Top 22 Aunt Helen Quotes
#1. And I made Aunt Helen a promise to only cry about important things because I would hate to think that crying as much as I do would make crying for Aunt Helen less than it is.
Stephen Chbosky
#2. Despite everything my mom and doctor and dad have said to me about blame, I can't stop thinking what I know. And I know that my aunt Helen would still be alive today if she just bought me one present like everybody else. She would be alive if I were born on a day that didn't snow.
Stephen Chbosky
#3. My Aunt Helen was my favorite person in the whole world. She was my mom's sister. She got straight A's when she was a teenager and she used to give me books to read. My father said that the books were a little too old for me, but I liked them so he just shrugged and let me read.
Stephen Chbosky
#4. Aunt Helen Beck had many intentions about her death. She was about being dead the way some people are about being British - she wasn't, and it seemed she would never be, but it was clearly something she aspired to, since all the people she respected were.
Elizabeth McCracken
#5. Honesty is stronger medicine than sympathy, which may console but often conceals.
Gretel Ehrlich
#6. Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began. Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And even his failings lean'd to Virtue's side.
Oliver Goldsmith
#7. The idea of a star being born is bushwa. A star is created, carefully and cold-bloodily, built up from nothing, from nobody. Age, beauty, talent, least of all talent, has nothing to do with it. We could make silk purses out of sows' ears every day of the week.
Louis B. Mayer
#8. In the '70s, the gay movement was really making strides. Huge strides. And then AIDS came along and slapped a judgment on it all and the Right Wing religious movement was like, 'See. This is why, we told you.' And it pushed back the movement 30 years.
Mario Cantone
#9. Whatever the reason for wanting to escape, sane or insane, zoo detractors should realize that animals don't escape to somewhere but from something.
Yann Martel
#10. Hemlock in the cocktails, wasn't it? Something of that kind.
Agatha Christie
#11. If that a pearl may in a toad's head dwell, And may be found too in an oyster shell.
John Bunyan
#12. The international situation is desperate, as usual.
Tom Robbins
#13. And I hope each morning you wake like a bird in a nest and fly without a thought.
Bill Callahan
#15. American journalism's crazy old aunt in the attic.
Helen Thomas
#18. All over. Wish I had never written. Tell no one - , HELEN." But Aunt Juley was gone - gone irrevocably, and no power on earth could stop her.
E. M. Forster
#19. Aunt Agatha says there isn't going to be a war," said Daniel, coming in behind her, laughing. "And so of course there won't be. They would never dream of defying her.
Helen Simonson
#20. Day full-blown and splendid-day of the immense sun, action, ambition, laughter, The Night follows close with millions of suns, and sleep and restoring darkness.
Walt Whitman
#21. Well, Mr. Carpetbagger. We got somethin' in this territory called the Missouri boat ride. -Josey Wales
Forrest Carter
#22. There are wonderful museums with lots of photographs of 1920's musicals.
Julie Harris
