“We got my 10-year-old grandson and headed outside barefoot in the 15-degree temperature. We got in the car and called the Fire Department back from my cell phone.”
Dianne Jones
“"Old times" never come back and I suppose it's just as well. What comes back is a new morning every day in the year, and that's better.”
George E. Woodberry
“The Old Year has gone. Let the dead past bury its own dead. The New Year has taken possession of the clock of time. All hail the duties and possibilities of the coming twelve months!”
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Edward Payson Powell
“A bird sang sweet and strongIn the top of the highest tree,He said, "I pour out my heart in songFor the summer that soon shall be."But deep in the shady wood,Another bird sang, "I pourMy heart on the solemn solitudeFor the springs that return no more."”
George William Curtis
“That it shall never come again is what makes life so sweet”
Emily Dickinson
“My pipe is out, my glass is dry; My fire is almost ashes too; But once again, before you go, And I prepare to meet the New : Old Year! a parting word that's true, For we've been comrades, you and I - I thank God for each day of you; There! bless yo”
Robert Service
“We'd had a very funny year that year. We had the lowest rainfall since 1871 and the highest temperatures - it was 92 in Concord the week before, and that was in April, mind you - and it was warm and windy that day.”
Charlie Strickland
