Labor Day
“Without labor nothing prospers.”
– Sophocles
“There is precious little hope to be got out of whatever keeps us industrious, but there is a chance for us whenever we cease work and become stargazers.”
– H.M. Tomlinson
“Labor Day is a glorious holiday because your child will be going back to school the next day. It would have been called Independence Day, but that name was already taken.”
– Bill Dodds
“The candidate out front on Labor Day has historically been the one who stayed ahead in November.”
– Peter Jennings
“I’m a great believer in luck. I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.”
– Thomas Jefferson
“Nobody can think straight who does not work. Idleness warps the mind.”
– Henry Ford
“No man needs sympathy because he has to work, because he has a burden to carry. Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.”
– Theodore Roosevelt
National Read a Book Day – September 6
“No two persons ever read the same book.”
– Edmund Wilson
“If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
“There comes a time when you have to choose between turning the page and closing the book.”
– Josh Jameson
“Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.”
– P.J. O’Rourke
“Anyone who says they have only one life to live must not know how to read a book.”
– Author Unknown
“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
– Haruki Murakami
Grandparents Day – September 11
“A child needs a grandparent, anybody’s grandparent, to grow a little more securely into an unfamiliar world.”
– Charles and Ann Morse
“Becoming a grandmother is wonderful. One moment you’re just a mother. The next you are all-wise and prehistoric.”
– Pam Brown
“A grandfather is someone with silver in his hair and gold in his heart.”
– Author Unknown
“My grandkids believe I’m the oldest thing in the world. And after two or three hours with them, I believe it, too.”
– Gene Perret
“The best baby-sitters, of course, are the baby’s grandparents. You feel completely comfortable entrusting your baby to them for long periods, which is why most grandparents flee to Florida.”
– Dave Barry
Autumn
“I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.”
– L.M. Montgomery
“Don’t you love … the fall? It makes me want to buy school supplies. I would send you a bouquet of newly sharpened pencils if I knew your name and address.”
– Nora Ephron
“Autumn burned brightly, a running flame through the mountains, a torch flung to the trees.”
– Faith Baldwin
Back to School
“Often, when I am reading a good book, I stop and thank my teacher. That is, I used to, until she got an unlisted number.”
– Author Unknown
“Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.”
– Abbé Dimnet
“Education is learning what you didn’t even know you didn’t know.”
– Daniel J. Boorstin
“You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives.”
– Clay P. Bedford