Polly Quotes

#1. Polly had always marveled ... that her country would name such a processed and unnatural product [American cheese] after itself, yet hungry Rose ... gleefully ate every individually wrapped, plastic little one of them.

Sheri Holman

#2. A married couple never seem so married as when viewed from the back seat of a motor car, talking quietly together in the front. Polly and Marcus might have been in their bedroom already, so soft and intimate their converse sounded to me, as I sat there alertly mute behind the backs of their heads

John Banville

#3. They very seldom let me lose my cool. They made me like I was Polly Perfect, which was ridiculous so that when I bump into kids on the street they'd say 'I wish my Mom were like you.'

Charlotte Rae

#4. She was like John Rambo meets Polly Pocket; Dakota Fanning crossed with Death Wish 4.

Mark Millar

#5. A club hurts the flesh, but evil words hurt the bone. -Traditional Chinese Proverb

Matthew Polly

#6. Maybe we live in a universe where all you have control over is your own kindness.

Polly Horvath

#7. The only really interesting thing about someone that makes you want to explore them further is their heart, and Miss Honeycut has a teeny tiny pea-sized one and it takes you nowhere you want to go.

Polly Horvath

#8. Whenever the child is given the notion that he needs to be entertained, learning comes almost to a halt.

Polly Berrien Berends

#9. Help your children to see and notice poverty and differences in privilege that seem inhumane and unfair. Do this in a way that does not increase guilt or shame for what you have as a family, but rather helps them see their responsibility for sharing with others and keeping others in mind.

Polly Young-Eisendrath

#10. Some people, well, most people just seem to show up on your life with no clear purpose. Have you noticed that? They're like dust mites. You know they're there, you just don't know what to do about them.

Polly Horvath

#11. Suddenly I realize that everyone in the whole world is, at the end of a day, staring at a dusky horizon, owner of a day that no one else will ever know.

Polly Horvath

#12. You can be sunk low or as a skunk and still have a joy in your heart. Joy lives like one of those spinning things
a gyroscope in your heart. It doesn't seem to have any connection to circumstance, good or bad.

Polly Horvath

#13. Btw Pink Floyd album out in October is called 'The Endless River.' Based on 1994 sessions is Rick Wright's swansong and very beautiful.

Polly Samson

#14. How is it that time can be elastic? Sometimes years seem to go by while you're looking the other way, and sometimes-when you most long for it to pass-life-times can stretch from a few hours

Polly Johnson

#15. This is indeed a clash of civilisations, not between Islam and Christendom but between reason and superstition.

Polly Toynbee

#16. What are you doing?"
"I'm darning a sock," he said, holding it up to show me.
"What's that lump inside?"
"A sock egg."
"A sock egg? I didn't know socks hatched from eggs."
"Only the best ones do. I can't wear the cheap kind, the ones that grow on trees. They give me blisters.

Polly Shulman

#17. A sense of worthiness is a child's most important need.

Polly Berrien Berends

#18. We turned our attention back to Jeff, who just started his interrogation of Polly, who looked horrendous. I didn't mean that in a hateful way. She really did look awful. Like someone took the sick-and-pale stick and beat her senseless with it.

Shelly Crane

#19. Sometimes Italian fashion, especially in the summer, is bright and gaudy and tarty, so I'd be buying these bright pink and bright orange things, and when I got home, I'd just go, 'What was I thinking? I can't wear this!'

Polly Walker

#20. The best care on earth cannot prevent us all dying in the end.

Polly Toynbee

#21. Jewelry and clothes for Isabel and Polly. A piece of the Berlin Wall for Esther.

Liane Moriarty

#22. Especially with our first child, we tend to take too much responsibility
both credit and blame
for everything. The more we wantto be good parents, the more we tend to see ourselves as making or breaking our children.

Polly Berrien Berends

#23. I was convinced I felt as strongly about Jane Austen's books as Ashleigh had ever felt about any of her crazes, but my love was deep and silent - and therefore easily overshadowed.

