I had a flower for all the times you've made me smile and laugh, I would have a garden to walk in forever.

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Friends are angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble
remembering how to fly.

Anonymous

The older you get, the more you need to know those who knew you when you were young.

Anonymous

To have a good friend, you must first be one.

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It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.

Marlene Dietrich

Friendship is when people know all about you but like you anyway.

Anonymous

Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.

Samuel Paterson

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

Walter Winchell

Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Plant a seed of friendship; reap a bouquet of happiness.

Lois L. Kaufman

Sisters by chance, Friends by choice

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The only rose without thorns is friendship.

Unknown

A hug, the perfect gift. One size fits all and nobody minds exchanging it.

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Get Well

He who has health has hope, but he who has hope has everything.

Arab proverb

Never go to a doctor's office where office plants have died.

Erma Bombeck

People who feel well are sick people neglecting themselves.

Jules Romain

When one has good health, it is not serious to be ill.

Unknown

Your body is like a bar of soap. It gradually wears down, from repeated use.

Ritchie Allen

God heals and the doctor takes the fees.

Benjamin Franklin

Love and Romance

You complete me.

Jerry McGuire

Love is the only flower that grows and blossoms without the aid of the seasons.

Gibran Kahlil Gibran

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

Luciano de Crescenzo

Love is not losing freedom; it is sharing freedom with another.

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Many things in life will catch your eye, but only a few will catch your heart.

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Absence is to love what wind is to fire; It extinguishes the small, yet enkindles the great.

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To the world you are someone, but to someone you are the world.

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Love is the special feeling that brightens all our days, and the secret to its meaning is found in simple ways.

Kay Knudsen

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran Kahlil Kibran

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Victor Hugo

There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.

George Sand

Mums

To a child's ear, "mother" is magic in any language.

Arlene Benedict

God sees us through our Mothers' eyes and rewards us for our virtues.

Ganeshan Venkatarman

Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face

George Eliot

A mother's love is instinctual, unconditional, and forever.

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Mother is the bank where we deposit all our hurts and worries.

Unknown

Mothers are instinctive philosophers.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

A good mother is worth hundreds of schoolmasters.

George Herbert

A mother loves her children even when they least deserve to be loved.

Kate Sampery

There is no substitute for mother.

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Mother is the one we count on for the things that matter most of all.

Katherine Butler Hathaway

Who ran to help me when I fell, or kissed the place to make it well? ....My mother.

Ann Taylor

The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world.

William Wallace

God could not be everywhere and therefore He made mothers.

Unknown

Moral Support

If you can laugh at it, you can live with it.

Erma Bombeck

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

Will Rogers

Mistakes are doorways to discovery.

Unknown

Time spent laughing is time spent with the gods.

Japanese proverb

When you're sad, learn something.

Merton

If you don't stand for something you'll fall for anything.

Anonymous

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his brother.

Gibran Kahlil Gibran

When the world says, "Give up", hope whispers, "Try it one more time."

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Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

Will Rogers

Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.

Charles Schultz

The person who really wants to do something finds a way;
the others find an excuse.

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When it is dark enough you can see the stars.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The place of the wound is the place of the healing.

Richard Bohr

Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.

James Baldwin

Better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot.

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The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.

Epicurus

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.

Robert F. Kennedy

It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees!

Emiliano Zapata

The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Lao Tsu

You'll always miss 100% of the shots you don't take.

Wayne Gretzky

Don't wait for your ship to come in ... swim out to meet it.

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It's not so important who starts the game, but who finishes the game.

John Wooden