Walking Quotes

Colonial Lake, Charleston, SC 

There are times when I have to take, I call it a 'silence bath',

where I shut off all the external gadgets. 

I go walk around, talk to people, and just live life for a while.

Patton Oswalt 

Charleston Quotes

South Battery, Charleston, SC 

“Walking the streets of Charleston in the late afternoons of August 

was like walking through gauze or inhaling damaged silk.”

Pat Conroy

New Year Quotes

Charleston, SC    

"New Year's Day is every man's birthday."

Charles Lamb

Walking Quotes

Queen St., Charleston, SC   

The last Friday of the year and a pay day. Bingo! I came home from work, ordered pizza and crashed. This a delicious no-man's land week in between Christmas and New Years with no meetings scheduled and time to catch up, close out and get ready for the new year. I interviewed three terrific new hospital volunteer applicants today so it was well worth being in the office.

I did not go for one of my long walks this evening but fully intend to keep up the practice in 2018 as long as my legs will carry me. I am sharing this quote about walking:

Charleston Quotes

Chalmers St., Charleston, SC    

Charleston is one of the best built, handsomest,

and most agreeable cities that I have ever seen.” 

Marquis de Lafayette

Charleston Quotes

Charleston, SC 

Charleston has a landscape that encourages intimacy and partisanship. I have heard it said that an inoculation to the sights and smells of the Carolina lowcountry is an almost irreversible antidote to the charms of other landscapes, other alien geographies. You can be moved profoundly by other vistas, by other oceans, by soaring mountain ranges, but you can never be seduced. You can even forsake the lowcountry, renounce it for other climates, but you can never completely escape the sensuous, semitropical pull of Charleston and her marshes.

Pat Conroy

Walking Quotes

Thoreau, Lake City, SC   

I found a few good walking quotes in a botanical display in Lake City, SC

Live out of your Imagination

Gateway Walk, King St., Charleston, SC   

I always pause to read the featured quote on the gate to the Unitarian Universalist Church entrance to the Gateway Walk on King St. This was struck me a funny for Charleston where we treasure history so.

Here is a complete map to the Gateway Walk which includes some of my favorite spots and more details about the Garden Club's early project.

The Garden Club’s first civic project was the dream of Mrs. C. P. McGowan, president from 1928 to 1930. The Gateway walk, after visiting a peaceful garden in Paris.   Landscape architect Loutrel Briggs designed the original walk which is named for the ten wrought iron gates along its course through the city. Entrance to the Gateway Walk. The walk begins at the gates of St. John’s Lutheran Church on Archdale Street, crosses King Street and Meeting Street, and concludes at St. Philip’s Episcopal Church. It opened in 1930 to coincide with the 250th anniversary of the founding of Charleston. The club maintains the walk with proceeds from its fundraising projects.

Butterflies

“The caterpillar does all the work, but the butterfly gets all the publicity.” 

― George Carlin

“I have no problem overcoming the butterflies in my stomach. 

Of course, neither do the fish I thought I caught with my butterfly net.” 
― Jarod Kintz, 99 Cents For Some Nonsense

“Butterflies are not insects,' Captain John Sterling said soberly.

'They are self-propelled flowers.” 
― Robert A. Heinlein, The Cat Who Walks Through Walls

“Well, I must endure the presence of a few caterpillars if I wish to 

become acquainted with the butterflies.” 
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

Christmas Quotes by Famous Folks

Charleston, S.C.

Christmas creates a happy and pleasant atmosphere for most people, but the Christmas atmosphere can be hard to describe in words. Here you have a series of great quotes about Christmas phrased by famous people.

1. Agnes M. Pharo: What is Christmas? It is tenderness for the past, courage for the present, hope for the future. It is a fervent wish that every cup may overflow with blessings rich and eternal, and that every path may lead to peace.

2. Carol Nelson: Christmas is a time when you get homesick – even when you’re home.

3. Helen Keller: The only blind person at Christmastime is he who has not Christmas in his heart.

4. Harlan Miller: Probably the reason we all go so haywire at Christmas time with the endless unrestrained and often silly buying of gifts is that we don’t quite know how to put our love into words.