Polly Shulman

#24. Baltimore is one of the most beautiful towns, really. And trust me, I don't say that about every place. There is just something so quaint, old and beautiful about this place.

Polly Bergen

#25. Could a government dare to set out with happiness as its goal? Now that there are accepted scientific proofs, it would be easy to audit the progress of national happiness annually, just as we monitor money and GDP.

Polly Toynbee

#26. People can be hurt so badly that they choose to just stop in their tracks.

Polly Horvath

#27. People want the right to die at a time of their own choosing. Too many families have watched helplessly as a relative dies slowly, longing for death.

Polly Toynbee

#28. When I was young, they just gave me the lead. And when I got old, they wouldn't see me at all.

Polly Bergen

#29. [ ... ] The monks sped up the process up for us laowai who have less time, less patience for basics, and a greater need for external markers of our accomplishments.

Matthew Polly

#30. My Lords temporal, today is the day to rise up against the regiment of Lords spiritual and proclaim the values of enlightenment, compassion and common sense.

Polly Toynbee

#31. I don't think I will get married," Polly said as she stood up. "I'm going to train to be a hero instead.

Diana Wynne Jones

#32. She put him near the front door and a number of visitors were surprised that he would not answer to the name 'Polly', which is what all parrots were supposed to be called.

Gustave Flaubert

#33. A house is not a home.

Polly Adler

#34. So what really works? Treatments in jail do some good, but it's mostly too late: finding a family and a job or just growing older make most prisoners eventually give up crime.

Polly Toynbee

#35. Polly Esther Doe was born at 8:03 a.m. on August 14.

Adam Rex

#36. Polly put the kettle on, we'll all have tea.

Charles Dickens

#37. The one who asks questions does not lose his way.

Polly Shulman

#38. Is anyone serious about the politics of happiness? David Cameron dipped a toe in the water, using the word lightly, but denying the hard policies it implies. Labour shies away from it, but should take up the challenge.

Polly Toynbee

#39. American mythology would have it that divorced or widowed women in their middle years were desperate to remarry. That had not been Polly's experience. Most had made lives they enjoyed and would only compromise for a very shiny white knight with a particularly breathtaking steed.

Nevada Barr

#40. When they're laughing at you, their guard is down. When their guard is down, you can kick them in the fracas.

Terry Pratchett

#41. I think that it is death alone that makes things poignant.

Polly Horvath

#42. The gain is not the having of children; it is the discovery of love and how to be loving.

Polly Berrien Berends

#43. In another moment he was flying down the street with his pail and a tingling rear, Tom was whitewashing with vigor, and Aunt Polly was retiring from the field with a slipper in her hand and triumph in her eye.

Mark Twain

#44. Then it is about sex," said Polly flatly. "It's a folk song, it starts with 'twas,' it takes place in May, QED, it's about sex. Is a milkmaid involved? I bet she is.

Terry Pratchett

#45. Like prayer, reading is also a way of changing course.

Polly Berends

#46. Nothing keeps people together like the exalted conviction that they alone are to be spared that eternal anguish of hell fire to which everyone else will be condemned.

Polly Toynbee

#47. I would never go home again in quite the same way, but that was okay too.

Polly Horvath

#48. I had an amazing advantage: a grandmother [Polly Noonan, an influential confidante of the mayor of Albany] who loved politics. She taught me not to listen to negative press or people. I grew up knowing politics was rough-and-tumble.

Kirsten Gillibrand

#49. The trouble with most problem-solving books for parents is that they start with the idea that the child has a problem. Then they try to tell us how to fix the child, or else, after blaming the parent, they suggest how we can fix ourselves.

Polly Berrien Berends

#50. Don't worry the trolls don't come to you. It's your own darkness that leads you to the trolls.

Polly Horvath

#51. The parent is the strongest statement that the child hears regarding what it means to be alive and real. More than what we say or do, the way we are expresses what we think it means to be alive. So the articulate parent is less a telling than a listening individual.

