M.j. Burke > M.j.'s Quotes

“What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.”
― T.S. Eliot

“How I wish, how fervently I ache, to take my mother's hand, kiss her check,tell her I love her, and watch her smile. For me it was not, nor can ever be. But for you, reach out now. Reach out for your mother's hand-the hands of those you love. Say I love you.
Don't wait.”
― M.J. Burke Sr., Funeral in a Feminine Dress: Depravity Reborn as Virtue

“When Bill Burke asked my mother out, she experienced the unluckiest day of her life. Diana (to become my high school sweetheart-and wife) agreeing to go out with me was the luckiest day of my life.”
― M.J. Burke Sr., Funeral in a Feminine Dress: Depravity Reborn as Virtue

“My mother's story continues to haunt me, it will until the day I die. My guilt and personal anguish is a good thing. It propelles me to strive to become the man my mother wanted me to be.”
― M.J. Burke Sr., Funeral in a Feminine Dress: Depravity Reborn as Virtue

“Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.”
― Theodore Roosevelt, Strenuous Life

“You must remember to love people and use things, rather than to love things and use people.”
― Fulton J. Sheen