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check.

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Quotes on Art

I nominated one of my art teachers for the Teacher of the Year award at our school. I hope she wins!

"Art does not solve problems but makes us aware of their existence. It opens our eyes to see and our brain to imagine." -Magdelena Abakanowics

"All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up." -Pablo Picasso

"Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life." -Pablo Picasso

"Give me a museum and I'll fill it." -Pablo Picasso

Quotes on Gardens

"A weed is no more than a flower in disguise." -James Russell Lowell

"Gardening is a kind of disease. It infects you, you cannot escape it. When you go visiting, your eyes rove about the garden; you interrupt the serious cocktail drinking because of an irresistible impulse to get up and pull a weed." -Lewis Gannit
This quote is totally my Grandma. She shouldn't be doing it, with her health and all, but in the summer, she will always go out and pull dandelions from her yard. Then my mom yells at her because she has a bad back and knee.

"To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves." Mohandas K. Gandhi

"What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I have never had so many good ideas day after day as when I worked in the garden." -John Erskine

"A garden is the best alternative therapy." -Germaine Greer

"Gardening is the art that uses flowers and plants as paint, and the soil and sky as canvas." -Elizabeth Murray

Quotes on Arrogance

This one is for the awfully arrogant Price, who can make me quite mad.

"Arrogance and rudeness are training wheels on the bicycle of life -- for weak people who cannot keep their balance without them." -Laura Teresa Marquez

"Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own." -Sydney J. Harris

"Love measures our stature: the more we love, the bigger we are. There is no smaller package in all the world than that of a man all wrapped up in himself." -William Sloane Coffin, Jr.

Quotes on Travel

"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime." -Mark Twain

"A person needs at intervals to separate from family and companions and go to new places. One must go without familiars in order to be open to influences, to change." -Katharine Butler Hathaway

"As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own." -Margaret Mead

Quotes on Goals

i am 5 days behind. my apologies. so 5 separate posts to make up for it.

"We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same." -Anne Frank

"First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do." -Epictetus

"Obstacles are those things you see when you take your eyes off the goal." -Hannah More

"The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

Quotes on Books

"I have a real soft spot in my heart for librarians and people who care about books." -Ann Richards

"A room without books is like a body without a soul." -Cicero

"Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed on and digested." -Francis Bacon

Quotes on Change

"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world." -Anne Frank

"Life is a process. We are a process. The universe is a process." -Anne Wilson Schaef

"Things do no change, we change." -Henry David Thoreau

"Just because everything is different doesn't mean that everything has changed." -Irene Peter

"I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it." -Pablo Picasso

Quotes.

i am going to try and post a quote everyday. although i doubt it will work. cause i don't get on enough. so to start out, i shall post multiple.

"April in Paris, chestnuts in blossom, holiday tables under the trees." -E.Y. Harburg

"Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life." -Pablo Picasso

"You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams." -Dr. Seuss

"Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." -Dr. Seuss

chapter 2

writing

i'm finally writing an actual blog. but what to write about? i'm listening to glee music now :) it makes me so happy, they're amazing. PS22 chorus is awesome as well.

i get to see "wicked" on the saturday before easter. so psyched!

is "don't rain on my parade" performed by barbara streisand? i believe so.

ok, so i'm going to go now. cause this is boring and i feel stupid. this is the picture of the day. yay for tom felton!

wait, i got it :) im super smart, you know it ;) this is another pic by mrs longbottom. how awesome! x

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why won't this thing let me insert a pic???????? why?!?!?!?!

this was drawn by my friend, the lovely mrs. longbottom. yay for hp! x