koren56

I'm a nurse working with the elderly. I have 4 sons, 2 grandsons, 3 step-grandsons, and finally 2 granddaughters. I live in rural Minnesota. I love non-fiction with a little fiction thrown in for variety. I have 2 groups here on Shelfari: The True Crime group and the Biography, Autobiography and Memoir group. Stop by and join!... more »

I'm a nurse working with the elderly. I have 4 sons, 2 grandsons, 3 step-grandsons, and finally 2 granddaughters. I live in rural Minnesota. I love non-fiction with a little fiction thrown in for variety. I have 2 groups here on Shelfari: The True Crime group and the Biography, Autobiography and Memoir group. Stop by and join!
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"In books lies the soul of the whole Past Time; the articulate audible voice of the Past, when the body and material substance of it has altogether vanished like a dream." -Thomas Carlyle

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"All that mankind has done, thought, gained or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books." -Thomas Carlyle

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"What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books."- Thomas Carlyle

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We could learn a lot from crayons... Some are sharp, some are pretty and some are dull. Some have weird names, and all are different colors, but they all have to live in the same box.
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LIFE IS NOT MEASURED BY THE NUMBER OF BREATHS WE TAKE, BUT BY THE NUMBER OF MOMENTS THAT TAKE OUR BREATH AWAY!!!
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I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”- Maya Angelou « less