Top 52 Gladys Taber Quotes
#1. Most cats feel that bird-catching is their duty; the instinct goes back to prehistoric times. Amber keeps in practice by chasing moths.
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#2. The tentacles of today reach out like an octopus to swallow yesterday.
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#3. Well, any love makes us vulnerable. Whatever we love will give the gift of pain somewhere along the road. But who would live sealed in spiritual cellophane just to keep from ever being hurt? There are a few people like that. I'm sorry for them. I think they are as good as dead.
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#4. The begonia is an amazing plant ... it just keeps going along and blooming, and when cut back, it starts up again.
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#5. The curious thing about fishing is you never want to go home. If you catch something, you can't stop. If you don't catch anything, you hate to leave in case something might bite.
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#6. Long cold nights mark November's return, grey rains fall, wind walks in the bronze oak leaves.
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#7. The creative instincts, the love force must be nourished with every beat of our hearts until they overbalance the destructive instincts.
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#8. Americans tend to believe they can do anything with or without any training or experience.
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#9. History records the large events or the general condition of society, but only an individual can put down the way of life in a small town ...
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#10. I know of nothing to compare with the welcome a dog gives you when you come home.
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#11. A cat is, by and large, sophisticated and complex, and capable of creating three-act plays around any single piece of action.
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#12. Some of the days in November carry the whole memory of summer as a fire opal carries the color of moonrise.
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#13. Christmas is a bridge. We need bridges as the river of time flows past. Today's Christmas should mean creating happy hours for tomorrow and reliving those of yesterday.
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#14. Catching something is merely a byproduct of our fishing. It is the act of fishing that wipes away all grief, lightens all worry, dissolves all fear and anxiety.
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#15. Business was bound to come; light industries were already shopping for land. The quiet country farms were already going, and developments would take over ... Eventually, of course, we will have to have some sort of plan to guide future development.
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#16. There must be hundreds of unsung heroes and heroines who first tasted strange things growing - and think of the man who first ate a lobster. This staggers the imagination. I salute him every time I take my nutcracker in hand and move the melted-butter pipkin closer.
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#17. I love both the way a dog looks up to me and a cat condescends to me.
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#18. If I had Aladdin's lamp and the usual three wishes, the first would always be, 'Give me the first day of June.
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#19. Whoever decided that comic valentines were a good idea should have been sent away to think it over.
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#20. Being a good neighbor is an art which makes life richer.
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#21. A good recipe for a human reducing breakfast is a lot of good things to eat, and three spaniels and two cats to eat with.
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#22. Best of all are the decorations the grandchildren have made ~ fat little stars and rather crooked Santas, shaped out of dough and baked in the oven.
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#23. I cannot imagine a cat in an Obedience ring, running around in the hot sun and doing things on command. For it would not make sense. Whereas a dog is tolerant of your not making sense and only wants to fix things so you are happy.
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#25. Pride may go before a fall, but jealousy goes before destruction.
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#26. June in New England is like a lover's dream made tangible.
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#27. Almost all words do have color, and nothing is more pleasant than to utter a pink word and see someone's eyes light up and know it is a pink word for him or her, too.
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#28. Life is a process of discovery, of new perceptions.
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#29. My own recipe for world peace is a bit of land for everyone.
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#31. What would happen if all the populations on the planet simply refused to fight human beings they did not even know?
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#32. The real evidence of growing older is that things level off in importance ... Days are no longer jagged peaks to climb; time is a meadow, and we move over it with level steps.
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#33. It is Jill's theory that in every life there is one dog.Other dogs may come and go, but there is one grande affaire. I feel that is probably right and yet it worries me, for it might mean that I am a fickle person. For I seem able to love deeply just the dog I am looking at.
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#34. My general attitude toward life when I first get up is of deep suspicion, verging on hatred ... I am simply basted together until after breakfast.
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#35. Perhaps what makes friendship and love exciting is the continuing discovery of another personality.
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#36. I suppose I am a sparrow, a stay-at-home bird.
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#37. There is a kind of immortality in every garden.
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#38. A house with no fireplace is a house without a heart.
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#39. As long as you have a window, life is exciting.
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#42. Nothing decorates a home like books. There they are, waiting to decorate the mind, too!
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#43. When Father smiled, it was like the sun coming out, and spring and summer in your heart.
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#44. Traveling is all very well if you can get home at night. I would be willing to go around the world if I came back in time to light the candles and set the table for supper.
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#45. Cat lovers know that every cat is remarkable.
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#46. Faith is a curious thing. It must be renewed; it has its own spring.
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#48. Old houses, I thought, do not belong to people ever, not really, people belong to them.
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#49. And whether rich or poor, well or ill, happy or sad, books can be a refuge, they do not change with changing circumstance, they are the open highway to yesterday, today and tomorrow wherever you will to travel.
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#50. We need time to dream, time to remember, and time to reach the infinite. Time to be.
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#51. November wind has a sound different from any other. It is easy to imagine the cave of the winds in some mythical Northland where the winds are born and the gods send them out to conquer the quiet air.
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#52. Father was the most unreconciled taxpayer I ever knew.
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