Polly Berrien Berends

#52. Seeing the transformation in Aaron made me wonder how it would feel to have someone-even a not-so-nice guy like Aaron- look at me the way he looked at Anjali.

Polly Shulman

#53. There's something about sports. You can be setting fire to cats and burying them in your backyard, but as long as you're playing team sports, people think you're okay.

Polly Horvath

#54. Everything that happens is either a blessing, which is also a lesson, or a lesson which is also a blessing.

Polly Berrien Berends

#55. Oh, a mermaid's comb. Heavy stuff, but safe enough as long as you don't use it around water. Or a busy highway. You're not planning to lure any young men to their doom, are you?
How embarrassing! I shook my head, blushing.

Polly Shulman

#56. Working lives are for the state to influence. Unemployment makes people unhappy. So does instability.

Polly Toynbee

#57. Show me a woman content with her figure and I'll show you a seven-year-old girl. Everybody else is engaged in the war against flab.

Polly Bergen

#58. Polly finished her huge narrative during the summer term. The day after she had finished it, she went round with the oddest mixture of feelings, pride at having got it done, sick of the sight of it and glad it was over, and completely lost without it.

Diana Wynne Jones

#59. When you are the only laowai in a village of 10,000 Chinese martial artists and you've sat through several dozen films where a white man shouts, "You Chinese dog," before getting his ass kicked, it starts to irritate you. We all need role models.

Matthew Polly

#60. It's not a college degree that makes a writer. The great thing is to have a story to tell.

Polly Adler

#61. Perhaps that's why men did it. You didn't do it to save duchesses, or countries. You killed the enemy to stop him killing your mates, that they in turn might save you ...

Terry Pratchett

#62. What it comes down to is this: the grocer, the butcher, the baker, the merchant, the landlord, the druggist, the liquor dealer, the policeman, the doctor, the city father and the politician
these are the people who make money out of prostitution, these are the real reapers of the wages of sin.

Polly Adler

#63. You're a real Polly-fucking-Anna, aren't you?"
"I am. Also, Polly Fucking Anna would make a great name for a lesbian porno.

Tiffany Reisz

#64. Even people who know nothing about Greece know something about Greece. The very name sparks visions of ancient civilizations that dominated the Mediterranean.

Polly Letofsky

#65. Is this what it is to get older, to have adventures you can no longer tell your family because you are moving apart from them? ... Or do you grow up and have adventures you tell no one? Are some adventures only yours alone?

Polly Horvath

#66. The secret is to learn to sit at the feet of your own life and be taught by it.

Polly Berrien Berends

#67. You don't have no idea who you are. And if you don't know who you are," Polly continued, "you can't know nothing about where you beee-long.

Jonathan Odell

#68. and I had spent a few days debating whether or not Michael was actually gay or just English. With the advent of metrosexuals and Europeans running around Manhattan, one never knows.

Polly Courtney

#69. Oh, but Aunt Polly, Aunt Polly, you haven't left me any time at all just to- to live.

Eleanor Porter

#70. I started having a lot of problems with my voice in my mid-30s.

Polly Bergen

#71. John Waters is one of the sweetest, dearest, most adorable men I've ever worked with.

Polly Bergen

#72. My mother begged doctors to end her life. She was beyond the physical ability to swallow enough of the weak morphine pills she had around her. When she knew she was dying I promised to make sure she could go at a time of her choosing, but it was impossible. I couldn't help.

Polly Toynbee

#73. Polly was a writer of many deadlines. There were the ignorable deadlines, the not-to-be-taken-too-seriously deadlines: the deadlines-before-the-deadlines deadlines, and finally, the no-kidding-around deadlines. She set these various dates, she'd told him, to fool herself.

Martha Grimes

#74. As soon as my foot is in the light onstage, I am home. It is what I love to do. It is what I have always loved to do.

