Top 100 Lowry Quotes
#1. I wanted to be a pariah, because all my heroes were cult artists, people who devoted their lives to poking into very narrow, very deep corners - Erik Satie, Alfred Jarry, Malcolm Lowry - people who suffered in order to express their vision of life.
Jim Woodring
#2. How can I possibly stop loving you when it's sort of predestined? - Malcom Lowry to Carol Brown, 1926 (age 16)
David Eso
#3. No, the key to wealth was opportunity. And if opportunity didn't come knocking than Mrs. Lowry says you must build your own door.
Stacey Lee
#4. It's a lovely adaptation that honors Lois Lowry's vision and authority ... the film ... illuminates and explores the beauty, danger and pain of our free, creative lives. Plenty to talk about in families and other communities. Go see it.
Mitali Perkins
#5. I love Chris Crutcher, Sara Zarr, Lois Lowry, Elizabeth Scott, Madeleine L'Engle, Gordon Korman, Michelle Magorian, Heather Bouwman.
Lisa McMann
#6. by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor and The Giver by Lois Lowry. And
Sharon M. Draper
#7. I was brought up in industrial south Lancashire, down the cobbled road from where LS Lowry (1887-1976) lived and painted.
Ian McKellen
#8. His mind reeled. Now, empowered to ask questions of utmost rudeness-and promised answers-he could, conceivably (though it was almost unimaginable), ask someone, some adult, his father perhaps: "Do you lie?"
But he would have no way of knowing if the answer he received was true.
Lois Lowry
#9. Its a little like looking at yourself looking in a mirror looking at yourself looking in a mirror.
Lois Lowry
#10. Maybe someday, if I succeed at something, I'll stop saying, "It isn't fair" about everything else.
Lois Lowry
#12. But the aircraft a year ago had been different. It was not a squat, fat-bellied cargo plane but a needle-nosed single-pilot jet.
Lois Lowry
#13. Evil can do anything, for a price.
Lois Lowry
#14. Follow the dreams of others and you will receive a paycheck. Follow your own dreams and you will never check your pay.
Vincent Lowry
#15. Shall we gather at the river,
Where bright angel feet have trod;
With its crystal tide for ever,
Flowing by the throne of God?
Robert Lowry
#16. The next morning, for the first time, Jonas did not take his pill. Something within him, something that had grown there through the memories, told him to throw the pill away.
Lois Lowry
#17. To sadden. To bloom. To bleed. What a strange set of words.
Lois Lowry
#18. What I have absolutely no sympathy with is the legislator, the man who seeks, for his own profit, to exploit the weaknesses of those who are unable to help themselves and then to fasten some moral superscription upon it. This I loathe so much that I cannot conceivably explain how much it is.
Malcolm Lowry
#19. You installed a GPS tracker on my phone? Seriously?" I was equal parts impressed and horrified. Apparently Seth's obsession with my whereabouts knew no bounds.
Lisa Roecker
#21. The debate over troop levels will rage for years; it is ... beside the point.
Rich Lowry
#22. John Kerry couldn't even order a Philly cheesesteak properly.
Rich Lowry
#23. Sometimes we have to hurt people, in order to keep ourselves whole. We must just do it with love, that's all.
Lois Lowry
#24. Nothing is altered and in spite of God's mercy I am still alone. Though my suffering seems senseless I am still in agony. There is no explanation of my life. Indeed there was not, nor was this what he'd meant to convey.
Malcolm Lowry
#25. I'm grateful to you, Jonas, because without you I would never have figured out a way to bring about the change. But your role now is to escape. And my role is to stay.
Lois Lowry
#26. Dying is a very solitary thing. The only thing we can do it be there when she wants us there.
Lois Lowry
#27. So many of my books, I don't want to say they have messages, but they have important things to say.
Lois Lowry
#28. I don't want to feel like people are imposing limits upon you.
Mike Lowry
#29. Memory is the happiness of being alone.
Lois Lowry
#30. All of it was new to him. After a life of Sameness and predictability, he was awed by the surprises that lay beyond each curve of the road.
