All God's Creatures Quotes

“The line between stupid teenaged behavior that causes an end to teenaged lives and stupid teenaged behavior that turns into a prank is very thin. Kids”
― Carolyn McSparren, All God's Creatures

“The male students stole my equipment and tried unsuccessfully to sabotage my lab work. They told endless filthy jokes and cussed extensively whenever I was within earshot. I learned not to react. They made passes that stopped just short of actual assault. One charmer pinched my rear end so hard I had a bruise on my rump for a week. After I stomped his instep he never did it again.”
― Carolyn McSparren, All God's Creatures

“Did I want to be a Cotton Carnival princess? Hardly. My parents had struggled to send me to a private school with most of the girls who were princesses of old, established country clubs, that had been sending princesses to Carnival for donkey’s years.”
― Carolyn McSparren, All God's Creatures

“I can still aim and fire a pastry gun of filling into a deviled egg straighter and faster than Wyatt Earp ever shot his .45.”
― Carolyn McSparren, All God's Creatures

“His small features huddled in the center of his round face like the holes in a bowling ball.”
― Carolyn McSparren, All God's Creatures

“Happiness takes an effort of will,”
― Carolyn McSparren, All God's Creatures

“Banks of azaleas ranging from bright orange to palest pink rioted in the spring gardens.”
― Carolyn McSparren, All God's Creatures

“A surprising number of owners never touch the horses they own. Some, like Mrs. Benson, are afraid of them.”
― Carolyn McSparren, All God's Creatures

“you are an eagle among canaries. You were born to soar.”
― Carolyn McSparren, All God's Creatures

“BACK IN THE Pleistocene era when I went to vet school, female students were a rarity and not a blessed one.”
― Carolyn McSparren, All God's Creatures