Quotes & Links

Useful Links

Blogs

Krista Liberatore shares the contents of her diary from elementary school to middle school, and perhaps beyond. http://tehcheesestandsalone.blogspot.com/

Mary Jane Phillips Koenig shares her experiences from her extensive travel. She takes you along on her journeys as she cruises the seas and explores the world by land. http://maryjanekoenig.blogspot.com/ 

Travel
Flight Aware – Track flights
Seat Guru (air travel)
AAA Fuel Cost Calculator

Technology/Business

Can’t afford Microsoft Office? Try OpenOffice, a free open-source software that features all of the Office modules. Go to: Open Office.

Education
Project Gutenberg – Free electronic books

In the Home
Christina Perillo – Healthy Eating

 

Trivia
Jeopardy!

Quotes

• “Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower, we will grieve not; rather find strength in what remains behind.” William Wordsworth

• “Remember to play after every storm.” Mattie J.T. Stepanek.

• “Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.” Charles F. Kettering.

• “Yesterday is but a dream, tomorrow but a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore, to this day. Such is the salutation to the dawn.” A Sanskrit Proverb.

• “The night before by the door.” (Gather everything you want to make sure you don’t forget and place it by the door. The next morning, you won’t forget to take those articles with you.)

• “Life’s too short to worry about dying.” A scrub tech.

• “Cowards die many times before their deaths, The valiant never taste of death but once.” Caesar to Calpurnia (Julius Caesar, Shakespeare).

• “The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how much we want something.” Randy Pausch, Carnegie Mellon University, 1960-2008.

• “Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.” Robert F. Kennedy.

• “Just know that I would die for you.” Belisia Cabro to her daughter in Junot Díaz’ The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao.

• “He who gives himself entirely to his fellow-men appears to them useless and selfish; but he who gives himself partially to them is pronounced a benefactor and philanthropist.” Henry David Thoreau, “Civil Disobedience.”

• “Sometimes this whole life seems like nothing but a long goodbye.” David Mallet – Poet, songwriter,  singer, musician.

• “Will this matter a year from now?” Richard Carlson (What about the Small Stuff? and What about the Big Stuff?

• “Don’t trouble trouble ’til trouble troubles you.”–Folklore

• For when the One Great Scorer comes
  To write against your name,
  He marks-not that you won or lost-
  But how you played the game.

Grantland Rice, “Alumunus Football,” Only the Brave and Other Poems, p. 144 (1941)