Scrapbooking Quotes

• It becomes increasingly easy, as you get older, to drown in nostalgia.

  Ted Koppel

  Nostalgia, Easy

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• The challenge of history is to recover the past and introduce it to the present.

  David P. Thelen

  Past, History, Challenges

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• Go back. Go back in time. Everyone's life is a chain of memories. In each chain there are shining links, happenings where this element of wonder...was very strong. Why don't you reach out and relive some of those memories? If you work at it, remembering the wonder can revive your ability to live life as it should be lived.

  Arthur Gordon Webster

  Strong, Memories, Live Life

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• I love scrapbooks. They are one of the finest ways of dejunking life and abode... A good scrapbook is interesting and inspiring even to the stranger...Well put together scrapbooks and photo albums have warmed more hearts than any bound book... Without a good scrapbook, much that's memorable in life is forgotten or damaged or lost.

  Don Aslett

  Book, Memorable, Heart

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• I cannot see that art is anything less than a way of making joys perpetual.

  Rebecca West

  Art, Joy, Way

  Rebecca West (2010). “The Strange Necessity: Essays and Reviews”, p.120, Open Road Media

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• I am not a historian. I am a writer obsessed with remembering, with remembering the past

  Eduardo Galeano

  Past, Remember, Obsessed

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• Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure, a sense of nothing having been done before, of complete freedom to experiment.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Art, Adventure, Done

  Alfred North Whitehead, Lucien Price (2001). “Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead”, p.169, David R. Godine Publisher

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• One of the deepest impulses in man is the impulse to record, - to scratch a drawing on a tusk or keep a diary, to collect sagas and heap cairns. This instinct as to the enduring value of the past is, one might say, the very basis of civilization.

  John Jay Chapman

  Past, Men, Civilization

  John Jay Chapman (1970). “The Collected Works of John Jay Chapman: Criticism & memoirs”

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• Above all, art should be fun.

  Alexander Calder

  Art, Fun, Should

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• All the past up to a moment ago is your legacy. You have a right to it.

  Robert Henri

  Past, Legacy, Moments

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• But I believe that there are marriages where you can have your pool table and she can have her scrapbooking room or garden or whatever it is. But when everyone has what they want, it's not funny. There's no conflict.

  Brad Garrett

  Family, Believe, Garden

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• Even the most painstaking history is a bridge across an eternal mystery.

  Bruce Catton

  Bridges, History, Mystery

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• A picture is poem without words.

  Confucius

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• Arrange whatever pieces come your way.

  Virginia Woolf

  Education, Laughter, Inspiration

  Virginia Woolf (2003). “A Writer's Diary”, p.92, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• My friends have made the story of my life.

  Helen Keller

  Healing, Stories, Teens

  Helen Keller (2016). “The Story of My Life”, p.85, Om Books International

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• If you're not having fun, you're doing it wrong.

  Alex Bogusky

  Fun, Having Fun, Ifs

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• And I'll bury my soul in a scrapbook, with the photographs there and the moths.

  Leonard Cohen

  Soul, Vienna, Catchy

  Leonard Cohen, “Take This Waltz”

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• Buy the ticket, take the ride.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Fun, Vegas, Fear And Loathing

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Songs of the Doomed: More Notes on the Death of the American Dream”, p.238, Pan Macmillan

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• Keep some souvenirs of your past, or how will you ever prove it wasn't all a dream?

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Inspirational, Positive, Dream

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• A happy childhood can't be cured. Mine'll hang around my neck like a rainbow, that's all, instead of a noose.

  Hortense Calisher

  Children, Memories, Rainbow

  Hortense Calisher (1971). “Queenie: a novel”, McNally & Loftin Publishers

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• My themes will not be far-fetched. I will tell of homely every-day phenomena and adventures.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Adventure, Simplicity, Theme

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.168, Courier Corporation

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• Kindness gives birth to kindness.

  Sophocles

  Inspirational, Kindness, Giving

  Sophocles, Robert POTTER (Prebendary of Norwich.) (1813). “The Tragedier of Sophocles; Translated by R. Potter. A New Edition”, p.260

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• When people tell me they are going to go scrapbooking, I say, 'Why don't you make it yourself.' It's like chocolate-chip cookies. People buy the cookie-dough roll and slice it, and then they lay it on a cookie sheet. That's not making chocolate-chip cookies.

  Amy Sedaris

  People, Chocolate, Cookies

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• Our duty is to preserve what the past has had to say for itself, and to say for ourselves what shall be true for the future.

  John Ruskin

  Birthday, Time, Past

  John Ruskin (1850). “Modern Painters: pt. 4. Of many things”, p.94

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• There are exactly as many special occasions in life as we choose to celebrate.

  Robert Breault

  Positive, Fall, Thinking

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