Mary > Mary's Quotes

“For whatever we lose (like a you or a me),
It's always our self we find in the sea.”
― e.e. cummings, 100 Selected Poems

“I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.”
― Michael Jordan

“The bridge will only take you halfway there, to those mysterious lands you long to see. Through gypsy camps and swirling Arab fair, and moonlit woods where unicorns run free. So come and walk awhile with me and share the twisting trails and wondrous worlds I've known. But this bridge will only take you halfway there. The last few steps you have to take alone.”
― Shel Silverstein

“To be Irish is to know that in the end the world will break your heart.”
― Daniel Patrick Moynihan

“Oh, if a man tried To take his time on earth And prove before he died What one man's life could be worth, I wonder what would happen to this world”
― Harry Chapin

“Clocks are everywhere if you know how to recognize them. A dandelion is a clock, obviously. Rice pouring into a bowl is a clock, each grain marking the passage of time. A school assignment, an apple as it withers, a tree waiting for spring. Each of these things measures living moments, what remains before death. Tick, tock.”
― Catriona Ward, Sundial

“Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light.”
― Beth Morrey, Saving Missy

“Children are so beautiful, flawless and shiny, like a chestnut newly out of its shell. Such a shame they all grow up to be abominable adults.”
― Beth Morrey, The Love Story of Missy Carmichael

“CALVIN:
Look, Hobbes, I got a magic carpet.

HOBBES:
What's so magic about it?

CALVIN:
Magic carpets FLY! You can ride them.

HOBBES:
Isn't this the rug from the hallway?

CALVIN:
Up, Rug!
Up! Up!

CALVIN:
Hey, Look!
It works!
Ok, rug, warp factor five.

HOBBES:
Is this legal?
Do you have your registration and proof of insurance?”
― Bill Watterson, Yukon Ho!

“Dear ignorance, I’m disowning you.
Dear knowledge, I’m wooing you.
Dear understanding, I’m seeking you.
Dear wisdom, I’m wedding you.

Dear fear, I’m divorcing you.
Dear courage, I’m courting you.
Dear hope, I’m pursuing you.
Dear love, I’m marrying you.

Dear past, I survived you.
Dear present, I’m ready for you.
Dear future, I’m longing for you.
Dear destiny, I’m coming for you.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“If we could just be on earth at the same place and same time as everyone we loved, if we could be born together and die together, it would be so simple.”
― Rebecca Makkai, The Great Believers

“I better stop thinking in this manner, or before I know where I am I'll be bursting into tears, and it's a nice thing getting homesick before you even leave a place at all, so it is.”
― Walter Macken

“But the past isn’t the future. It has to pass through the present first, and this present… it’s a magical thing.”
― Noret Flood, The Legend of Randidly Ghosthound 10

“Spiritual people use religion to become better people. Fundamentalists use religion to pretend they’re better than other people.”
― John Fugelsang, Separation of Church and Hate: A Sane Person's Guide to Taking Back the Bible from Fundamentalists, Fascists, and Flock-Fleecing Frauds

“Only in America can you be pro-death penalty, pro-war, pro-unmanned drone bombs, pro-nuclear weapons, pro-guns, pro-torture, pro-land mines, and still call yourself 'pro-life.”
― John Fugelsang