5. Shirley Temple: I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph.

6. Norman Vincent Peale: Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.

7. Mary Ellen Chase: Christmas, children, is not a date. It is a state of mind.

8. W.J. Cameron:There has been only one Christmas – the rest are anniversaries.

9. Larry Wilde: Never worry about the size of your Christmas tree. In the eyes of children, they are all 30 feet tall.

10. Charles Dickens: I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.

Friday's message

Marion Square, Charleston, S.C.

Friday's message:

"Press yourself against whatever you find to be beautiful and trembling with life."

Quote of the Day

Charleston, S.C.

"Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like."
— Lemony Snicket

The colors pleased me and the quote made me smile. G'night kids!

Kindness

Be Kind, Rutledge Ave., Charleston, S.C.

When I was young, I used to admire intelligent people; as I grow older, I admire kind people.
Abraham Joshua Heschel

Famous Charleston Quotes

Not my house, Charleston, S.C.

Scarlett: Rhett! Rhett, where are you going?
Rhett Butler: I'm going back to Charleston, back where I belong.
Scarlett: Please, please take me with you!
Rhett Butler: No, I'm through with everything here. I want peace. I want to see if somewhere there isn't something left in life of charm and grace. Do you know what I'm talking about?
Scarlett: No! I only know that I love you.
Rhett Butler: That's your misfortune.

Famous Charleston Quotes

Magnolia Plantation, S.C.

Scarlett: Cathleen, who's that?
Cathleen Calvert: Who?
Scarlett: That man looking at us and smiling. The nasty, dark one.
Cathleen Calvert: My dear, don't you know? That's Rhett Butler. He's from Charleston. He has the most terrible reputation.
Scarlett: He looks as if... as if he knows what I look like without my shimmy.

Spring is Sprung

Archdale st., Charleston, S.C.

Spring is sprung

Da grass is riz

I wonder where dem boidies iz

Da little boids is on da wing

Ain't dat absoid

Da little wings is on da boid

Anonymous

Look ma! No alarm clock!

I still woke up at the crack of Ye Olde Dawn but I am cool with that as long as I don't have to leap out of bed. I have a green house, green car, green porch today with a thick layer of pollen on everything. The doors and window are open and I have flowers to plant and winter legs to shave.

Is everyone off today? Whatcha all up to fun?

Pouring Rain

Charleston, S.C.

Weather is a great metaphor for life,
sometimes it's good,
sometimes it's bad,
and there's nothing much you can do about it
but carry an umbrella.

Pepper Giardino

A tiger, a pig, an ass and a nightingale......

Spring St., Charleston, SC

I found this quote on Amplesanity, where I find so many treats. What's winning in your heart this evening?

"In each human heart are a tiger, a pig, an ass and a nightingale. Diversity of character is due to their unequal activity." Ambrose Bierce

Church Photo in Lieu of Attendance

St. Michael's Church, Charleston, SC

St. Michael’s Church is the oldest church edifice in the City of Charleston, standing on the site of the first Anglican Church built south of Virginia. In the 1680’s a small wooden church, the first in the new town of Charles Town, was built on this spot for the families of the Church of England, and named St. Philip’s. By 1727, the town had grown too large for the small church and a more spacious one was built of brick on Church Street, later destroyed by fire in 1835.

It's tradition. I have to feature a Church Photo in Lieu of Attendance. Put the money in the collection box as you leave.

Our word of wisdom for the day is from Aldous Huxley:

It's a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than 'Try to be a little kinder.'

I have a busy week ahead. Let's hope everyone remembers to be a little kinder.

Doesn't matter. Makes me smile.

College of Charleston Cistern, Charleston, SC

One of my favorite pastimes is looking at what search words people entered that landed them on my site. Sadly this is what folks they found when they looked for Brunch on King. A popular search seems to be for pictures of the College of Charleston so we'll feature one of those today. I could run the whole show by producing pictures of what people looked for but it would still be a day late. I want to run after them yelling, no! come back! I really do have what you were looking for!

Meanwhile, since I've gathered you together, I am going to share some of the nifty quotes that amplesanity finds to begin her entries.

"My mission is to kill time and time's to kill me in its turn. How comfortable one is among murderers." Emile M. Cioran

"I'm sick of following my dreams. I'm just going to ask them where they're goin', and hook up with them later." Mitch Hedberg

"One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." A. A. Milne

"Creative work only seems like a magic trick to people who don't understand that it's ultimately still work." Merlin Mann

"But what could one possibly do with that?" "Doesn't matter. Makes me smile."