You Can Quote Me...

Hello! Welcome to my QUOTES page!

Here, I'm sharing sentences or thoughts that make my heart and mind hit the pause and rewind button. I hope you find some encouragement here!


Posted: April 8, 2015               Folks don't like to have somebody around knowin' more than they do. It aggravates 'em. You're not gonna change any of them by talkin' right, they've got to want to learn themselves, and when they don't want to learn there's nothing you can do but keep your month shut or talk their language."
                                  Calpurnia, in To Kill a Mockingbird

Posted: November 19, 2014
           Do Something Today Your Future Self Will Thank You For

Posted: June 6, 2013


                Trusting Jesus is hard. It requires following the unseen into an unknown, and believing Jesus’s words over and against the threats we see or the fears we feel.
                                                        Jon Bloom

Posted: April 25, 2013

                I write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired at nine o'clock every morning.
                                                                                                        Peter De Vries

Posted: March 5, 2013

                                                  Writing is praying with a keyboard.
                                                                                           Mark Batterson

Posted: October 31, 2012


Quit trying to fit. Why try to squeeze all your extraordinary into ordinary?
                                                                                                  Ann Voskamp

Posted: October 14, 2012

                                                                     May you die young at a ripe old age.
                                                                                                Mark Batterson

Posted: September 20, 2012

                                                 Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.
                                                                                                                                   Parkinson's Law

Posted: September 4, 2012
                                     Aspirations will get you nowhere. Hitch your wagon to sweat.
                                                                                                              N. D. Wilson

Posted: August 28, 2012                                    940 Saturdays

This is from Dr. Harley Rotbart, author of "No Regrets Parenting." Between the day your child is born, and the time he or she turns 18, you get 940 Saturdays. Another reminder for me to parent purposefully

Posted: August 4, 2012
Fail your way to the top.

Posted: July 25, 2012
It doesn't have to be perfect. It needs to be done.


I consider the following 29 quotes my "starter" set. In October 2011, I participated in a 31 day blog series. My topic was "31 Days of Words for the Daily Dash." I still hear these sayings in my head all the time. I've talked about them at length, so to avoid being redundant, I don't want to emphasize them again on the front page of my blog. But because they are big ones for me, I didn't want to leave them off this page either.

If you're interested in reading what I said about each one, visit the October 2011 posts.

STARTER SET

Day 2  If you have only 5 minutes, don't read my words, read God's

Day 3 - Hold a high head and a booming tail

Day 4 - The precious garden of my home needs tending

Day 5 - Live in day tight compartments

Day 6 - You are loved with an everlasting love. And underneath are the everlasting arms

Day 7 - Go invent something

Day 8 - Willful waste makes woeful want

Day 9 - It's all about the pioneers

Day 10- Do your best and forget the rest

Day 11 - A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in settings of silver

Day 12 - Tell yourself the truth

Day 13 - Go ahead and ask. The worst they can say is no.

Day 14 - Many hands make light work

Day 15 - Lord, please let my kids get caught

Day 16 - Guard your heart

Day 17 - The Lord is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit

Day 18 - Do the next thing

Day 19 - It's just wood, hay, and stubble

Day 20 - Is that the kind of marriage you want?

Day 21 - He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose

Day 22 - Lord, teach me how to think about this

Day 23 - There is always time to do the will of God

Day 24 - God gave you two ears and one mouth for a reason 

Day 25 - So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day

Day 26 - But Farmer Hoggett knew that little ideas that tickled and nagged, and refused to go away, should never be ignored...for in them lie the seeds of destiny

Day 27 - You can never be too organized, just too inflexible

Day 28 - Don't spit in their soup

Day 29 - It's nothing but fun

Day 30 - Thank you, God

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