Top 100 Marlo Quotes
#2. Before I came to New York, I only had a few pictures of the city in my mind. And you know 'That Girl?' Marlo Thomas jumping with her hat? I always loved that, and I wondered what that double street she crosses is. And it's Park Avenue! And that's what I can see out my window.
Kate Spade
#3. Marriage is like a vacuum cleaner. You stick it to your ear and it sucks out all your energy and ambition.
Marlo Thomas
#4. I have this theory that there are two kinds of people in the world, people who stop at a traffic accident and those that just drive by. If I see a traffic accident, I am going to stop. I do notice. I don't think that makes me a good or bad person, or anybody else better or worse.
Marlo Thomas
#5. So I still seized the power, but I felt that if I officially made myself the boss, in black and white, it would be too intimidating for the other producers and the other men who worked on the show. In other words, I had the power, but I gave them the title.
Marlo Thomas
#6. You know, there's endorphins in laughter, as there are endorphins in running in the park.
Marlo Thomas
#7. I had not found a new religion but I had found a new faith.
Marlo Morgan
#8. I have learned that everything is an opportunity for spiritual enrichment.
Marlo Morgan
#9. In my work, there's a tremendous amount of rejection and waves of fertile and fallow times.
Marlo Thomas
#10. You either have faith or fear, not both. Things, they think, generate fear. The more things you have, the more you have to fear. Eventually you are living your life for things.
Marlo Morgan
#11. In the 1960s we were fighting to be recognized as equals in the marketplace, in marriage, in education and on the playing field. It was a very exciting, rebellious time.
Marlo Thomas
#12. I realize now that I was a feminist and the minute I heard the word I certainly knew it meant me, but at that time I don't think we had the label yet. But there's no doubt about it that I was born a feminist.
Marlo Thomas
#13. The Golden Girls certainly proved that there was a large audience for a show about older women.
Marlo Thomas
#14. Palming separates the men from the boys!
Ed Marlo
#15. There are those who think that the private lives of candidates are none of our business. But when those candidates ask us for our attention as they explain their plans for how they will represent us, no one should be surprised at our interest in how they represent themselves.
Marlo Thomas
#16. When I look back at those pictures of my mother performing - and listen to her recordings - it makes me sad to think that all of that joy she found in her work came to an end. I wish she hadn't had to make that sacrifice, even if it was for the benefit of my father and siblings and me.
Marlo Thomas
#17. Fame lost its appeal for me when I went into a public restroom and an autograph seeker handed me a pen and paper under the stall door.
Marlo Thomas
#18. One of the many reasons I love living in New York is that we get a front row seat to the innumerable thrills that take place here - from conventions and awards shows, to parades and U.N. assemblies. But my favorite New York tradition is the annual New Year's Eve ball-drop on Times Square.
Marlo Thomas
#19. One of the things women are very good at, that's networking. Women are not afraid to say, "I need." They're not afraid. Men won't even ask for directions. Women will tell each other when they need something. Women will tell each other when their husband is having an affair. Men don't do that.
Marlo Thomas
#20. Losing my parents was probably the hardest and deepest blow from which I've had to recover.
Marlo Thomas
#21. My father (Danny Thomas) used to tell me there are two kinds of people, the takers and the givers. 'The takers sometimes eat better,' he would say, 'but the givers always sleep better.'
Marlo Thomas
#22. The real people nation have for centuries had the practice at birth of speaking the same first phrase to all newborns. Each person hears the same exact first human words: "We love you and support you on the journey." At their final celebration, everyone hugs them and repeats the phrase again.
Marlo Morgan
#23. Perhaps the future of the world would be in better hands if we forgot about discovering something new and concentrated on recovering our past.
Marlo Morgan
#24. The only way to pass a test is to take the test
Marlo Morgan
#25. The less you take from the land, the less you owe in return.
Marlo Morgan
#26. People don't want to be bothered, if they're not being pressured to change. You have to push people. You have to be the agitator that makes the pearl.
Marlo Thomas
#27. The rejection that we all take and the sadness and the aggravation and the loss of jobs and all of the things that we live through in our lives, without a sense of humor, I don't know how people make it.
Marlo Thomas
#28. It's because it was at a time when women didn't have any power. It was so unusual for a young woman in her 20s to have power that I seized the power but tried not to flaunt it.
Marlo Thomas
#29. The spider's lesson is never to be greedy. It shows that objects of necessity can be objects of beauty and art as well. The spider teaches us that we can be too easily enraptured with ourselves.
Marlo Morgan
#30. We've been taught to believe that actions speak louder than words. But I think words speak pretty loud all of our lives; we carry these words in our head.
Marlo Thomas
#31. We are all one, learning strength from weakness.
