Cruise Invitation/quote-of-the-day/2021/03/02
"Whatever you do, pour yourself into it." --Robert Mondavi
"Whatever you do, pour yourself into it." --Robert Mondavi
"I rather go to see a good play than be in one." --Alfre Woodard with photo inside Hermitage in St. Petersburg, Russia
“You may have the universe if I may have Italy.” – Giuseppe Verdi and photo of Amalfi Cathedral, Amalfi Coast, Italy
"I want to just sit and not talk and not think and not be the center of everything all the time." --character Lady Caroline Dester in "Enchanted April" by Elizabeth von Arnim
"And in to the ocean I go to lose my mind and find my soul." by unknown with photo of Milford Sound, inlet of the Tasman Sea and part of a UNESCO World Heritage site in Fiordland National Park, South Island, New Zealand
"It's practically impossible to look at a penguin and feel angry." --Joe Moore and photo of yellow-eyed penguin
"Stand tall and proud. Sink your roots into the earth. Be content with your natural beauty. Go out on a limb. Drink plenty of water. Remember your roots. Enjoy the view!" --from "Advice From a Tree" by Ilan Shamir
"One does not always do the best there is. One does the best one can." --Empress Catherine II of Russia (Catherine the Great) with photo in Portrait Gallery of Heroes at the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia
“In spring or Autumn, the most beautiful seasons throughout Montenegro, the city (Kotor) is held spellbound while the sun slips minute by minute down the jagged face of rock, bathing granite and marble in a honeyglowed.” ~ Mary Gordon with photo of Kotor, Montenegro
“You don’t have to be rich to travel well.” – Eugene Fodor with photo of American Flag display in Alaska, USA