Lois Lowry
#31. SCARED TO DEATH In Arizona, a 1000-acre forest of junipers suddenly withered and died. Foresters are unable to explain it, but the Indians say the trees died of fear but they are not in agreement as to what caused the fright.
Malcolm Lowry
#32. How, unless you drink as I do, could you hope to understand the beauty of an old Indian woman playing dominoes with a chicken?
Malcolm Lowry
#33. He was free to enjoy the breathless glee that overwhelmed him: the speed, the clear cold air, the total silence, the feeling of balance and excitement and peace.
Lois Lowry
#34. I already know you, she told him, and I love what you are. Come!
A bridge opened between them. He crossed over.
B.T. Lowry
#35. No one else seemed to feel this kind of passionate attachment to other humans. Not to a newchild, not to a spouse, or a coworker, or friend. She had not felt it toward her own parents or brother. But now, toward this wobbly, drooling toddler -
Lois Lowry
#37. You have the colors," The Giver told him. "And you have the courage. I will help you to have the strength.
Lois Lowry
#39. The writer after all is only half the book, the other half is the reader.
Lois Lowry
#40. Frightened meant that deep, sickening feeling of something terrible about to happen.
Lois Lowry
#41. Al Gore's performances could be a case study in abnormal-psychology classes.
Rich Lowry
#42. Well, things change. I just have to learn to adjust to what they change to. One
Lois Lowry
#43. Far above him a few white clouds were racing windily after a pale gibbous moon. Drink all morning, they said to him, drink all day. This is life!
Malcolm Lowry
#44. If you think the country is a bastion only of nasty tendencies and racism and oppression, that is anti-American.
Rich Lowry
#45. When my dad was badly weakened by the flu and my mom wanted to call an ambulance to take him to the emergency room, he wouldn't go unless he could shave first and change into a nice shirt and a pair of slacks.
Rich Lowry
#46. Can't you see there's a determinism about the fate of nations? They all seem to get what they deserve in the long run.
Malcolm Lowry
#47. I like prefaces. I read them. Sometimes I do not read any further.
Malcolm Lowry
#48. Later that night I wake up screaming. A rat is at me, biting and biting me, and I cannot move.
Beverly Lowry
#49. Ultimately, the wolves themselves made the reintroduction work.
William R. Lowry
#50. If you put pussy willows in water, they'll blossom and then die. Just put them in the vase alone, and they'll stay beautiful forever.
Lois Lowry
#51. Indeed, on the face of it, this man of abnormal strength and constitution and obscure ambition, whom Hugh would never know, could never deliver nor make agreement to God for, but in his way loved and desired to help, had triumphantly succeeded in pulling himself together.
Malcolm Lowry
#52. There will always be a place for bunnies to talk in rhyme, but that's not what I do.
Lois Lowry
#53. We need to have the social investments by which to quote unquote distribute some of that wealth.
Mike Lowry
#54. They can't help it. They know nothing
Lois Lowry
#55. And apples were always, always red.
Lois Lowry
#56. I like being right smack in the middle.
Lois Lowry
#57. Our preachers weren't always right, but they were never in doubt.
Mark Lowry
#58. It wasn't the same. I'm pretty good at making the best of things, but it wasn't the same.
Lois Lowry
#59. Making lists of reasons was sometimes a good way to figure things out.
Lois Lowry
#60. When would he ever learn to stop saying "Look" to a man who had no eyes?
Lois Lowry
#61. How about you hate your sin, and I'll hate my sin and we'll just love each other!
Mark Lowry
#62. The senior officer who met with reporters in Baghdad said there had been 21 car bombings in the capital in May, and 126 in the past 80 days. All last year, he said, there were only about 25 car bombings in Baghdad.
Rich Lowry
#63. I feel sorry for anyone who is in a place where he feels strange and stupid.
Lois Lowry
#64. I have learned over the course of my many years that it is a bad idea, usually, to investigate piteous weeping but always a fine thing to look into a giggle.
Lois Lowry
#65. Never think that by releasing me you will be free. You would only condemn us to an ultimate hell on earth. You would only free something else to destroy us both.
Malcolm Lowry
#66. ... and she was awed to see that vibrant life still struggled to thrive despite such destruction.
