Top 24 Betsy Tacy Quotes
#1. Some characters become your friends for life. That's how it was for me with Betsy-Tacy.
Judy Blume
#2. We're growing up and I don't like it, said Tacy, as they say at Heinz's later, drinking coffee.
Maud Hart Lovelace
#3. A strong relationship is an honest relationship, and no honest relationship is all peaches and cream. Love is the key. Where love abides, anger is but a passing visitor.
Jerry Spinelli
#4. New things are easier to do than old familiar things when there's going to be a change, Betsy decided profoundly.
Maud Hart Lovelace
#5. Betsy dreamed about going away from Deep Valley, but she didn't for a moment suspect that around a bend in her Winding Hall of Fate a journey was actually waiting.
Maud Hart Lovelace
#6. To feel pity, to be carried away by the pleasure of hearing a clever argument, to listen to the claims of decency are three things that are entirely against the interests of an imperial power.
Thucydides
#7. If you have a great purpose and develop good habits of persistence and patience, you will be great success.
Debasish Mridha
#8. Martin was alphabetizing my bookshelves. They used to kill men for sacrilege like that.
Jim Butcher
#10. There is a dew in one flower and not in another, because one opens in cup and takes it in, while the other closes itself, and the drops run off. God rains His goodness and mercy as widespread as the dew, and if we lack them, it is because we will not open our hearts to receive them.
Henry Ward Beecher
#11. I am comfortable with my body and embrace who I am. I love to work it.
Chanel Iman
#12. I caused my husband's heart attack. In the middle of lovemaking I took the paper bag off my head. He dropped the Polaroid and keeled over and so did the hooker. It would have taken me half an hour to untie myself and call the paramedics, but fortunately the Great Dane could dial.
Joan Rivers
#13. Our lives can hold just so much. If they're filled with one thing, they can't be filled with another. We ought to do a lot of thinking about what we want to fill them with.
Maud Hart Lovelace
#14. I would have sold London if I could find a buyer.
Richard I
#15. Before, I'd photograph anything. I didn't think there was anything more or less obscene about any part of the body.
Jock Sturges
#16. I learn from thinking about the future, what hasn't been done yet. That's kind of my constant obsession.
John Cale
#17. You don't grow up, she reasoned now, until you begin to evaluate yourself, to recognize your good traits and acknowledge that you have a few faults.
Maud Hart Lovelace
#18. And yet, even as she spoke, she knew that she did not wish to come back. not to stay, not to live. She loved the little yellow cottage more than she loved any place on earth. but she was through with it except in her memories.
Maud Hart Lovelace
#19. It is not hard to live through a day, if you can live through a moment.
Andre Dubus
#20. When people start serving together, they forgot about all their stress, [ ... ] all their own problems. They start focusing on someone else's.
Blake Mycoskie
#21. I'm desperate to work again. I've often had those periods, but two years was the longest.
Charlotte Gainsbourg
#22. The older I get the more mixed up life seems. When you're little, it's all so plain. It's all laid out like a game ready to play. You think you know exactly how it's going to go. But things happen ...
Maud Hart Lovelace
#23. This was Betsy and Tacy's private corner. Betsy's mother was a great believer in people having private corners, and the piano box was plainly meant to belong to Betsy and Tacy, for it fitted them so snugly.
Maud Hart Lovelace
#24. The city has always been an embodiment of hope and a source of feeling guilt; a dream pursued, and found vain, wanting, and destructive.
Jonathan Raban
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