Top 74 Malloy Quotes
#1. The little bit you and me might change the world," Malloy smiled, "it wouldnt show up until a hundred years after we were dead. We'd never see it."
"But it'd be there.
James Jones
#2. What if you're chicken? What if you're more chicken than chicken soup?" Malloy said.
Kit gave him a long, hard look. "Then you pretend you're not. You pretend so hard it comes true.
Tania Unsworth
#3. Alice Malloy had dark, stringy hair, and even her husband, who loved her more than he knew, was sometimes reminded by her lean face of a tenement doorway on a rainy day, for her countenance was long, vacant, and weakly lighted, a passage for the gentle transports and miseries of the poor.
John Cheever
#5. Did you take a vow of poverty or something?"
"This is a housedress, Malloy," she said, indignant again. "I was cleaning when you came. I gave my other clothes away because I got some new ones. From my mother."
"Did your mother take a vow of poverty?
Victoria Thompson
#6. We have to expose Republicans for the frauds that they are when it comes to what they want to do for working men and women.
Dannel Malloy
#7. If a Democrat took Republicans on rudely, they wouldn't be elevated in the Democratic Party. There's a different standard. We're supposed to be polite to people.
Dannel Malloy
#9. What I'm hoping to do is see Democrats get elected. That's what I'm trying to contribute to.
Dannel Malloy
#10. Whatever we say
We're always telling each other exactly what we want them to know ...
We are always telling each other
The truth
Even when
We're lying
Merrit Malloy
#11. He is not a great man. None of us are great men. We are just caught in the wave of history.
Dave Malloy
#12. You can't separate me from my upbringing as a child overcoming learning disabilities and having to make my way through that.
Dannel Malloy
#13. When we protect our children in their schools or on our streets, we are living up to our obligations - obligations which we should take solemnly.
Dannel Malloy
#14. I was diagnosed as mentally retarded as late as the fourth grade.
Dannel Malloy
#15. And I choose to be alone
Rather than wrapped in arms I could never need.
Merrit Malloy
#16. I move impatiently
towards a lover
I haven't met
Merrit Malloy
#17. I don't think that we'll support any state that is prepared to discriminate against the citizens of Connecticut.
Dannel Malloy
#18. I get so used to saying what I think people want to hear, I forget they might just want the truth sometimes.
Matt Malloy
#19. A state that houses the NCAA headquarters. Quite frankly, if Indiana doesn't say that they're going to ban discrimination based on sexual orientation, the NCAA needs to move out of Indiana.
Dannel Malloy
#20. The truth isn't what we say, it's how we feel when we say it.
Merrit Malloy
#21. Codifying discrimination in our laws should be something we read about in American history, not on the front pages of today's American newspapers and magazines.
Dannel Malloy
#22. That One Man (from The People Who Didn't Say Goodbye)
There is always that one man
who you can't avoid
that one face that becomes the only
representative of
Heaven.
Merrit Malloy
#23. You won't further the cause of human rights by walking away with your morals intact. Change is about getting your hand dirty.
Brian Malloy
#24. Simply because you're a Democrat doesn't mean you can't speak to these issues in language that appeals to voters, particularly independent voters.
Dannel Malloy
#25. I can't write things. I'm embarrassed all the time about that, particularly if people don't know that about me.
Dannel Malloy
#26. You know and I know and economists know that trickle-down economics doesn't work.
Dannel Malloy
#27. What we are is our parents' children; what we become is our children's parents.
Merrit Malloy
#28. As for restaurants, one of our favorites is the Silk Road next door to the Tibetan Choijin Lama Museum. It's a very exotic setting. The western food there is pretty good. We also liked the Hazara Restaurant for its Indian food, and the Mongolian Barbecue restaurant. All are downtown.
Ruth Lor Malloy
#29. I am a person of faith who believes deeply in the right to exercise religious beliefs.
Dannel Malloy
#30. Compromise is simply changing the question to fit the answer.
Merrit Malloy
#31. The Thief who Couldn't Get Away
I knew a man who didn't come to see his children for years ...
how inept a thief he was to rob from himself like that
... Ironically, his punishment for this
was that his children loved him anyway ... and
it broke his heart
Merrit Malloy
#32. If you're nice, if you like yourself, if you treat other people well, you're going to be successful. I guarantee it.
Dannel Malloy
#33. Democrats tend to think of elections as cycles. Republicans don't: It's ongoing and constant.
Dannel Malloy
#35. I don't mind the rich getting richer, but the poor shouldn't be getting poorer, and there should be more people moving into the middle class.
Dannel Malloy
#36. What we want to do is guarantee all 4-year-old children in the City of Stamford a prekindergarten experience regardless of their financial circumstances.
