Fennelly Quotes

#1. It was the momentary yielding of a nature that had been disappointed from the dawn of its perceptions, but had not quite given up all its hopeful yearnings yet.

Charles Dickens

#2. Nobody touches my ding dongs!

Ray S. Jones

#3. Whether you're explaining where pets go when they die or teaching your child to recycle, your philosophies have ramifications. For the rest of history, echos of your voice will be heard.

Beth Ann Fennelly

#4. But remember that reading provides nourishment for hungers we might not even be aware of. How often have I chosen a book at random and found in it an answer I didn't realize I was seeking.

Beth Ann Fennelly

#5. John Brown, raised by disciplinarians, became one himself.

Tony Horwitz

#6. I stopped trying to rank sorrow, realized that the world has sorrow enough for all of us, and when some of it falls to you the best hope you have is letting yourself suffer through it.

Beth Ann Fennelly

#7. The physical bodies of young people, the only desirable possession the world has ever produced, were reserved for the exclusive use of the young, and the fate of the old was to work and to suffer.

Michel Houellebecq

#8. Are you crying? There's no crying. There's no crying in baseball.

Tom Hanks

#9. With toddlers around, times are always interesting.

Beth Ann Fennelly

#10. When you push your stroller past a group of elderly women, you'll see in the turning gladness of their bodies a glimpse of the children they had been, turning toward the tin music of the ice cream van.

Beth Ann Fennelly

#11. And Lord did I push, for thee more hours
I pushed, I pushed so hard I shat,
Pushed so hard blood vessels burst
in my neck and in my chest, pushed so hard my asshole turned inside-out like a rosebud.

Beth Ann Fennelly

#12. Breathing becomes really easy when you're laughing. It kick starts that feeling of joy.

Erykah Badu

#13. One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love

Elizabeth Aston

#14. The Universe is populated by innumerable suns, innumerable earths, and perhaps, innumerable forms of life. That thought expresses the essence of the Copernican revolution. No revelation more striking has ever come from the scientific mind.

Robert Jastrow

#15. When sharing your news, you might come across some disgruntled parent-folk. You know, the kind who snort and say ruefully, "If there's anyplace you want to travel to, go now." Don't let them squelch your joy, dear K: these are the kind of people who never went anywhere before they had babies either.

Beth Ann Fennelly

#16. I don't want to write without a sense of drama, without passion, or without both eyes open to the world around me.

Gloria Naylor

#17. Every good picture leaves the painter eager to start again, unsatisfied, inspired by the rich mine in which he is working, hoping for more energy, more vitality, more time - condemned to painting for life.

John French Sloan

#18. And when Venutius was not busy fighting, he was content to spend his days hammering things near a forge and his evenings hammering, well ... as I said, we got on well.

Stephanie Dray

#19. Gestures are all that I have.

Garth Stein