As part of the National Year of Reading 2012, Mandurah Libraries will be running a fun activity based on quotes at the 2012 Channel 7 Mandurah Crab Fest. Our activity is called Quote me! and....
we need your help!
Please send us your favourite quotes.
We need the details of who said or wrote the quote wherever possible. In addition to the usual utterances of famous people, we’d also love to include your favourite lines from books, poems or movies, great song lyrics, or anything else that means something to you.
We are after a wide range of inspiring, uplifting, thought-provoking or humorous quotes.
They can be on any topic but extra thanks to anyone who can source some on the theme of action sports (so wake boarding, waterskiing, freestyle motocross, BMX and skateboarding) to tie in with this highlight of the 2012 Crab Fest program. Please don’t send quotes that are insulting to any individual or group of people and remember they must be suitable for use at a family event.
Then come along and visit the National Year of Reading and Mandurah Libraries team during Channel 7 Mandurah Crab Fest on Saturday 17th and Sunday 18th of March. Peruse the whole range of quotes collected from our community, select one you like to take away and wear, and maybe spot someone else in the crowd wearing the quote you contributed.
Please leave your quotes as comments on this blog or email them to Deidre.Robb@mandurah.wa.gov.au with Quotes in the subject line. Many thanks for your help.
Next time you are in Falcon eLibrary and Community Centre, look around and up to see the quotes that are part of the building including this one by Groucho Marx that makes many a visitor stop, read and smile:
Here's a favourite of mine that got me through many an adventure in the outdoors. I carried a typewritten copy round with me for years while working and playing in the outdoors; it never failed to conjure a smile when I found myself in a bit of a fix.
ReplyDelete"The test of an adventure is that when you're in the middle of it, you say to yourself, 'Oh, now I’ve got myself into an awful mess; I wish I were sitting quietly at home.' And the sign that something's wrong with you is when you sit quietly at home wishing you were out having lots of adventure." Thornton Wilder
Here is a few of my favourite quotes:
ReplyDelete"Keep an open mind, but not so open that your brains fall out" ~ Richard Feynman
"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-- I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference." ~ Robert Frost (the end of the poem 'The road not taken'
"The pen is mightier than the sword, and considerably easier to write with." ~ Marty Feldman
"He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose." ~ Jim Elliot
Here is a handful of my favourite quotes :)
ReplyDelete"Keep an open mind, but not so open that your brains fall out." ~ Richard Feynman
"He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose" ~ Jim Elliot
"The pen is mightier than the sword, and considerably easier to write with" ~ Marty Feldman
"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I, I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference." ~ Robert Frost (The last line of the poem 'The road not taken')
When I am grappling with new technology and my children effortlessly sort it out, I think of this Groucho Marx quote : "A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five."
ReplyDeleteHere's another favourite that pretty well sums up my days at the moment. "Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans." John Lennon
ReplyDeleteStability by Hakan Massoud Navabi
ReplyDelete"If everyone loved peace, stability, a faithful world and earth; then there would have been two heaven for humans. First the Sky Heaven as it already exists and created by almighty God and then the Earth Heaven, that humans could create it".
Ethnicity by Hakan Massoud Navabi
ReplyDeleteIt doesn't matter from which ethnicity you belong to; but always be like bounded body and never let anyone suffer in pain. Lets throw hate away. Lets all think for just five minutes; what will happen if we are disunited and United?!