“Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.” --- Bill Vaughan, author & columnist, 10/8/1915 – 2/25/1977. #quotations #quoteoftheday #cynic #cynical #cynicism #birthdays
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@janienesbittjones.bsky.social“Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.” --- Bill Vaughan, author & columnist, 10/8/1915 – 2/25/1977. #quotations #quoteoftheday #cynic #cynical #cynicism #birthdays
@spanoudis.bsky.social#Miscellanea from the #Archives at theotherpages.org
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@janienesbittjones.bsky.social“He behaved like an ostrich and put his head in the sand, thereby exposing his thinking parts.” --- George Carman, English barrister, 10/6/1929 – 1/2/2001. #quotations #quoteoftheday
@janienesbittjones.bsky.social“I long ago came to the conclusion that all life is 6 to 5 against.” --- Damon Runyon, writer, 10/4/1880 – 12/10/1946. #quotations #quoteoftheday
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@kateduvall.bsky.socialPut Downs by Laura Ward!
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@flipturns.bsky.socialBe not the slave of your own past. Plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep and swim far, so you shall come back with self-respect, with new power, with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old. 🏊♀️
Ralph Waldo Emerson
US essayist & poet (1803 - 1882)
#Advice
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@janienesbittjones.bsky.social“I found out long ago that the place where the law is apt to be abused the most is right around a courthouse." --- Jim Thompson, writer, 9/27/1906 – 4/7/1977. #cynics #cynical #cynicalquotes #quotations #quoteoftheday #birthdays
@spanoudis.bsky.social#Quotes and #Roses
from the #ParkofRoses #Columbus #Ohio
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Think of all the #beauty still left around you and be happy.
-- Anne Frank
#life #quotations #annefrank #living #rose #garden #gardens #summer #theotherpages #quote #raindrops #photography
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@janienesbittjones.bsky.social“Success is relative. It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things.” --- T. S. Eliot, writer, 9/26/1888 – 1/4/1965. #quotations #quoteoftheday #TSEliot
@janienesbittjones.bsky.social“Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday's omissions and regrets.”--- William Faulkner, 9/25/1897 – 7/6/1962. #quotations #quoteoftheday
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#flowers #dahlias #quotes #quotations #butterflies #picasso #lapush #artist #pablopicasso #quote #theotherpages #quotation #nature #monarch #pacific #garden #photography
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#birds #sunsets #quotes #quotations #cars #flamingo #everglades #shaw #georgebernardshaw #change #theotherpages #orange #wheels #engines #florida #ideas #birding
@janienesbittjones.bsky.social"At 18 our convictions are hills from which we look; at 45 they are caves in which we hide." --- F. Scott Fitzgerald, novelist, 9/24/1896 – 12/21/1940 #quotations #quoteoftheday #cynical #books #authors #writers
@janienesbittjones.bsky.social"Low expectations is the key to happiness in life." --- Christopher Miller, filmmaker, 9/23/1975 - .
#quotes #quotations
@janienesbittjones.bsky.social“Once you get rid of integrity the rest is a piece of cake.” --- Larry Hagman, actor, 9/21/1931 – 11/23/2012.
And today, I’m feeling a quote from Leonard Cohen: “I ache in the places where I used to play.” --- Leonard Cohen, poet/singer/songwriter, 9/21/1934 – 11/7/2016.
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