Marlo Morgan
#32. It is time. You must lead. Ultimately everyone must at some time lead.
Marlo Morgan
#33. Truth is truth. If you hurt someone, you hurt self. If you help someone, you help self.
Marlo Morgan
#34. What I love about the theater is the work ethic. I grew up with it.
Marlo Thomas
#35. I learned that as long as I had anything in my heart or head I still felt necessary to hide, it would not work. I had to come to peace with everything.
Marlo Morgan
#36. Despite our ever-connective technology, neither Skype nor Facebook - not even a telephone call - can come close to the joy of being with loved ones in person.
Marlo Thomas
#37. More than blood passes through the human heart.
Marlo Morgan
#38. Our words, our actions must constantly set the stage for the life we wish to lead.
Marlo Morgan
#39. If I simply live the principles that appear to be truth for me, I will touch the lives of those I am destined to touch.
Marlo Morgan
#40. All diseases and disorders have some spiritual connection and serve as stepping stones for us to listen to and learn from.
Marlo Morgan
#41. I also did something that seems to come naturally to females, although I am sure we are not taught to do it; I placed my underwear in the middle of the stack of clothing.
Marlo Morgan
#42. If it's one thing we learned from the first book, it's that you don't have to be a prizefighter, or a world-renowned architect, or a concert violinist to have been affected by the power of words.
Marlo Thomas
#43. A man has to be Joe McCarthy to be called ruthless. All a woman has to do is put you on hold.
Marlo Thomas
#44. Women should know that they don't have to hang on to an old dream that has stopped nurturing them - that there is always time to start a new dream.
Marlo Thomas
#45. That is the difference between St. Jude's and all other children's hospitals. The other hospitals are not bad at all; they're good hospitals, but they're just working with what they know, and St. Jude's is working with what nobody else knows, because they're doing research.
Marlo Thomas
#46. A musician carries the music within him. He needs no specific instrument. he is the music.
Marlo Morgan
#47. I wish someone would have told me that, just because I'm a girl, I don't have to get married.
Marlo Thomas
#48. Born empty handed,
Die empty handed.
I witnessed life at its fullest,
Empty handed.
Marlo Morgan
#49. If you go to bed at night and think about your day and you haven't laughed very much, then you must jump out of bed and go do something fun.
Marlo Morgan
#50. I learned I could live more than one life in a lifetime.
Marlo Morgan
#51. The releasing of attachment to object and certain beliefs was already indelibly written as a very necessary step in my human progress toward being.
Marlo Morgan
#52. My mother was a strong-willed and opinionated woman - a Sicilian! - and if she didn't like something, she'd let you know about it. So her undying support of her kids went a long way in proving to us that we were on the right path.
Marlo Thomas
#53. My father said there were two kinds of people in the world: givers and takers. The takers may eat better, but the givers sleep better.
Marlo Thomas
#54. It's fascinating for us women to begin looking at our lives in five-year plans. It really does help you keep on track. If that's too hard, start with a two-year plan.
Marlo Thomas
#55. So do you want your life to "take off"? Begin at once to imagine it the way you want it to be-and move into that. Check every thought, word and action that does not fall into harmony with that. Move away from those.
Marlo Morgan
#56. I think loss of loved ones is the hardest blow in life.
Marlo Thomas
#57. We are a research center and treatment facility all under one roof.
Marlo Thomas
#58. I had to learn to forgive myself, not to judge, but to learn from the past. They showed me how vital it is to accept, be truthful, and love myself. So I could do the same with others.
Marlo Morgan
#59. Never face facts; if you do you'll never get up in the morning.
Marlo Thomas
#60. [On husband Phil Donahue:] The man does not know the meaning of the word tidy. He asked me one day, 'Where are my shoes?' So I asked him, 'Where are my shoes?' I don't know what it is about men. They think that women have radar attached to our uteruses.
Marlo Thomas
#61. It's so important to raise people to grow up to be who they are and not be forced to be who they're not. What an awful thing to do to people - it's like being in prison.
Marlo Thomas
#62. The limitations of my endurance were expanded over and over. At times I felt that if I did not sit down I would collapse. Then something would happen to attract my attention ... miraculously, the distraction always provided wings, carrying new strength, a second wind.
Marlo Morgan
#63. Forget the pain. Learn to endure. Focus your attention elsewhere.
Marlo Morgan
#64. Where will I be five years from now? I delight in not knowing. That's one of the greatest things about life its wonderful surprises.
Marlo Thomas
#65. In that I found being able to talk to my family about my feelings, praying for strength and realizing that our lives have a deep purpose and the journey of our lives is to find out what that is and express it, was the only way I could have gotten through it.
Marlo Thomas
#66. If you want to get somewhere in six months, you're not going to get there by wishing it.
