slatten49 Loc: Lake Whitney, Texas

You have to love a nation that celebrates its independence every July 4, not with a parade of guns, tanks, and soldiers who file by the White House in a show of strength and muscle, but with family picnics where kids throw frisbees, the potato salad gets iffy, and the flies die from happiness. You may think you have overeaten, but it is patriotism.

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'.

Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the 'Titanic' who waved off the dessert cart.

Given another shot at life, I would seize every minute...look at it and really see it... live it...and never give it back. Stop sweating the small stuff. Don't worry about who doesn't like you, who has more, or who's doing what. Instead, let's cherish the relationships we have with those who do love us.

The grass is always greener over the septic tank.

Never underestimate what it takes to watch someone you love in pain.

My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance.

A grandparent will help you with your buttons, your zippers, and your shoelaces and not be in any hurry for you to grow up.

Someday, when my children are old enough to understand the logic that motivates a mother, I'll tell them: I loved you enough to bug you about where you were going, with whom and what time you would get home. ... I loved you enough to be silent and let you discover your friend was a creep. I loved you enough to make you return a Milky Way with a bite out of it to a drugstore and confess, 'I stole this.' ... But most of all I loved you enough to say no when you h**ed me for it. That was the hardest part of all.

When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen. When they're finished, I climb out.

If you can't make it better, you can laugh at it.

Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.

The odds of going to the store for a loaf of bread and coming out with only a loaf of bread are three billion to one.

Some emotions don't make a lot of noise. It's hard to hear p***e. Caring is real faint - like a heartbeat. And pure love - why, some days it's so quiet, you don't even know it's there.

If I had my life to live over, I would have burned the pink candle sculpted like a rose before it melted in storage.

No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed.

Kids need love the most when they're acting most unlovable.

A member of the committee slapped a name tag over my left bosom. "What shall we name the other one?" I smiled. She was not amused.

It seemed rather incongruous that in a society of super sophisticated communication, we often suffer from a shortage of listeners.

Friends are "annuals" that need seasonal nurturing to bear blossoms. Family is a "perennial" that comes up year after year, enduring the droughts of absence and neglect. There's a place in the garden for both of them.

He who laughs.....lasts.

Good kids are like sunsets. We take them for granted. Every evening they disappear. Most parents never imagine how hard they try to please us, and how miserable they feel when they fail.

A grandmother pretends she doesn't know who you are on Halloween.

Giving birth is little more than a set of muscular contractions granting passage of a child. Then the mother is born.

Coos Bay Tom Loc: coos bay oregon

All good ones . The only plants I ever saw in a VA clinic were plastic lol