WEDDINGS

His Hello was the end of her endings.
Her laugh was their first step down the aisle.
His Hand would be hers to hold forever.
Her forever was as simple as his smile.
He said she was what was missing.
She said instantly she knew.
She was a question to be answered...
and his answer was I Do
-Author Unknown

Grow old along with me
the best is yet to be.
- Robert Browning

Love is the only flower that grows and blossoms without the aid of the seasons.
- Kahlil Gibran

Two souls with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one.
- Friedrich Halm

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
- Helen Keller

I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. Love does not
insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrong, but rejoices in the right. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends.
- Corinthians 13:4-8, The Bible

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of Being an Ideal Grace.
I love thee to the level of every day's
Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light.
I love thee freely, as men strive for Right;
I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise.
I love thee with the passion put to use
In my old grief's, and with my childhood's faith.
I love thee with a love I seemed to lose
With my lost saints -- I love thee with the breath,
Smiles, tears, of all my life! -- and, if God choose,
I shall but love thee better after death.
-How do I love thee? by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

 

GRADUATION

Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken winged bird
Afraid to fly
Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams go
Life is a barren hill
covered with snow.
-Dreams by Langston Hughes

Will we think about tomorrow like we think about now?
Can we survive it out there?
Can we make it somehow?
I guess I thought that this would never end
And suddenly it's like we're women and men
Will the past be a shadow that will follow us 'round?
Will these memories fade when I leave this town?
I keep, I keep thinking that it's not goodbye
Keep on thinking it's a time to fly
As we go on
We remember
All the times we
Had together
And as our lives change
Come whatever
We will still be
Friends Forever
-Partial lyrics to "Graduation" by Vitamin C

Another turning point, a fork stuck in the road.
Time grabs you by the wrist, directs you where to go.
So make the best of this test, and don't ask why.
It's not a question, but a lesson learned in time.

It's something unpredictable, but in the end it's right.
I hope you had the time of your life.

So take the photographs, and still frames in your mind.
Hang it on a shelf in good health and good time.
Tattoos of memories and dead skin on trial.
For what it's worth, it was worth all the while.

It's something unpredictable, but in the end it's right.
I hope you had the time of your life.
-Partial lyrics to "Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life)"
by Green Day

These are the times to remember
Cause it will not last forever.
These are the days to hold onto
Cause we won't although we'll want to.
This is the time, but time is going to change.
I know we have to move somehow,
But I don't want to lose you now.
-Partial Lyrics to "These Are the Times to Remember"
by Billy Joel

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could.
To where it bent in the undergrowth,

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear,
Though as for that, the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I --
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
-The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost

There is a good reason they call these ceremonies "commencement exercises." Graduation is not the end; it's the beginning.
- Orrin Hatch

This is the day your future begins.
- Author Unknown

 

A TRIBUTE TO DADS

Daddy, take my hand in yours and you will plainly see,
How very much I need you now to love and care for me.
Then as my little hand grows, I will need you even more.
Everything I do in life, I have never done before.
Teach me to be kind and loving, sharing and forgiving.
Show me through your acts of love the pure joy of living.
The years will pass by quickly and one day I will be grown,
I will pass what you have taught me onto children of my own.
-- Author Unknown

I am your child
Wherever you go, you take me, too
Whatever I know, I learn from you
Whatever I do, you taught me to do
I am your child
And I am your chance

Whatever will come, will come from me
Tomorrow is won, by winning me
Whatever I am, you taught me to be
I am your hope,
I am your chance,
I am your child

Whatever I am, you taught me to be
I am your hope,
I am your chance,
I am your child.
- "I Am Your Child" by Barry Manilow

When you are a father, and you hear
your children's voices, you will feel that
those little ones are akin to every drop in
your veins; that they are the very flower of
your life and you will cleave so closely to
them that you seem to feel every movement
that they make.
- Honore De Balzac

A father is a person that is forced to endure childbirth without an anesthetic
A father is a person that growls when he feels good . . . and laughs out loud when scared half to death
A father never feels worthy of the worship in a child's eyes.
He's never quite the hero his daughter thinks . . . never quite the man his son believes him to be . . . and this worries him
So he works too hard to try and smooth the rough places in the road for those of his own who will follow him
A father is a person who gets angry when the first school grades aren't as good as he thinks they should be
He scolds his son . . . though he knows it's the teacher's fault
Fathers are persons that give daughters away to other men who aren't nearly good enough . . .
so they can have grandchildren who are smarter than anybody's.
- Paul Harvey

When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.
- Mark Twain

It is much easier to become a father than to be one.
- Kent Nerburn

Sometimes the poorest man leaves his children the richest inheritance.
- Ruth E. Renkel

A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty.
- Author Unknown

There are two lasting bequests we can give our children. One is roots. The other is wings.
- Hodding Carter, Jr.

The guys who fear becoming fathers don't understand that fathering is not something perfect men do, but something that perfects the man. The end product of child raising is not the child but the parent.
- Frank Pittman

 

PICNICS

Life is a picnic,
As you can see,
As long as we have,
You and me.

Throw in a swing,
And a day full of sun,
We'll show you,
How to have some fun.

Add some good food,
And put on a smile,
Don't be in a hurry,
Stay for awhile.

Laugh and giggle,
Eat till you're stuffed.
Have some dessert,
You can't get enough.

Family and friends,
Make good picnic mates,
Because life is too short,
To have empty plates.
- Tobi Payton

Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.
- Voltaire

Hunger is the best sauce in the world.
- Cervantes