Birthday

Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time. ~ Jean Paul Richter

There are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday presents ... and only one for birthday presents, you know. ~ Lewis Carroll

May you live all the days of your life. ~ Jonathan Swift

Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative. ~ Maurice Chevalier

When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it happened or not. ~ Mark Twain

You are only young once, but you can be immature for a lifetime. ~ John P. Grier

The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age. ~ Lucille Ball

A birthday is just the first day of another 365-day journey around the sun. Enjoy the trip.

Because time itself is like a spiral, something special happens on your birthday each year: the same energy that God invested in you at birth is present once again. ~ Menachem Mendel Schneerson

Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed. ~ Charles Schulz

Thank you

I would thank you from the bottom of my heart, but for you my heart has no bottom.

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see. ~ Mark Twain

How beautiful a day can be when kindness touches it! ~ George Elliston

Thank you for listening with your heart!

You are kind, you are thoughtful, you are appreciated!

You have a special way of being thoughtful. It's hard to find a special way to thank you.

Thank you for the sunshine you've brought into my life.

No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks, so I'm urgently thanking you very much!

Thank you for your love, your attention, and your thoughtfulness. You are a treasure.

Have I thanked you for just "being you?"

My mother thanks you. My father thanks you. My sister thanks you. And I thank you. ~ "Yankee Doodle Dandy"

Graduation

Do what you can with what you've got wherever you are. ~ Theodore Roosevelt

All of us are born for a reason, but all of us don't discover why. Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others. ~ Danny Thomas

Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny. ~ Frank Outlaw

Success is where preparation and opportunity meet. ~ Bobby Unser

The tassel's worth the hassle!

Graduation day is tough for adults. They go to the ceremony as parents. They come home as contemporaries. After twenty-two years of child-raising, they are unemployed. ~ Erma Bombeck

There are two types of people who will tell you that you cannot make a difference in this world: those who are afraid to try themselves, and those who are afraid that you will succeed. ~ Ray Goforth

To think is easy. To act is difficult. To act as one thinks is the most difficult. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

To be nobody but myself - in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else -- means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting. ~ E. E. Cummings

Don't live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable. ~ Wendy Wasserstein

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person. ~ Mother Teresa

Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go. ~ William Feather

Get Well

If thoughts alone could bring good health, these wishes would make you well.

If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk in my garden forever.

If you're going through hell, keep going. ~ Winston Churchill

If I had my way I'd make health catching instead of disease. ~ Robert Ingersoll

Wishing You A Speedy Recovery

Hope You're Feeling Better Soon

We miss you! Come back soon!

Hurry Up and Get Well!

May the Force be with you. ~ "Star Wars"

You're going to get back on that horse, and I'm going to be right behind you, holding on tight, and away we're gonna go, go, go! ~ "On Golden Pond"

Friendship

There are many types of ships. There are wooden ships, plastic ships, and metal ships. But the best and most important type of ship is friendship. ~ Irish folklore

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives. ~ Euripides

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light. ~ Helen Keller

Never shall I forget the days I spent with you. Continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours. ~ Ludwig van Beethoven

But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life; and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine. ~ Thomas Jefferson

The best mirror is an old friend. ~ George Herbert

My friends are my estate. ~ Emily Dickinson

Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together. ~ Woodrow Wilson

"Stay" is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary. ~ Louisa Mary Alcott

A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you've forgotten the words.

Baby

A baby is born with a need to be loved - and never outgrows it. ~ Frank A. Clark

People who say they sleep like a baby usually don't have one. ~ Leo J. Burke

Babies haven't any hair;
Old men's heads are just as bare;
Between the cradle and the grave
Lie a haircut and a shave.

A baby is an angel whose wings decrease as his legs increase.

Children have more need of models than of critics. ~ Carolyn Coats

Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn't have anything to do with it. ~ Haim Ginott

To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while. ~ Josh Billings

Always kiss your children goodnight - even if they're already asleep. ~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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

Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principal one was that they escaped teething. ~ Mark Twain

Babies are such a nice way to start people. ~ Don Herrold

Every baby needs a lap. ~ Henry Robin

A baby is a blank check made payable to the human race. ~ Barbara Christine Seifert