Spring is Coming!
“Poor March. It is the homeliest month of the year. Most of it is mud, Every Imaginable Form of mud, and what isn’t mud in March is ugly late-season snow falling onto the ground in filthy muddy heaps that look like piles of dirty laundry.”
– Vivian Swift
“Indoors or out, no one relaxes in March, that month of wind and taxes, the wind will presently disappear, the taxes last us all the year.”
– Ogden Nash
“Spring is the time of plans and projects.”
– Leo Tolstoy
“If people did not love one another, I really don’t see what use there would be in having any spring.”
– Victor Hugo
“Despite the forecast, live like it’s spring.”
– Lilly Pulitzer
“Come with me into the woods where spring is advancing, as it does, no matter what, not being singular or particular, but one of the forever gifts, and certainly visible.”
– Mary Oliver
“Springtime is the land awakening. The March winds are the morning yawn.”
– Lewis Grizzard
“I love spring anywhere, but if I could choose I would always greet it in a garden.”
– Ruth Stout
Read Across America Day
March 2
“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies…. The man who never reads lives only one.”
– George R.R. Martin
“It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.”
– Oscar Wilde
“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
– Stephen King
“Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.”
– Charles William Eliot
“You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
– Ray Bradbury
“Think before you speak. Read before you think.”
– Fran Lebowitz
St. Patrick’s Day
“We have always found the Irish to be a bit cold. They refuse to be English.”
– Winston Churchill
“There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting.”
– John Millington Synge
Geographically, Ireland is a medium-sized rural island that is slowly but steadily being consumed by sheep.”
– Dave Barry
For each petal on the shamrock, it brings a wish your way. Good health, good luck and happiness, for today and every day.”
– Author Unknown
Do you suppose it’s true, that St. Partick was a parselmouth, and his muggle friends never knew?”
– David J. Beard
International Women’s Day
March 8
“I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.”
– Anaïs Nin
“Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.”
– Nora Ephron
“Extremists have shown what frightens them most: a girl with a book.”
– Malala Yousafzai
“Some women fear the fire; some women simply become it.”
– R.H. Sin
“Our power is in our diversity, and with diversity comes new knowledge and new truths.”
– Medea Khmelidze
“Be a girl with a mind, a woman with attitude, and a lady with class.”
– Unknown
“Women are like tea bags. You never know how strong they are until you put them in hot water.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
“A strong woman understands that the gifts such as logic, decisiveness and strength are just as feminine as intuition and emotional connection. She values and uses all her gifts.”
– Nancy Rathburn
“I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.”
– Mother Teresa
“I am an example of what is possible when girls from the very beginning of their lives are loved and nurtured by people around them. I was surrounded by extraordinary women in my life who taught me about quiet strength and dignity.”
– Michelle Obama
“Women, if the soul of the nation is to be saved, I believe that you must become its soul.”
– Coretta Scott King