Polly Bergen

#75. You can't replace one dog with another any more than you can replace one person with another, but that's not to say you shouldn't get more dogs and people in your life.

Polly Horvath

#76. I think part of her feared that if Mother could leave her that way, she must be unlovable. And of course, she wasn't.

Polly Horvath

#77. That night, as the stars sparkled in the sky, Polly dreamed...

Brian Maunder

#78. I am one of those people who can't help getting a kick out of life - even when it's a kick in the teeth.

Polly Adler

#79. My list of things I never pictured myself saying when I pictured myself as a parent has grown over the years.

Polly Berrien Berends

#80. In the polls, over 80% support the right to die and have done for the last 25 years. Even 80% of practising Catholics and Protestants support it, plus 76% of Church Times readers.

Polly Toynbee

#81. My mother smoked too but I guessed by now she had quit the habit, which was, I supposed, one of the advantages of being shipwrecked.

Polly Horvath

#82. Oh! Polly thought. Why aren't all girls locked up by law the year they turn fifteen? They do such stupid things!

Diana Wynne Jones

#83. Thresholds of pain, indignity and incapacity are entirely personal.

Polly Toynbee

#84. I love street, adore street. Life is about mixing things and to be divine in the streets. Voila!

Polly Allen Mellen

#85. Openness about death has led to greater care about all aspects of dying.

Polly Toynbee

#86. A child needs both to be hugged and unhugged. The hug lets her know she is valuable. The unhug lets her know that she is viable. If you're always shoving your child away, they will cling to you for love. If you're always holding them closer, they will cling to you for fear.

Polly Berrien Berends

#87. I think this Law, by which I am punished, is both unreasonable in itself, and particularly severe ...
Polly Baker

Benjamin Franklin

#88. We do not have to get our children to learn; only to allow and encourage them in their learning. We do not have to dictate what they should learn; only to discern and respond to what it is that they are learning. Such responsiveness is at once the most educational and the most loving.

Polly Berrien Berends

#89. The SoLid DoVes," Polly read. "Yeah, well, these ladies weren't hired for their spelling," said Jackrum, pushing open the flap of the tent of ill repute. Inside

Terry Pratchett

#90. Once I saw Graham - wholly unconscious of her proximity - push her with his restless foot. She receded an inch or two. A minute after one little hand stole out from beneath her face, to which it had been pressed, and softly caressed the heedless foot.

Charlotte Bronte

#91. Only those who have tasted the bitterest of the bitter can become people who stand out among others. -Guanchang Xianxing Ji

Matthew Polly

#92. Happiness is a real, objective phenomenon, scientifically verifiable. That means people and whole societies can now be measured over time and compared accurately with one another. Causes and cures for unhappiness can be quantified.

Polly Toynbee

#93. We cannot spare our children the influence of harmful values by turning off the television any more than we can keep them home forever or revamp the world before they get there. Merely keeping them in the dark is no protection and, in fact, can make them vulnerable and immature.

Polly Berrien Berends

#94. The richness of our lives depends on what we are willing to notice and what we are willing to believe.

Polly Horvath

#95. She was alone in the stillness of the universe a little while before all the confusion began. It was if she could hear it ticking, check in on the life at the very center of it, its wellspring that everyone somehow knows, before it was covered by noise.

Polly Horvath

#96. We have the librarians on our side. We have *justice* on our side.

Polly Shulman

#97. Easy for you to say," Polly said. "You've lived here all your life and stayed under the radar. No one points at you."
"Sometimes small children point at my butt," Aunt Rhea said. "But that's just on account of all the fried chicken.

Kathy Hepinstall

#98. Polly had arrived in the world outraged to discover that her sisters had gotten there before her.

Liane Moriarty

#99. I am not in the body of life. I hover on the extremities. I float.

Polly Horvath

#100. We read a lot of books. Children's books mostly, because they're always much more truthful than adult books. And much more entertaining, said Mrs. Bunny.

Polly Horvath