Some Random Magnets I made some time ago

Quotes

Giving up doesn't always mean you are weak;

sometimes it means that you are strong enough to let go. Author Unknown

Realationships are like glass. Sometimes it's better to leave them broken than try to hurt yourself putting it back together. Author Unknown

Love is like a puzzle. When you're in love, all the pieces fit but when your heart gets broken, it takes a while to get everything back together. Author Unknown

Sadness flies away on the wings of time. Jean de La Fontaine

Have you ever been hurt and the place tries to heal a bit, and you just pull the scar off of it over and over again. Rosa Parks

We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey. Kenji Miyazawa

If you're going through hell, keep going. Winston Churchill

You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the present. Jan Glidewell

Turn your wounds into wisdom. Oprah Winfrey

Don't cry when the sun is gone, because the tears won't let you see the stars.

Rock bottom is good solid ground, and a dead end street is just a place to turn around. Buddy Buie and J.R. Cobb, "Rock Bottom"

The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears. - John Vance Cheney

Artists are just children who refuse to put down their crayons. Al Hirschfeld

Never invest in any idea you can't illustrate with a crayon. Peter Lynch

I wish I were a white crayon, that way no one could use me. Author Unknown

My childhood smells like a box of Crayola crayons. Jessi Lane Adams

Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment. Claude Monet

Poured a cup of hot sepia coffee in a wisteria flowered mug, dandelion sunshine spilling through the periwinkle sky. Terri Guilllemets

Actually, all education is self-education. A teacher is only a guide, to point out the way, and no school, no matter how excellent, can give you education. What you receive is like the outlines in a child's coloring book. You must fill in the colors yourself. Lois L'Amour

Beauty without colour seems somehow to belong to another world. Murasaki Shikibu

Art is your personal diary where you may color your thoughts and emotions on a page. Sara, Los Cerros Middle School, 1999

Coloring outside the lines is a fine art. Kim Nance

It is lthe eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block. Paul Gaguin

I cannot pretend to feel impartial about colors. I rejoice with the brilliant ones and am genuinely for the poor browns. Winston Churchill

Quotes

Your attitude is like a box of crayons that color your world. Constantly color your pictures grey, and your picture will always be bleak. Try adding some bright colors to the picture by including humor, and your picture begins to lighten up.

Orange

Etymology

The colour is named after the orange fruit, after the appearance of the ripe fruit. Before this word was introduced to the Enlish-speaking world, the colour was referred to as geoluread(yellow-red).

The first recorded use of orange as a colour name in English was in 1512, in the court of King Henry VIII.

Symbolism

Academia

In the United States and Canada, orange regalia is associated with the field of engineering.

Geography and history

Historically and culturally, saffron, red and white have always been the most prominent colours of Hinduism and have been regulary worn, particulary in religious ceremonies, in India for more than 200 years.

Orange is the national colour of the Netherlands. The royal family, the House of Orange-Nassau, dervives its name in part from its former holding, the principality of Orange. (The title Prince of Orange is still used for the Dutch heir apparent.) Despite the fact that the name of the colour and the name of the principality have separate etymologies, the colour has come to be associated with the royal family and the Netherlands. In modern Dutch society the word oranje, 'orange' is ofter associated with the reigning royal house of the Netherlands. Oranjezonnetje('Orange Sun') designates good weather on the Queen's birthday, April 30. Orange is the colour of choice for many of the national sports teams and their supporters. the nickname of the Dutch national football team is Oranje, the Dutch word for orange. Oranjegekte ('Orange Mania') signifies the inclination of many Dutchmen to dress up in orange colours during soccer matches. In the modern flag of the Netherlands, red substitues the original orange, but on birthdays, the flag has an addtional orange banner. Most georgraphical usages of the word orange can be traced back to Dutch maritime power in the 17th century. The flag of New Amsterdam, uses orange as one of its colours and based on the flag of the United Netherlands used in1625.

The Republic of the Orange Free State (Dutch: OranjeVrijstaat) was an indpendent Boer republic in southern Africa during the second half of the 19th century, and later a British colony and a province of the Union of South Africa. It is the historical precursor to the presentday Free State province. Extending between the Orange and Vall rivers, its borders were determined by the United Kingdom in 1848 when the region was proclaimed as the Orange River Sovereignty, with a seat of a British Resident in Bloemfontein.

Oranjemund ( German for:"Mouth of Orange") is a town situated in the extreme southwest of Namibia, on the northern bacnk of the Orange River mouth.

In Ireland the use of orange dates from the reign of William of Orange, the Protestant English king (1689-1702) a Dutch stadholder and the great-grandson of William the Silent. It became associated with Irish Unionist, especially Ulster Presbyterians. For that reason, the colour "orange" is on the Irish Flag.

Orange is also associated with many colleges as well as Professional Sports Teams our for example Orioles

Social

In English heraldry, orange is considered synonymous with the tincture tenne. However, its use as a heraldic tincture is relatively rare, as it is considered a "stain" by some. In continental heraldry, tenne is more often deemed to denote burnt orange colour.

The colours orange and black represent the secular holiday Halloween (31 October) because orange is the colour of pumpkins and black is the colour of night and is associated with doom, despair and darkness.

The colours oraqnge and brown represent the United States holiday Thanksgiving.

