Alice Morse Earle famous quotes

The clock is running. Make the most of today. Time waits for no man. Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why it is called the present.
-- Alice Morse Earle

#Running #Men #Yesterday

Every sea-captain who sailed to the West Indies was expected to bring home a turtle on the return voyage for a feast to his expectant friends.
-- Alice Morse Earle

#Home #Turtles #Sea

It is heartrending to read the entries in many an old family Bible - the records of suffering, distress, and blasted hopes.
-- Alice Morse Earle

#Suffering #Records #Distress

The landlord of colonial days may not have been the greatest man in town, but he was certainly the best-known, often the most popular, and ever the most picturesque and cheerful figure.
-- Alice Morse Earle

#Men #Cheerful #May

When the first settlers landed on American shores, the difficulties in finding or making shelter must have seemed ironical as well as almost unbearable.
-- Alice Morse Earle

#Shelter #Firsts #Unbearable

The study of tavern history often brings to light much evidence of sad domestic changes. Many a cherished and beautiful home, rich in annals of family prosperity and private hospitality, ended its days as a tavern.
-- Alice Morse Earle

#Beautiful #Home #Light

The grape Hyacinth is the favorite spring flower of my garden - but no! I though a minute ago the Scilla was! and what place has the Violet? the Flower de Luce? I cannot decide, but this I know - it is some blue flower.
-- Alice Morse Earle

#Spring #Flower #Garden

Half the interest of a garden is the constant exercise of the imagination. You are always living three, or indeed six, months hence. I believe that people entirely devoid of imagination never can be really good gardeners. To be content with the present, and not striving about the future, is fatal.
-- Alice Morse Earle

#Time #Believe #Exercise

Half the interest of a garden is the constant exercise of the imagination.
-- Alice Morse Earle

#Exercise #Garden #Imagination

Every day may not be good... but there's something good in every day
-- Alice Morse Earle

#Inspirational #Positive #Being Strong