Lois Lowry
#67. As female hormones decrease, they're replaced with an overwhelming urge to grow delphinium.
Lois Lowry
#68. It was an illusion. It was a tangled knot of fears and deceits and dark struggles for power that had disguised itself and almost destroyed everything. Now it was unfolding, like a flower coming into bloom, radiant with possibility.
Lois Lowry
#69. Some books had shiny pages that showed paintings of landscapes unlike anything Matty had ever seen, or of people costumed in odd ways, or of battles, and there were many quiet painted scenes of a woman holding a newborn child.
Lois Lowry
#70. It's not a great song unless it makes your DNA remember Eden and your spirit long for Home.
Mark Lowry
#71. My job is to transmit to you all the memories I have within me. Memories of the past.
Lois Lowry
#72. It's hard to leave the only place you've known.
Lois Lowry
#73. Dangers were no more than odd imaginings, like ghost stories that children made up to frighten one another: things that couldn't possibly happen.
Lois Lowry
#74. But there was nothing left to do but continue
Lois Lowry
#75. An urge, a need, a passionate yearning to share the warmth with the one person left for him to love.
Lois Lowry
#76. She reached for Matty and embraced him. Ordinarily uncomfortable with hugs, he would have stiffened his shoulders and drawn back; but now, from exhaustion and affection, he held Kira and to his own amazement felt his eyes fill with tears.
Lois Lowry
#77. If everything's the same, then there aren't any choices! I want to wake up in the morning and decide things!
Lois Lowry
#78. I knew that there had been times in the past-terrible times-when people had destroyed others in haste,in fear, and had brought about their own destruction
Lois Lowry
#79. Nowadays it seems as though people sit down to write what they know is going to be a trilogy.
Lois Lowry
#80. Oh the weather outside is frightful...
Lois Lowry
#81. I have been fortunate. I have done so many things and enjoyed so many things and had such a great life, not to imply that it is ending, but that there aren't many things that I feel I have left undone.
Lois Lowry
#83. She needs us, for our love, but she doesn't need us for anything else now." He swallowed hard and said, "Dying is a very solitary thing.
Lois Lowry
#84. I think the market driven economic system is the most productive system, but to have that work in the world, you've got to also have social investments to go along with that.
Mike Lowry
#85. Of course they needed to care. It was the meaning of everything.
Lois Lowry
#87. she said, "thank you for your childhood.
Lois Lowry
#88. Almost all political campaigns involve falsity and playacting.
Rich Lowry
#89. With her toddler playing on the floor by her feet, his widow now nursed her new baby on the porch of her homeplace, attended by comforting women who sat with their knitting and embroidery and spoke only of happy things.
Lois Lowry
#90. Teasing's part of the fun that comes before kissing
Lois Lowry
#91. He hunched his shoulders and tried to make himself smaller in the seat. He wanted to disappear, to fade away, not to exist.
Lois Lowry
#92. It was the only thing I had to do. I worked to get rid of the time, even now I work for something to do. Painting is a wonderful way of getting rid of the days.
L. S. Lowry
#93. I laugh, because he knew what I was thinking, and very few people ever know what I'm thinking.
Lois Lowry
#94. The Willoughby parents frequently forgot that they had children and became quite irritable when they were reminded of it.
Lois Lowry
#95. On Dreams
Only one thing supersedes the importance of thinking about a better tomorrow. It's taking action today.
Vincent Lowry
#96. Do you know that I no longer see colors?
Jonas's heart broke.
Lois Lowry
#97. Hurry through the evening's last light to the homeplace, where the blind
Lois Lowry
#98. - My instructors in science and technology have taught us about how the brain works. It's full of electrical impulses. It's like a computer. If you stimulate one part of the brain with an electrode, it ...
- They know nothing.
Lois Lowry
#99. Time goes on, and your life is still there, and you have to live it. After a while you remember the good things more often than the bad. Then, gradually, the empty silent parts of you fill up with sounds of talking and laughter again, and the jagged edges of sadness are softened by memories.
Lois Lowry
#100. My best friend - her name was Helena - lived in that house. Sometimes I used to spend the night with her. But more often she came to my house, on weekends. It was more fun to be in the country.
Lois Lowry
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