“In the tapestry of childhood, what stands out is not the splashy, blow-out trips to Disneyland but the common threads that run throughout and repeat: the family dinners, nature walks, reading together at bedtime, Saturday morning pancakes.”

~ Kim John Payne, Author

“A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.”

~ Robert Frost

(Happy Birthday to me :))

“Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.”  

~ Anthony G. Oettinger

(apparently mistakenly attributed to Groucho Marx)

“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.”

~ Alfred Tennyson

“It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like "What about lunch?”

  ~ A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh