"If you don't have wrinkles, you haven't laughed enough."
                                                                                                  ---Phyllis Diller
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"Genealogy is like hide and seek,   They hide,.. I seek."
                                                                                                 ---Unknown
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"The most wasted of all our days are those in which we have not laughed"                                                                                                                          ---Edward Poste
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"Not to know what happened before one was born is to remain a child"
                                                                                               ---Cicero - 106 - 43  BC
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"There is no king who has not had a slave among  his ancestors and no slave who has not had a king among his".
                                                                                                 ---Helen Keller
(Our thanks to Diane Walls of "The Family Quilt" for this submission)

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"Everyone is the child of his/her past."
---Edna Rostow
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"Time is nothing but moments spent, with memories your only remnants".
                           --Laura Lee Green-Kulcak
(Our thanks to Laura Lee Green-Kulcak for this submission)

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"Other things may change us, but we start and end with family."
                           ---Anthony Brandt
(Our thanks to Bonnie McAllister for this submission)

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"5 out of 4 people have trouble with fractions."
                          ---Unknown
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"True Love is the Love of the Soul and has no regard for beauty, nor money, nor power and when tested by time is found to be enduring."
--Plato
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"God chooses what we go through, we choose how we go through it."
--Unknown
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Abraham Lincoln once said, "Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be." Your state of mind is up to you. Choose now to look for the good.
---Submitted by: Donna Ehler a.k.a.gramme

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Some family trees have beautiful leaves, and some have just a bunch of nuts. Remember, it is the nuts that make the tree worth shaking.
~Author Unknown 
---Submittted by Laura Funke

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"The only thing we take with us to Heaven when we leave this world is the relationships we developed while we are here."

                    ~Author Unknown
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"A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in."
--Greek proverb
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PLAY CATCH WITH ME, DAD
"Play catch with me, Dad!"
I hope you don't forget
about the small kid at home
with the baseball and the mitt.

I know that you've been busy
with important things all day,
but it makes me feel so special
when you take some time to play.

Learning how to throw and catch
don't mean that much to me.
It's just being with you
that makes us family.

So remember when you are tired at night
from the day that you just had,
don't forget I love you and
"Play catch with me, Dad."

-- Tom Krause
TOUCHING HEARTS--
TEACHING GREATNESS
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"Love works in ways that are wonderous and strange
And there's nothing in life that love cannot change."
---Author Unknown
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"For all we know, our blessings are not the fruits of our prayers alone, but those of another praying for us."
---UNKNOWN
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"Minds, like parachutes, function best when open."
---Unknown
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