Maureen Daly Quotes

#1. It is odd how one can feel like someone else early in the morning - bigger, cleaner, so much more alive.

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#2. Growing up crowds your mind with new thoughts and new feelings so that you forget how you used to think and feel.

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#3. I wonder, I thought, what I am really thinking. Last week I would have known definitely but now everything seemed vague and evasive.

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#4. Talking about your home town is like talking about your own mother.

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#5. It's funny how, having nice thoughts in your head, it is so pleasant to pull them all out and think them all over again.

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#6. Some mules just seem to be born with the hee-haw habit. Back home we call those fellows 'Missouri Nightingales'.

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#7. Growing up is like taking down the walls of your house and letting strangers in.

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#8. Looking up, Missouri saw a formation of low-flying P-47's on the horizon, heading up the coast from Naples...Sergeant Missouri laughed aloud. "They're sending us the Air Force, Chico, and we made it with a donkey," he said.

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#9. Growing up is like taking down the sides of your house and letting strangers walk in.

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#10. Sergeant Missouri crouched close to the ground, pulling up his collar against the bitter, gusting winds. Show me, he thought tiredly, I'm from Missouri.

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#11. A girl can't feel like a lady with a bottle of beer before her.

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#12. A sudden thought struck me. Wouldn't it be odd if my mother got old! ... It is only natural that when your children are big you must be older but somehow I had never thought of its happening to my mother... What a peculiar thing to think of in the bright sunshine of the afternoon!

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#13. Somehow, by holding hands you can carry on a conversation without talking.

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