Give A Penny, Get A Penny
Give A Penny, Get A Penny
Most gas stations in the South have little change dishes by the register. If you’re paying for a transaction and need an extra penny or two, you simply take one from the dish. People then reciprocate this good turn by dropping a few coins in the dish from time to time, thereby creating a community bank of sorts, based on goodwill.
So in that spirit, this is Southern Plate’s “Give A Penny, Get A Penny” page.” I dearly love positive quotes and am always scouring the web for more so I thought this would be a great place to compile all of those. I’ll post mine, you post yours, and we can all “Give A Penny” when we have one and come back to “Get A Penny” when we need one.
I’ll also draw on these quotes to include at the bottom of my posts and emails that I send out to Southern Plate readers and be sure to credit the person who provided it, so include a link to your blog if you have one.
I would consider it a personal favor if you’d take the time to share a quote of motivation or positivity in the comments section below. Quote yourself, your Mama, someone famous, or our best friend “Anonymous”, it doesn’t matter, long as you drop your penny and then come back on one of those days when you feel like you might need one yourself.
Gratefully,
Christy
Some of my favorite quotes to start us off
“Pretend you’re a star and poke a hole in someone’s darkness”
“Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.” ~Abraham Lincoln
“Squeeze every bit of love you can out of life, and life will HUG you back like never before” ~Ticha from Facebook
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Faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see.
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LIFE is like a vacuum, it sucks!!!
Only if the owner turns on the “Suck Switch”. How about, “life is like Mardi Gras, It parties. or something positive like that. You control your life. Not some “Higher Being”. You. If you require an instruction manual to learn how to function normally in society, There are a bunch of religious instruction manuals out there chock full of rules and regulations on how you supposedly can make life “Not Suck”., Other wise remember that life does not suck, the person that owns the life makes his own life suck. My life is pretty cool and I don’t need an instruction manual to keep it “Not Sucking”. P.S. As Donald Sutherland said in Kelly’s Heroes “Always with the negative Vibe’s”. Also, try to go with the song, “Don’t worry, be happy”. it work’s for me.
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i love all your recipes i have never had southern food before, and your dishes are so easy to make thats one of thing i really enjoy is the step by step meals it,s like you beening in kitchen with me i would rate you a 10 in my book ,thank you very much Christy for opening the doors for folks my like self that never tasted this kind meals
100 years from now it will not matter, What kind of house we lived in, how much money we had, nor what my clothes were like.
But the world my be a little better, because I was important in the life of a child.
The website is like our homes used to be….sharing memorable good food and making wonderful memories to pass down to our family….wonderful words of wisdom and stories you could listen to forever.
This is like my granddaughters party –open to everyone and totally awesome, like that ice cream !! and that juice !!
A full belly is a full mind.
Patience with others is Love
Patience with self is Hope
Patience with God is Faith. Adel Bastravos
To handle yourself ,use your head
To handle others use,your heart. Donald Laird
This is paraphrased from my favourite poet, William Butler Yeats, and goes like this…
“But think where man’s glory most begins and ends…and say that my glory was….that I had such friends”…
I just LOVE that quote….where would we be in this life without our friends????
Love this site Christie, it makes my day!! Great recipes, great words, great everything! Thank you for this…Sincerely, a fan from Canada, Debbe
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Got this from my daughter.
“Always hug with both arms and never be the first to let go”
Your next action could change the world, so make it a good one.
Scars are just tatoos with better stories.
I haven’t failed. I’ve found 10,000 ways that won’t work.
Always be a first rate version of yourself, instead of a second rate version of somebody else.
Happiness is where you find it, seldom where you seek it.
No matter how many candles are on your cake, they don’t compare to how bright you make my world.
Volunteers are unpaid, not because they are worthless, but because they are priceless.
Learn to pause……or nothing worthwhile can catch up with you.
As we grow older, our bodies get shorter and our anecdotes longer.
Hope is the whisper in our sould that tells us all will be well.
Service is the rent we pay for living.
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What goes around comes around !
