Rock and Roll is here to Stay!

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Rock and roll is about desire, about wanting something better. My understanding of the rock and roll dream is that a kid in an isolated place or a small town or an underprivileged world could transcend it somehow.       Bobbie Ann Mason

Friendship should never be neglected or else it will end.

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False friends are like your shadow; 

they follow you in the sun, 

but leave your side when it gets dark.

“Look on every ending as a beginning somewhere Else.”

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“A season of loneliness and isolation is when the caterpillar gets its wings.

 Remember that next time you feel alone.” 

― Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass

“Nothing burns like the Cold.”

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“A cold wind was blowing from the north, and it made the trees rustle like living things.” 

― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

When you make a Choice, you change the Future.

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The future rewards those who press on. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I'm going to press on. 

Barack Obama

Merry Christmas from New York

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"The color of Springtime is Green; the color of Winter is in our Imagination."

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“If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome."
― Anne Bradstreet

“Forgiveness means it Finally Becomes Unimportant that you Hit Back.”

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Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. 

Martin Luther King, Jr.

We cannot direct the Wind, but we can adjust the Sails.

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Skyscraper National Park

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“I was lucky to live in New York when it was dangerous and edgy and cheap enough to play host to young, penniless artists. That was the era of "coffee shops" as they were defined in New York—cheap restaurants open round the clock where you could eat for less than it would cost to cook at home. That was the era of ripped jeans and dirty T-shirts, when the kind of people who are impressed by material signs of success were not the people you wanted to know.” 

― Edmund White 

Your Decisions Shape your Destiny.

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In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.       Theodore Roosevelt

Turn your Face to the Sun and the Shadows Fall behind you.

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Light and shadow are opposite sides of the same coin. We can illuminate our paths or darken our way. It is a matter of choice.

Maya Angelou

Wild Horses roam the Beaches of Corolla

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 The origins of the Wild Colonial Spanish Mustangs date back nearly 500 years, making them the earliest settlers of the Outer Banks, and some of the earliest residents, second only to the local Native American tribes.   https://www.outerbanks.com/corolla-wild-horses.html

All God's Angels come to us Disguised.

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“A Drunk Man’s Words are a Sober Man’s Thoughts.”

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“I’m on a whisky diet. I’ve lost three days already.”

                            ~ Tommy Cooper

“Life is like an Autumn; short but colourful.”

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“The leaves fall, the wind blows, and the farm country slowly changes from the summer cottons into its winter wools.” 

― Henry Beston

There is only one place to eat a great Cheesesteak!

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I see far stronger and more charismatic personalities strolling around Philadelphia's neighborhoods than are being featured in most of today's bland daytime soaps. 
Camille Paglia

Keep Calm and Love Flamingos

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A flock of flirting flamingos is pure, passionate, pink pandemonium-a frenetic flamingle-mangle-a discordant discotheque of delirious dancing, flamboyant feathers, and flamingo lingo.

Charley Harper

“What a lovely thing a rose is!”

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Firefighters don't go on Strike!

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Firemen never die, they just burn forever in the hearts of the people whose lives they saved.

Susan Diane Murphree

Lady Liberty on Broadway

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Nearly all Americans have ancestors who braved the oceans-liberty-loving risk takers in search of an ideal-the largest voluntary migrations in recorded history. Across the Pacific, across the Atlantic, they came from every point on the compass-many passing beneath the Statue of Liberty-with fear and vision, with sorrow and adventure, fleeing tyranny or terror, seeking haven, and all seeking hope...Immigration is not just a link to America's past; it's also a bridge to America's future.                                George H. W. Bush

Holy Cow!

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I don't like looking back. I'm always constantly looking forward. I'm not the one to sort of sit and cry over spilt milk. I'm too busy looking for the next cow. 

Gordon Ramsay

Life takes us to unexpected places... love brings us home.

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 “Man wanted a home, a place for warmth, or comfort, first of physical warmth, then the warmth of the affections.” 

― Henry David Thoreau, Walden

Nothing makes a person happier than having a happy heart.

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“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.” 

― J.R.R. Tolkien

Life is a Great Sunrise

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There was never a night or a problem that could defeat sunrise or hope.       Bernard Williams