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 from 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
This is one of my all-time-favorite quotes. If you haven’t read Dorothea Benton Frank, you don’t know what you are missing! Christy, you are a delight. Love, Love, Love your cookbook!!!
“True Southerners were pickled from birth in our ancestral marinades of charm and grace.”
-Dorothea Benton Frank, Isle of Palms
Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.
– Saint-Exupery
A smile is the light in the window of your face that tells people you’re at home. ~Author Unknown
I’ve been an “educarer” for 27 years working as both a teacher and school counselor at the elementary level. My mantra comes from a calendar page I saw years and years ago. There was no credit given, so I guess credit goes to the calendar provider: Walter Drake Catalog! Anyway, I just love this: Excellence is not a skill. It’s an attitude.
My English Lit teacher at Sheffield High always had a quote on the board. 45 years later I still remember one-
You would not worry so much about what people think-if you knew how little they did.
1. Happiness is a place between too much and too little.
2. As we strive to give our children the things we never had, let’s not forget to give them the wonderful things we had!!
Unfortunately, I don’t recall where I read either one of these.
Character is who you are when no one else is looking.