Orange is the contrasting colour of blue and is highly visible against a clear sky. Therefore, shades of orange such as safety orange are often used  in high visibility clothing and other safety equipment and objects.

Due to its brightness, orange is used in the construction industry on road signs and safety jackets to warn passers by of the pending dangers ahead.

Orange is used to promote awareness of self-injury.

Buddhist monks in the Theravada tradition typically wear saffron robes, although occasionally maroon, the colour normally worn by Vajrayana Buddhist monks is worn.

Orange

Red



Red

Red is any of a number of similar colors evoked by light consisting predominantly of the longest wavelengths of light discernible by the human eye, in the wavelength range of roughly 630-740nm. Longer wavelengths than this are called infrared(below red) and cannot be seen by the naked eye. Red is used as one of the additive primary colors of light, complementary to cyan, In RYB color space but not CMYK color space.

Etymology and definitions

The word red comes from the Old English Further back, the word can be traced to the Proto-Germanic rauthaz and the Proto-Indo European root reudh-. In Sanskrit, the word rudhira means red or blood. In the English language, the word red is associated with the color of blood, certain flowers(e.g.roses), ripe fruits (e.g.apples cherries). Fire is also strongly connected, as is the sun and the sky at sunset. Healthy light skinned people are sometimes said to have a ruddy complexion (as opposed to appearing pale). After the rise of socialism in the mid-19th century, red was used to describe revolutionary movements.

Symbolism

Sin, guilt, pain, passion, blood, anger

Red is used as a symbol of guilt, sin and anger often as connected with blood or sex. A biblical example is found in Isaiah: "Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be white as snow." Also, The Scarlet Letter, an 1850 American novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne, features a woman in a Puritan New England community who is punished for adultery with ostracism, her sin represented by a red letter 'A' sewn into her clothers. This all comes from a general Hebrew view inherited by Christianity which associates red with the blood of murder, as well as with guilt in general. Often things will be in red to scare. Another popular example of this is the phrase "caught red-handed", meaning either caught in an act of crime or caught wiht the blood of murder still on one's hands. At one point, red was associated with prostitutes, or now, with brothels (red-light districts). In Roman Catholicism, red represents wrath, on of the Seven Deadly Sins. In Christianity, Satan is usually depicted as colored red and / or wearing a red costume in both icnography and popular culture. Statisitics have shown that red cars are more likely to be involved in accidents.

The color red is associated with lust, passion, love, and beauty as well. The association with love and beauty is possibly related to the use of red roses as a love symbol. Both the Greeks and Hebrews considered red a symbol of love, as well as sacrifice. Psychological research has shown that men find women who are wearing red more attractive.

Courage and Sacrifice

Red is used as a symbol of courage and sacrifice, as in blood splilt in sacrifice or courage in the face of lethal danger. Examples of this are found in the flags of many nations including the United States, as well as in the novel The Red Badge of Courage, in which a soldier in the American Civil War discovers the meaning of courage. In Christianity, red is the liturgical color for the feast of martyrs, representing the blood of those who suffered death for their faith. It is sometimes used as the liturgical color for Holy Week including Palm Sunday and Good Friday, although this is a modern (20th century) development. In roman mythology red is associated with the god of war, Mars. A Roman general receiving a triumph had his entire body painted red in honor of his achievement. The pharase "red blooded" describes someone who is audacious, robust, , or virile. In Edward de Bono's book Six Thinking Hats a red hat represents feelings and emotions. Red and gold are also used for the Gryffindor house, which is known for bravery, in Hogwarts.

Warning

Red catches people's attention, and can be used either in a negative way to indicate danger and emergency, or in a positive way in advertising to gain more viewers, or in nature, as a ripe fruit announces its readiness with its red color. Several studies have indicated that red carries the strongest reaction of all the colors, with the level of reatction decreasing gradually with orange, yellow, and white, respectively. Because of this, red is often used to catch people's attention in a variety of situations.

Eastern and African traditions

In China, red is the symbol of fire and the south (both south in general and Southern China specifically). It carries a largelly positive connotation, being associated with courage, loyalty, honor, success, fortune, fertiltiy, happiness, passion, and summer. In Chinese cultural traditons, red is associated with weddings(where brides traditonally wear red dresses) and red paper is also frequently used to wrap gifts of money or other things. Special red packets in Mandarin or lai see in Cantonese are specifically used during the Chinese New Year to give monetary gifts. On the more negative side, obituaries are traditionally written in red inck, and to write someone's name in red signals either cutting them out of your life, or that they have died. Red is also associated with both the feminine and the masculine (yin and yang respectively), depending on the source.

In Japan, red is a tradtional color for a heroic figure. In the Indian Sub-continent, red is the traditonal color of bridal dresses, and is frequently represented in the media as a symbolic color for married women. The color is associated with purity, sexuality in marriage relationships through its connection to heat and fertility. It is also the color of wealth, beauty, and the goddess Lakshmi.

In Central Africa, Ndembu warriors rub themselves with red during celebrations. Since their culture sees the color as a symbol of life and health, sick people are also painted with it. Like most Central African cultures, the Ndembu see red as ambivalent, better than black, but not as good as white. In other parts of Africa, however, red is a color of mourning, representing death. Because of the connection red bears with death in many parts of Africa, the Red Cross has changed its colors to green and white in parts of the continent.