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National Cookie Day
December 4
“Empty?! You took all the cookies!” “They were crying to get out of the jar… Cookies get claustrophobia too, you know!”
– Charles M. Schulz
“Early bird gets the worm. But cookie taste better than worm.
“It’s no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.” – Mark Twain
“I was drinking in the surroundings: air so crisp you could snap it with your fingers and greens in every lush shade imaginable offset by autumnal flashes of red and yellow.” – Wendy Delsol
“All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
National Ice Cream Month – July
“Age does not diminish the extreme disappointment of having a scoop of ice cream fall from the cone.”
– Jim Fiebig
“I go running when I have to. When the ice cream truck is doing sixty.”
– Wendy Liebman
“I think the serving size of ice cream is when you hear the spoon hit the bottom of the container.”
– Brian Regan
National Picnic Month – July
“We hope that when insects take over the world, they will remember with gratitude how we took them along on all our picnics.”
– Bill Vaughan
“Among the delights of summer were picnics to the woods.”
– Georg Brandes
“A couple went for a picnic. They have five sons and each son has seven sisters and each sister has three babies. In total, how many people went for the picnic?”
(*see answer at end)
“If ants are such busy workers, how come they find time to go to all the picnics?”
– Marie Dressler
International Joke Day – July 1
“If Plan A fails, remember that you have 25 letters left.”
– Unknown
“If people say they just love the smell of books, I always want to pull them aside and ask, ‘To be clear, do you know how reading works?’”
– @bridger_w
“Been reading up on the thesaurus lately because a mind is a terrible thing to garbage.”
– @dinokitten
“What do you call someone who can’t stick with a diet? A desserter”
– Reader’s Digest
“The cool part about naming your child is you don’t have to add six numbers to make sure the name is available.”
– Bill Murray
“My collection of vintage kitchen utensils includes one whose intended purpose was always a mystery.
National Weather Observer’s Day – May 4
“Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us, snow is exhilarating; there is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.”
– John Ruskin
“Tut, Tut, looks like rain”
– A.A. Milne
“It always rains on tents. Rainstorms will travel thousands of miles, against prevailing winds for the opportunity to rain on a tent.”
– Dave Barry
“I say it’s so hot, the hens are picking up worms with potholders.”
– Julie Trotter
“Don’t knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn’t start a conversation if it didn’t change once in a while.”
– Kin Hubbard
“The weather is like the government, always in the wrong.”
– Jerome K. Jerome
“A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.”
– Marcel Proust
Cinco de Mayo – May 5
“Cinco de Mayo has come to represent a celebration of the contributions that Mexican Americans and all Hispanics have made to America…Latinos have fought in all of America’s wars, beginning with the Revolutionary War. Many Latinos are fighting and dying for our country today in Iraq, just as several of their ancestors fought for freedom in Mexico over a century ago.”
– Joe Baca
National Teachers’ Day – May 8
“Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.”
– Malala Yousafzai
“Education is the key to success in life, and teachers make a lasting impact in the lives of their students.”
– Solomon Ortiz
“If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.”
– A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
“The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.”
– C. S. Lewis
“A good teacher must be able to put himself in the place of those who find learning hard.”
– Eliphas Levi
“Education is improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.”
–Marian Wright Edelman
“The test of a good teacher is not how many questions he can ask his pupils that they will answer readily, but how many questions he inspires them to ask which he finds it hard to answer.”
– Alice Wellington Rollins
“Teaching is the one profession that creates all other professions.”
– Unknown
International Nurses Day – May 12
“Sometimes I inspire my patients; more often they inspire me.”
– Unknown
“Nurse: just another word to describe a person strong enough to tolerate anything and soft enough to understand anyone.”
– Unknown
“To do what nobody else will do, in a way that nobody else can do, in spite of all we go through; that is to be a nurse.”
– Rawsi Williams
Mother’s Day – May 13
“Children are not a distraction from more important work. They are the most important work.”
– C.S. Lewis
“Being a mom might mean that my hands are full, but so is my heart.”
– Unknown
“There is no one perfect way to be a good mother.
“A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.”
– Douglas Adams
“You can’t please people all the time. You aren’t peanut butter.” – Unknown
“Never be limited by other people’s limited imaginations.” – Dr. Mae Jemison, first African-American female astronaut