Along the winding roads of the Virginia Blue Ridge sits this reminder of days gone by. Pull up, read the menu, honk your horn, order your food, eat in the car. No Tables! After your meal drive up the hill to the Starlight Drive-In and catch a first run movie on a warm summer night. Both reminders of a time gone by. Enjoy a the night and a flick and some popcorn.
Now for the days business....
"Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me." ~ Bertrand Russell philosopher, mathematician, author, Nobel laureate (1872-1970)
"Who never sold the truth to serve the hour, nor paltered with Eternal God for power." ~ Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892), poet laureate, eulogizing the Duke of Wellington.
"In Ireland, for a few years more, we have a popular imagination that is fiery and magnificent, and tender; so that those of us who wish to write start with a chance that is not given to writers in places where the springtime of the local life has been forgotten, and the harvest is a memory only, and the straw has been turned into bricks." ~ John Millington Synge
"If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing." ~ Kingsley Amis
"Politics is opposed to morality, as philosophy to naïveté." ~ Emmanuel Levinas
"The supreme paradox of all thought is the attempt to discover something that thought cannot think." ~ Søren Kierkegaard
"Liberality consists rather in giving reasonably than much." ~ La Bruyere
"It is sweet to be remembered. But it is often cheaper to be forgotten." ~ Kin Hubbard
"If you want to know your past - look into your present conditions. If you want to know your future - look into your present actions." ~ Buddhist Saying
"Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!" ~ Lewis Carroll, mathematician and writer (1832-1898)
"I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste." ~ Lucille Ball
"Nothing so completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straightforward and simple integrity in another." ~ Charles Caleb Colton, author and clergyman (1780-1832)
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have little." ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
"The beloved of the Almighty are the rich who have the humility of the poor, and the poor who have the magnanimity of the rich." ~ Saadi, poet (1184-1291)
"All our knowledge falls within the bounds of possible experience." ~ Immanuel Kant
"Life is short. Be swift to love! Make haste to be kind!" ~ Henri Frederic Amiel philosopher and writer (1821-1881)
"The will does not choose between good and evil; it is its choice, rather, that makes it good or evil." ~ Karl Jaspers
"Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, then that of blindfolded fear." ~ Thomas Jefferson, third US president, architect and author (1743-1826)
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