Scrapbooking Quotes

Don't take your toys inside just because it's raining.

No day in which you learn something is a complete loss.

My friends have made the story of my life.

A picture is poem without words.

Above all, art should be fun.

Maybe the body is taking responsibility where the mind is not. It's scrapbooking for us.

But I believe that there are marriages where you can have your pool table and she can have her scrapbooking room or garden or whatever it is. But when everyone has what they want, it's not funny. There's no conflict.

We are either progressing or retrograding all the while; there is no such thing as remaining stationary in this life.

I cannot see that art is anything less than a way of making joys perpetual.

It becomes increasingly easy, as you get older, to drown in nostalgia.

Mothers reflect God's loving presence on earth.

Keep some souvenirs of your past, or how will you ever prove it wasn't all a dream?

Strangely enough, this is the past that somebody in the future is longing to go back to.

All the past up to a moment ago is your legacy. You have a right to it.

Kindness gives birth to kindness.

The challenge of history is to recover the past and introduce it to the present.

My themes will not be far-fetched. I will tell of homely every-day phenomena and adventures.

A happy childhood can't be cured. Mine'll hang around my neck like a rainbow, that's all, instead of a noose.

She soars on her own wings.

If you're not having fun, you're doing it wrong.

How lucky we are to have such a treasure of memories.

Buy the ticket, take the ride.

One of the deepest impulses in man is the impulse to record, - to scratch a drawing on a tusk or keep a diary, to collect sagas and heap cairns. This instinct as to the enduring value of the past is, one might say, the very basis of civilization.

Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.

Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure, a sense of nothing having been done before, of complete freedom to experiment.

Our friends should be companions who inspire us, who help us rise to our best.

When people tell me they are going to go scrapbooking, I say, 'Why don't you make it yourself.' It's like chocolate-chip cookies. People buy the cookie-dough roll and slice it, and then they lay it on a cookie sheet. That's not making chocolate-chip cookies.

And I'll bury my soul in a scrapbook, with the photographs there and the moths.

If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

Even the most painstaking history is a bridge across an eternal mystery.

Everybody has a talent, whether it's scrapbooking, or kite-flying, or brain surgery, or writing, everybody has a talent. And if they discover it, and they turn it to their purposes and make a living out of it, then they become not "that person," but they become "that writer" or "that doctor" or "that supervisor."

Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition - in having put forth the best within you.

Our duty is to preserve what the past has had to say for itself, and to say for ourselves what shall be true for the future.

Half the game is mental, the other half is being mental.

Mother: the most beautiful word on the lips of mankind.

The one day you don't go into practice and use that day to the fullest is the one day someone is going to beat you.

There are exactly as many special occasions in life as we choose to celebrate.

Courage, sacrifice, determination, commitment, toughness, heart, talent, guts. That's what little girls are made of; the heck with sugar and spice.

Arrange whatever pieces come your way.

I am not a historian. I am a writer obsessed with remembering, with remembering the past

I love scrapbooks. They are one of the finest ways of dejunking life and abode... A good scrapbook is interesting and inspiring even to the stranger...Well put together scrapbooks and photo albums have warmed more hearts than any bound book... Without a good scrapbook, much that's memorable in life is forgotten or damaged or lost.

Go back. Go back in time. Everyone's life is a chain of memories. In each chain there are shining links, happenings where this element of wonder...was very strong. Why don't you reach out and relive some of those memories? If you work at it, remembering the wonder can revive your ability to live life as it should be lived.