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
“Life is what happens while we make plans” Do you realize how true this is? Seems if I make plans for something life steps in and changes them .
Love all the recipes. Keep up the great work and congratulations on the book.
Beckie Parker
Kansas
“You know, some things don’t matter that much. Like the color of a house. How big is that in the overall scheme of life? But lifting a person’s heart—now, that matters. The whole problem with people is…they know what matters, but they don’t choose it…The hardest thing on earth is choosing what matters.” – Sue Monk Kid
“If you see someone without a smile, give them yours!” – Dolly Parton
Christy, don’t know if this would be considered a positive quote or not but it’s something that my grandmother told me when I was a teenager and I’ve never forgotten it:
“Lorrie girl, don’t you never wear no red dress, ’cause red just drives men wild and you can’t never tell what they might do.”
Love it!!
My grandmother always told me “you can’t wear black or red because those colors are for sexy people!” LOL
“There’s no substitute for guts.” ~ Paul William “Bear” Bryant, University of Alabama football coach
“You either have to be first, best or different.” ~ Loretta Lynn
“It is never too late to be what you might have been.” ~ George Eliot
I have a journal in which I write down quotes and passages that are thought provoking and that tug at my heart. Here are a few of my favorites (the first one is my all-time favorite). Hope you enjoy them.
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
One can do without people, but one has need of a friend. Chinese Proverb
Don’t be afraid that your life will end – be afraid that it will never begin. Anonymous
Home and family are not always what you are born into but in the people and places where you find love. Oprah Winfrey
Long friendships are like jewels, polished over time to become beautiful and enduring. Celia Brayfield, Woman and Home, 1997
I’m not strong, she’s not strong. But together my friend and I make the strongest force in the known universe. Linda McFarlane
“Don’t worry about the world coming to an end today. Its already tomorrow in Australia” Charles Schultz……this is a personal favorite as me and my family were posted to Australia for the past 3 years thanks to the US Army. We loved it there. We are now in Northern Virginia, the hubby is posted to Washington DC. I can get back to my South Georgia roots and Southern Cooking 🙂