"People ask me what I do in winter  when there's no baseball.
I'll tell you what I do.
I stare out the window and  wait for spring."
  ~~Rogers  Hornsby

"When a child comes in,
I believe  that it's a 'multipersonhood,' and it knows it,
its consciousness knows it,
and  it has a nuclei in the center of its consciousness that is the repository of all  experience and all knowledge. And when you look in the eyes of your baby and you feel this sense that they are an old soul,
I believe indeed they  are."
  ~~Shirley  MacLaine

"Never lend your car to anyone to  whom you have given birth."
  ~~Erma  Bombeck

“The faithful person is like a pump which brings up water by the bucketful
when it has been primed with a cup or two.
The useless wandering of the imagination is discontinued and the life becomes raised in all.
Those  who have been helped are aware that such a person has ministered life to them without words.”
  ~~From Barclay's Apology in Modern English

“Like winds and sunsets,
wild things were taken for granted until progress began to do away with them.
Now we face the question whether a still higher 'standard of living' is worth its cost in things
natural, wild and free.” 
  ~~Aldo Leopold

"Fear can be good when you're  walking past an alley at night,
 or when you need to check the locks on your doors  before you go to bed,
but it's not good when you have a goal and you're fearful  of obstacles.
We often get trapped by our fears,
but anyone who has had success  has failed before."
  ~~Queen  Latifah

"In necessary things, unity;
in  doubtful things, liberty;
in all things, charity."
  ~~Anne  Baxter

"The Guns"
2014 Winners

"Sugaring season is the season when  you tap the trees for sugar that turns into maple syrup.
I've married someone  from Vermont,
so it's an expression I kept hearing,
and I'm like, 'What is that?  That's just so beautiful.'
I like the idea.
It's the very, very first murmurings  of spring."
  ~~Beth  Orton