Dannel Malloy
#37. The uncle and cousin seem nice, but the aunt is a bit of a shock. Whith her hair dyed bright red, she looks like Ronald McDonald's post-menopausal sister. Who has let herself go.
Brian Malloy
#38. Being bombastic for the sake of being bombastic has just never been my take on the world.
Dannel Malloy
#39. I have to tell you, I'll be right up front about it: I'm the governor of the state of Connecticut, and I can't write anything well.
Dannel Malloy
#40. It's amazing how many people will care about you
if only you would care about them, and
It's even more remarkable
how many people will care about you anyway
Merrit Malloy
#41. I have just been the man in the middle, trying to make sure that we steer the right course.
Dannel Malloy
#42. We found that Central Americans and Hispanics are somewhat reluctant to send their children off to school as early as Anglo-Americans born in this country. There are some cultural differences.
Dannel Malloy
#43. Whenever people say, 'You should be president,' I say, 'I thought you liked me.' Listen, I thought being mayor of Stamford was a wonderful job. Being governor of a state for a period of time is a wonderful job, and I'm not sure I'm at all attracted to Washington.
Dannel Malloy
#44. Letting people be okay without us is how we get to be okay without them.
Merrit Malloy
#45. The Long Way Home
Why is it when people feel they are losing each other they always leave each other?
Why do people walk away from their house when all they have to do to get home is turn around?
Merrit Malloy
#46. Every morning I wake up and thank God that I don't believe in him.
Mike Malloy
#47. Love is proud of itself. It leaks out of us even with the tightest security.
Merrit Malloy
#48. Whatever it means,
it matters,
and most of it is true
I loved every one of them
and all of them ... were you
Merrit Malloy
#50. We grow to deserve what we need to believe ...
Since I've known you
I've been careful not to pray out loud
Wishes have a way of coming true when you least expect ...
Merrit Malloy
#52. A college degree is not a sign that one is a finished product but an indication a person is prepared for life.
Edward Malloy
#53. There are some people
who would rather be right than happy,
as though making a point
was more fun than having a good time
These are the people
who will risk their lives to get the last laugh
even when it isn't funny
Merrit Malloy
#54. Remembering is the opposite of being here now; it's being there now.
Merrit Malloy
#55. We look for God as though he were not already here.
Merrit Malloy
#56. The halls are full of kids, scrawny ones and fat ones, cool ones and uncool ones, freaks and jocks, cheerleaders and dogs, burnouts and nerds. It's like Berlin, divided, except there are more walls in this city, and they're better guarded.
Brian Malloy
#57. The early development of the human brain is extremely important for setting the table, if you will, for potential future accomplishment.
Dannel Malloy
#58. There's a difference between expanding someone's potential and expanding their actual performance. Performance may measure other things, whether one's culture supports education, other socio-economic factors.
Dannel Malloy
#59. Why is it that we always remember that people forget; but we always forget that they remember?I used to remember ... but I forgot!
Merrit Malloy
#60. What we might consider is how we are good rather than how good we are.
Merrit Malloy
#61. I'm not sure that some governors just don't want to lay off people for the sake of laying off people and being able to say they did.
Dan Malloy
#62. Relationships that do not end peacefully, do not end at all.
Merrit Malloy
#63. Don't ever tell a story like it wasn't about you.
Merrit Malloy
#64. No state, as a matter of public policy, should turn back the clock on progress by, in effect, legalizing and relitigating the same types of discriminatory laws and debates that took America centuries to overcome.
Dannel Malloy
#65. I was not going to balance the budgets on the backs of communities.
Dannel Malloy
#66. Indiana houses the home offices of most fraternities and sororities in the country. If Indiana doesn't pass a law that guarantees people that they'll be free of discrimination, those fraternities and sororities need to move out of Indiana.
Dannel Malloy
#67. One of the first things we have to let go of is not being able to let go of anybody.
Merrit Malloy
#68. Everything we say about other people is really about ourselves.
Merrit Malloy
#69. There is a great fear that plagues only romantics and children ... it is that they might be alright alone.
Merrit Malloy
#70. If you look at suburban education in New Jersey and New York, it's pretty strong, intact, doing a pretty good job. You cap taxes for those communities, can we reasonably predict it's going to be as strong 20 years from now?
Dan Malloy
#71. No one is confused about what a Democrat is in a presidential election. In every election other than a presidential election, our voters are confused. We've given out too many different messages.
Dannel Malloy
#72. Religious freedom is already protected in the United States. It's in our Constitution. It's in most state constitutions.
Dannel Malloy
#73. Connecticut would not be Connecticut if we cut $3.5 billion out of the budget. We are a strong, generous, hopeful people. We'd be taking $800 million out of education. You can't do that in this state.
Dannel Malloy
#74. If we stand idly by while states legalize bigotry, we are responsible for allowing it to happen.
Dannel Malloy
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