My First Fun Monday!

Anyone with a blog can participate in a Fun Monday, so if you’re a blogger, please feel free to join the group. Each week a host blogger picks a topic, and all the participants post their response on Monday. This week’s Fun Monday is hosted by Robin @ Pensieve, and the topic is…

Quotable quotes and words that inspire

I love quotes. I can actually sit and read books of just quotes. Of course, I also *taught* myself French when I was eight years old by going through the dictionary and picking out all the words that were derived from that language. I think I made it through "D". Here are a few of my favorites:

“However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.”
Winston Churchill – I really want to email this every morning to most of the people I work with.

“I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.”
Eleanor Roosevelt – A great writer with a delightful sense of humor

“We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.”
Eleanor Roosevelt again – Words to live by.

“Obviously I faced the possibility of not returning when first I considered going. Once faced and settled there really wasn't any good reason to refer to it.”
Amelia Earhart – First on my list of ten people to invite to dinner if I could invite anyone in history. I was pleased to find this quote from her because it is exactly how I feel every time I get on an airplane, which I have to do tomorrow.

“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
Douglas Adams– Nobody else puts it quite so well.

“Tuesday – Same &%^$ as Monday, without the reputation”
KJAQ FM - From my commute last week.

Now go and check out the rest of the Fun Monday entries from the following participants:

Janet, From the Planet of Janet
Swampwitch, Anecdotes, Antidotes & Anodes
Lisa, Lisa's Chaos
Jo, This is Jo Beaufoix...
Patience, Patience-Please
ChrisB, Ms Cellania
Ellen, The Happy Wonderer
Kaytabug, Lady K
Swampangel65, A Florida Journal
Mariposa, Mariposa's TalesAOJ & The Lurchers
Carrie, Carrie & the Koehmstedts
Lisa, The Food Snob
Janjanmom, All in a Day's Work
Jan, The Prytz Family
Karina, Candid Karina
Celeste, Ragracers
Sandy, Myanderings
Alison, RDH Mom
Jenn, Simply Jenn
Pamela, The Dust Will Wait
Alix, DC Days
Deb, Deb's Buzz (One Crazy Stitcher)
Molly, Return of the White Robin
Junebug, God Put a Smile on My Face
Kim, Rainy Day Diamonds
Peculiar, How Do We Get There From Here ** FIRST FUN MONDAY! :)
Jenn V., Jenn's Inklings
Joy T., A Spot of T
Nikki, My Husband Calls Me Weird
Rotten Correspondent, Confessions of a Rotten Correspondent
Sauntering Soul
Jientje, Heaven in Belgium
Tiggerlane, The Neophyte Blogger
Beth, The First of Six
Rose, Rose's Garden ** FIRST FUN MONDAY, new blogger & Karina's mom! :)
Hootin' Anni, Hootin' Anni's
Melanie, Our Happy Happenings
Sayre, SayreSmiles
Jenn, Jenn and the City (FIRST FUN MONDAY!!)
Nutso, House of the Purple Worms