QUIPS & QUOTES

Selected by Debra Tweedy

I stuck my head out the window this morning and Spring kissed me bang in the face.

--Langston Hughes, American poet and social activist, 1901-1967

Health is the thing that makes you feel like now is the the best time of the year.

--Franklin Pierce Adams, American columnist, 1881-1960

Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.

--Sir Michael Caine, English actor, 1933-

I think, at a child’s birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.

--Eleanor Roosevelt, American First Lady, diplomat, activist, and writer, 1884-1962 Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall; A mother’s secret hope outlives them all.

--Oliver Wendell Holmes, American physician, poet, polymath, 1809-1894

Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children.

--Alex Haley, American writer, 1921-1992

I believe that dreams—day dreams, you know, with your eyes wide open and your brain machinery whizzing—are likely to lead to the betterment of the world. The imaginative child will become the imaginative man or woman most apt to create, to invent, and therefore to foster civilization.

--L. Frank Baum, American author, 18561919

Let’s be cheerful! We have no more right to steal the brightness out of the day for our own family than we have to steal the purse of a stranger. Let us be as careful that our homes are furnished with pleasant and happy thoughts as we are that the rugs are the right color and texture and the furniture comfortable and beautiful.

--Laura Ingalls Wilder, American writer and teacher, 1867-1957

Longview native Debra Tweedy has lived on four continents. She and her husband decided to return to her hometown and bought a house facing Lake Sacajawea.“We came back because of the Lake and the Longview Public Library,” she says.

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The Good, The Bad, But Not That Ugly

A bove A ll things R.A. Long and the founders wanted to build a “good” place to live and work. This echoes through their letters, speeches and conversations.

It seems a simple distinction, good versus bad. It’s not. Every generation, we think we’ve figured it out. And then a few years later, time and change give us pause. We revise, reconsider, reconstruct.

Such is the case now, as Longview celebrates its centennial. The country is rife with grievance and grudges. Zealots are raking over our history, tearing down statues, or fighting change and enlightenment with their heads in the sand and middle fingers extended.