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new-year father kids
That's the great thing about New Year's, you get to be a year older. For me, that wasn't such a joke, because my birthday was always around this time. When I was a kid, my father used to tell me that everybody was celebrating my birthday. That's what the trees are all about. Alan King
new-year school angel
I don't know what to do!" cried Scrooge, laughing and crying in the same breath; and making a perfect Laocoön of himself with his stockings. "I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a school-boy. I am as giddy as a drunken man. A merry Christmas to every-body! A happy New Year to all the world! Hallo here! Whoop! Hallo! Charles Dickens
new-year years world
The New Year, like an Infant Heir to the whole world, was waited for, with welcomes, presents, and rejoicings. Charles Dickens
new-year angel light
I am light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a schoolboy Charles Dickens
new-year fear opportunity
Fear stifles our thinking and actions. It creates indecisiveness that results in stagnation. I have known talented people who procrastinate indefinitely rather than risk failure. Lost opportunities cause erosion of confidence, and the downward spiral begins. Charles Stanley
new-year team simple
Many people have trouble sticking to their resolutions, and there is a simple scientific explanation for this. In 1987, a team of psychologists conducted a study in which they monitored the New Year's resolutions of 275 people. After one week the psychologists found that 92 percent of the people were keeping their resolutions; after two weeks we have no idea what happened because the psychologists had quit monitoring. Dave Barry
new-year kissing night
New Year's Eve. It's a promise of a night. Single, married or widowed, in love, loveless or lovelorn, we all leave our apartments and pick through snow in high heels, or descend subway stairs in tuxedos, lured to wherever we're going--whether we know it or not, would deny it or not--by the kiss of a stranger. Jardine Libaire
new-year nature animal
If the age of the Earth were a calendar year and today were a breath before midnight on New Year's Eve, we showed up a scant fifteen minutes ago, and all of recorded history has blinked by in the last sixty seconds. Luckily for us, our planet-mates--the fantastic meshwork of plants, animals, and microbes--have been patiently perfecting their wares since March, an incredible 3.8 billion years since the first bacteria. ...After 3.8 billion years of research and development, failures are fossils, and what surrounds us is the secret to survival. Janine Benyus
new-year holiday years
Of all sound of all bells... most solemn and touching is the peal which rings out the Old Year. Charles Lamb
nature smart space
The Silicon Valley Manufacturing Group strongly supports green-line policies, because the only way to attract top level employees and their families is to protect the region's open space and environment. We want to build a community that is demonstrates smart growth rather than a model for L.A.-type growth. Carl Guardino
nature smart class
The future economic success of Silicon Valley will be contingent on whether we have a good quality of life. World-class workers will only want to come to a world-class living environment. Carl Guardino
nature smart successful
High-tech employers recognize that we will only be as successful as the employees that we attract. When it comes to transportation, environmental, housing and land use decisions, we don't view investments as tax and spend, but rather as invest and prosper. Carl Guardino
nature art law
His second motto: Thou, nature, art my goddess; to thy laws my services are bound. Carl Friedrich Gauss
nature flower should-have
Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower. Alan Kay
nature different merit
If you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit of yours: Nature did it. Charlotte Bronte
nature ideas giving
The idea of regularly acknowledging our indebtedness to the natural world and giving thanks for the many gifts we receive from it, or considering other species to be our close "relations" which many indigenous peoples still do, couldn't be more alien to most of us. Charlie Cook
nature support world
Now that we're essentially an indoor species, walled off from the world of other life forms, we're divorced from the very domain that supports and sustains our lives. Charlie Cook
nature roots where-you-live
Your deepest roots are in nature. No matter who you are, where you live, or what kind of life you lead, you remain irrevocably linked with the rest of creation. Charlie Cook
animal literature ends
I am a literary animal. For me, everything ends in literature. Carlos Fuentes
animal firsts incredibles
Incredible the animal that first dreamed of another animal. Carlos Fuentes
animal vegetables nephew
Now sir, said the bulldog in his business-like way. 'Are you a animal, vegetable, or mineral?' - The Magician's Nephew C. S. Lewis
animals boat dark fairly fishermen harbor landing likelihood moss near north seen speeding strikes
We have seen 60 or more animals in Moss Landing Harbor near the boat launch. If fishermen are speeding out of the north harbor in the dark at 5 a.m., the likelihood of boat strikes is fairly high. Karl Mayer
animals disease far four individual infected time twenty within
We have to get the time between the identification of the individual disease outbreaks and the slaughter of infected animals down as far as we can get it and to try and get it within twenty four hours. Nick Brown
animals intention needy sanctuary sending
We have no intention of sending these animals to a sanctuary. I don't know why we would. I think a sanctuary is appropriate for old, sick, needy elephants. Susan Basford
animal behind cross tend tunnel vision
When you see a moose cross the road, you tend to tunnel vision on that animal and don?t see the one that?s right behind it. Larry Lewis
animal land precise
We want precise land locations, where an animal was shot. Ron Lind
animal abuse slavery
The travesty of slavery wasn't physical abuse. It was the moral abuse of looking at a human being as if they are an animal. Alan Keyes