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Hi-
Please don’t think I’m crazy…but…I was just sitting here thinking about my grandmother (we called her gram), who was an awesome southern cook. She used to make the most incredible butter potatoes, but no one in the family had the recipe. I can’t tell you how many times in the last (can’t believe it’s been almost 30 years) few years I have thought about those potatoes-they were such a part of my childhood.
Anyway, I kid you not, I’m sitting here and I swear I heard my grandmother say look up southern stewed potatoes!! I just did, and found your recipe. It looks exactly like those she prepared!! I’m still in shock-I’m typing like crazy, and getting ready to call my cousin.
Thank you so very, very much!!
Anyway
Sandra, believe me, your comment makes more sense to me than you could ever know.
Hugs to you and your sweet grandmother, who is clearly still with you!
Thank YOU so very very much!
Gratefully,
Christy
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YOU ARE WHO YOU ARE……SO BE YOURSELF AT ALL TIMES.
Later on no one will be shocked or disapointed.
Gr Grandma Shirley
Quick!!!! Put your left hand over your right shoulder and your right hand over your left shoulder! That was a quick hug from me!!!!
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You can count the seeds in an apple, you can’t count the apples in a seed.
Live like you are wearing your skinny jeans and dance like nobody is watching!
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Sometimes we get inspiration from unexpected places. Both of the quotes below are from songs that I had heard for years but never really listened to the words. I think sometimes we just need to slow down and listen to ‘hear’ answers and messages of hope that come from all around us.
So often times it happens, that we live our lives in chains… and we never even know we have the key… (The Eagles)
Life’s a dance we learn as we go, sometimes we lead, sometimes we follow, don’t worry ’bout what you don’t know, life’s a dance we learn as we go.
(John Michael Montgomery)
“People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.”
–Lewis Cass,
American military officer and politician
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Regarding our children…
More is CAUGHT than Taught!!
My Grandma always said, “No matter how bad you might think your day is, there is always a better tomorrow.”
Don’t think of yourself as old, think of yourself as chronologically gifted!
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Hi Christy,
Just love the positive feed back you always put on this site…….so sweet and inspiring.
And of course love the food recipes you share with all of us….what a treat I have each day in my mail.
Homegrown Southern Girl,
Medrith G. Hamilton
We are all responsible for who we become….
Either you control your attitude or it controls you….
Romans 8:28
And we know that to them that love God, all things work together for good, even to them that are called according to his purpose.
“Keep on doing what you’re doing, and you’ll keep on getting what you’ve been getting”.
One day your life will flash before your eyes, make sure it’s worth watching.
Can’t express in words what a blessing your website has been to me! I’ve preordered your book and paln to maybe give as gifts this Christmas. Thank you so much for all the cheerful posts and the emails.
”How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong, because someday in your life you will have been all of these.”
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Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.
hey Christy – your website is so fun “it has me more excited than a pig stuck under a gate”. It’s not really a quote, but I say it all the time. I think it gets my point across!
There are a lot of ways to make a difference in the world. One of the most important is the way you raise your children.
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“Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.”
– Thomas A. Edison
The END is the NEW beginning.
Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
Mark Twain
A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.
Harry Truman
As you slide down the banister of life, may the splinters never point in the wrong direction.
(Irish Saying)
Saw the above saying on a t-shirt on a day that I really needed to life. Wanted to pass it along.
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In every adversity of life, there is the seed of an even greater opportunity. ~ Napoleon Hill (Think and Grow Rich)
From a teacher on her first day of school for this year, our kids come in on Tuesday!
I get up every morning determined to both change the world and have . . . a good time. Sometimes this makes planning my day difficult. ~ E. B. White (1899 – 1985)
Love this one, I got it at a teacher training this summer.
Life is short – get out there and do something ‘outside’ your own personal box!
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If my Body wears out where will I live
Women are Angels
And when someone breaks our wings….
we simply continue to fly………
on a broomstick…
We are flexible….
Ride on Sisters-Ride on! (Mary Schmidt)
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