Comments on: Win some books. With real paper pages.

By: Becky

Becky — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 19:42:21 +0000

“It’s not just the Marines and the family who need to see it. Society needs to see it. Over and over and over. Because we need to remember. This nation’s at war, and we’re all a part of it, and we need to share it.”

~ U.S. Marine Lt. Col. Steve Beck, about Remembering the Brave ceremonies that award medals to Marines, soldiers, sailors and airmen who have died

~ Final Salute by Jim Sheeler

By: Elaine C.

Elaine C. — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 19:04:21 +0000

Long time reader, first time commenter! From Kahlil Gibran’s “The Prophet:”

And let your best be for your friend.
If he must know the ebb of your tide, let him know its flood also.
For what is your friend that you should seek him with hours to kill?
Seek him always with hours to live.

By: teresa

teresa — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 18:44:46 +0000

“… I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded, not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering it things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night.”

from The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

By: mp

mp — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 15:14:33 +0000

There are SO SO SO many quotes..Here is one:

“It was so simple that a flash of astonishment that felt like pain shot through her head. Education! That was it! It was education that made the difference! Education would pull them out of the grime and dirt.”

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

By: ByJane

ByJane — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 04:36:06 +0000

“oh god, all the daddy bloggers got books to give away” by me

By: Julia

Julia — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 01:14:57 +0000

Yay – books!!

“I’m bad and I’m going to hell, and I don’t care. I’d rather be in hell than anywhere where you are.”

William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury

By: Grandmother

Grandmother — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 21:15:51 +0000

No, my webs were no miracle, Wilbur. I was only describing what I saw. The miracle is you.
Charlotte’s Web

By: Angie

Angie — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 18:15:35 +0000

“When I wake up in the morning I say, ‘Hi, good-looking!’”
~ I Like Me! by Nancy Carlson
We have a 2 year old – this books makes all of us smile and feel good about ourselves. Fun,fun illustrations!

By: Angela

Angela — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 03:19:20 +0000

“A child only pours herself into a little funnel or into a little box when she’s afraid of the world—when she’s been defeated. But when a child is doing something she’s passionately interested in, she grows like a tree—in all directions. This is how children learn, how children grow. They send down a taproot like a tree in dry soil. The tree may be stunted, but it sends out these roots, and suddenly one of these little taproots goes down and strikes a source of water. And the whole tree grows.”
~John Holt~ Learning All the Time

By: Kizz

Kizz — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 01:14:14 +0000

Oh my goodness, someone beat me to “My mother is a fish.” aka the shortest chapter in literature.

“…James James Morrison’s Mother put on a golden gown, James James Morrison’s mother drove to the end of the town. James James Morrison’s mother said to herself, said she: I can get right down to the end of the town and be back in time for tea…” (and the whole rest of the poem, too)

- Disobedience by A.A. Milne from When We Were Very Young