Learning Disabilities Day Services - The Heather Lane nursery is community horticultural project which provides a place where adults with learning disabilities can contribute to a working environment.
"What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin Disability Resources All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama Disability Resources
"Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. Disability Resources Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) Disability Resources
"One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan Disability Resources We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins Disability Resources
Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words Disability Resources "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry Disability Resources
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken Disability Resources Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton Disability Resources
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude Disability Resources "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr Disability Resources
"See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician Disability Resources I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, Disability Resources
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Disability Resources "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov Disability Resources
Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Disability Resources I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore Disability Resources
There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) Disability Resources "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman Disability Resources
You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. Disability Resources The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland Disability Resources