Marlo Thomas
#69. A society is judged by the way it cares for its most vulnerable citizens. As an American, I am ashamed that we have turned out backs on millions of our children. I want to do my part to rectify this terrible situation.
Marlo Thomas
#70. I've always been a champion of kids pursuing their dreams. But sometimes in life, extraordinary circumstances may force us to temporarily put our dreams on hold. The most important thing is to never lose sight of that dream, no matter what punches life may throw in our way.
Marlo Thomas
#71. A feminist is a man or woman who already knows for a fact that men and women are qual and wants society to wake up to that fact, so the world can stop operating at half-strength.
Marlo Thomas
#72. They never tell a lie, not a small fabrication, not a partial truth, nor any gross unreal statement. No lies at all, so they have nothing to hide. They are a group of people who are not afraid to have their minds open.
Marlo Morgan
#73. I was an educated girl. I'd done very well in school. I had a good point average and graduated from USC as an English teacher. My dad didn't even finish high school.
Marlo Thomas
#74. One woman is a pest and two women is a team, but three women or more is a coalition. If you can bring a lot of people together as a coalition, you can get a lot changed.
Marlo Thomas
#75. What the results are telling them is that the most money is spent in volume by young people. They also see young people as the consumers of tomorrow and are trying to capture their attention from their competitors.
Marlo Thomas
#76. One of the things about equality is not just that you be treated equally to a man, but that you treat yourself equally to the way you treat a man.
Marlo Thomas
#77. As much success came to him, my father stayed true to his promise. He built the hospital to help the most helpless children with catastrophic illnesses.
Marlo Thomas
#78. Humankind is closer to experiencing paradise than ever before. We have the technology to feed every person in the world and the knowledge to provide a means of self-expression, self worth, shelter and more, for all people everywhere if we wish to do so.
Marlo Morgan
#79. Living with these teenage boys allowed me to see how much their psyches were like their girl counterparts. They were more familiar to me than I would have thought.
Marlo Thomas
#80. New things cannot come where there is no room.
Marlo Morgan
#81. It's important to think big, but you've got to work small.
Marlo Thomas
#82. I wondered what else in my life I perceived to be wrong or difficult instead of exploring to understand the true purpose.
Marlo Morgan
#83. Today, all patients accepted for treatment at St. Jude's are treated without regard for the family's ability to pay. Everything beyond what is covered by insurance is taken care of, and for those without insurance, all of the medical costs are absorbed by the hospital.
Marlo Thomas
#84. I would not change my life for anything. I have been through too much. I have learned too much. Now I know what I am made of.
Marlo Donato Parmelee
#85. Nothing is either all masculine or all feminine except having sex.
Marlo Thomas
#86. Everyone has blood and bones; the important one is your intention and your soul.
Marlo Morgan
#87. I don't think homosexuality is a choice. Society forces you to think it's a choice, but in fact, it's in one's nature. The choice is whether one expresses one's nature truthfully or spends the rest of one's life lying about it.
Marlo Thomas
#88. I find that balancing my life with my work with the kids at St. Jude, working on books, working on my career as an actor and taking time out for my husband and family help to cushion a lot of the blows.
Marlo Thomas
#90. Chiropractic solved my neck and shoulder pains; it put me back on my feet. I think chiropractic is great!
Marlo Thomas
#91. The only way to pass any test is to take the test. All tests on every level are always repeated one way or another until you pass.
Marlo Morgan
#92. I now know we each have two lives: the one we learn by and the one we live after that. The
Marlo Morgan
#93. I think that there's got to be a comic gene in some way, but it's so much about it is how you grow up.
Marlo Thomas
#94. I think in my case, I had no choice but to have a good sense of humor. I grew up with my dad, Danny Thomas, and George Burns and Bob Hope and Milton Berle and Sid Caesar and all those guys were at our house all the time and telling jokes and making each other laugh.
Marlo Thomas
#95. When I was growing up, my mother was always a friend to my siblings and me (in addition to being all the other things a mom is), and I was always grateful for that because I knew she was someone I could talk to and joke with, and argue with and that nothing would ever harm that friendship.
Marlo Thomas
#96. Laughter is important, not only because it makes us happy, it also has actual health benefits. And that's because laughter completely engages the body and releases the mind. It connects us to others, and that in itself has a healing effect.
Marlo Thomas
#97. There's no doubt about it ... I was born a feminist.
Marlo Thomas
#98. It is necessary to shed old ideas, habits, opinions and even companions sometimes.
Marlo Morgan
#99. The time has come to listen to the frightened moans of our fellow brothers and sisters and indeed the earth itself is in pain.
Marlo Morgan
#100. I know George Burns was a very happy man.
Marlo Thomas
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