Quotes About Merry Go Round

#1. It's no go the merry-go-round, it's no go the rickshaw
All we want is a limousine and a ticket for the peepshow.

Louis MacNeice

#2. As much as thinking this upsets me, I'm starting to see that I need the merry-go-round much more than it needs me, and in the end my choice is to hop back on or get left in the dust.

Wendelin Van Draanen

#3. On a cold bubbling spring, covered dishes and crocks and pitchers of milk and butter and so on flouated in a circle in the mild whirlpool, like horse on a merry-go-round, in the water that smelled of the mint that grew close by.

Eudora Welty

#4. Each generation must get on the same old merry-go-round, only disguised in a fresh coat of paint.

Katherine Anne Porter

#5. The merry-go-round is spinning too fast. I want to get off. I want to close my eyes, or just blink.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#6. This Universal wheel, this merry-go-round
In our imagination we have found
The sun a flame, in the Cosmic lantern bound
We are mere ghosts, revolving, the flame surround.

Omar Khayyam

#7. My mind spun like the flywheel on an antique John Deere, merry-go-round during second-grade recess, hard spun roulette wheel.

Dennis Vickers

#8. When I was five years old I was on a merry go round. There was a gunshot nearby. The horses stampeded. There I was running down the street on a purple wooden horse.

Steven Wright

#9. World's flying like birds; my car's in flight. The city lights are spattered on my windshield like the fragments of the night. And I'm in flight. The sky's a wheel, a merry-go-round of wings and snow and steel, and fire. We'll tread the sky, we'll ride the scarlet horses.

Tanith Lee

#10. I don't have any special passion for politics, it being a never-ending merry-go-round of bosses big and small, all generally mediocre. I actually find it boring.

Elena Ferrante

#11. Everything that is good in the day is even better in the night. A merry-go-round, a ferris wheel, a kiss from a girl.

Joe Hill

#12. When you're on a merry-go-round, you miss a lot of the scenery.

Neil Diamond

#13. Everywhere I've turned somebody has wanted to sacrifice me for my own good - only /they/ were the ones who benefited. And now we start on the old sacrificial merry-go-round. At what point do we stop?

Ralph Ellison

#14. No longer riding on the merry-go-round, I just had to let it go.

John Lennon

#15. Thought is a dead end; language is a merry-go-round.

Marty Rubin

#16. You're either on the Merry go round or you're not.

Lou Silluzio

#17. What You Lose on the Swings You Make Up on the Merry-Go-Round,

George V. Higgins

#18. Life isn't a merry-go-round, it's a roller coaster. Life won't always be smooth, it may not always be pretty, but it will be an adventure - one not to be missed.

Robert Glover

#19. All day long I've been telling myself it's only a merry-go-round. Some people fall off quicker than others. No big mystery.

Dan Jenkins

#20. It is not enough to reach for the brass ring. You must also enjoy the merry go round.

Julie Andrews

#21. This woman's size protected her
from the hurts of the world
but it also imprisoned her soul.
As the merry-go-round revolved, she ate another French fry,as a silent scream frozen on her face.

David W. Earle

#22. She fist bumped me, I say, pointing at Six. It's not my fault. She hates purses and she fist bumped me, then made me push her on the damn merry-go-round ... I'm into you because you're awesome. And because you let me accidentally touch your boob.

Colleen Hoover

#23. Authentic Christianity is a roller-coaster ride, not a merry-go-round.

Mark Hart

#24. You have to be a dead-eyed dirty-souled maniac to want to spend your extended life trading punches with other maniacs. Once you've seized that power, there's no getting off the merry-go-round. You fight like hell just to hold on or you get shoved off.

Scott Lynch

#25. It seemed amazing to me that one night could hold so much, from a merry-go-round to a Pop-Tart with frosting to the most beautiful singing I'd ever heard.

Sarah Dessen

#26. I have done the merry-go-round and I have ridden the roller-coaster. I have made my choice. I choose the roller-coaster. There is more risk when you choose the roller-coaster, but at least you will know you have lived.

Larry Winget

#27. Barthes found the exit to this merry-go-round by reminding himself that "it is language which is assertive, not he." It is absurd, Barthes says, to try to flee from language's assertive nature by "add[ing] to each sentence some little phrase of uncertainty,

Maggie Nelson

#28. I've never been to a hotel with a rotating restaurant on top, but one time I took my girlfriend to a merry-go-round, and I gave her a burrito.

Mitch Hedberg

#29. When I first heard merry-go-round, I thought, "Does she? I didn't know Mary was a slut.

Jarod Kintz

#30. There the Bush Administration has offered only a merry-go-round policy. They got up on their high horse, whooped and hollered, rode around in circles and ended right back where they'd started.

John F. Kerry

#31. But I hung on, like a tiny four-year-old grasping the curved bars of a playground merry-go-round when someone's older cousin spins it too fast. YAY, THIS IS FUN, KINDA!

Felicia Day

#32. Life's just a merry-go-round. Come on up. You might get a brass ring.

Mae West

#33. The sensation felt like spinning too fast on a merry-go-round. Each fraction of a second her eyes focused on a new face in a crowd. Within seconds the face was gone, whisked to a blur, replaced by another face that would just as soon be lost.

Heidi Julavits

#34. Sun is a hearthstone, a merry-go-round of extinguished hearthstones.

Dejan Stojanovic

#35. If there's one thing I could wish for right now, it would be to have one of those horses from the merry-go-round - they were the most exciting thing to go on as a kid.

Deborah Mailman

#36. 3762
Hence the necessity of getting off the merry-go-round too figure out what is really going on and let your sad feelings tell their own sometimes weird, complex, and long-winded story.

Frederick Woolverton

#37. Life isn't a 24/7 merry go round. If it were, you wouldn't get the 7 hours of sleep necessary to keep you fit and sane.

Jacqueline Leo

#38. Think about it - just getting rid of the fat doesn't get rid of the toxins, which are reabsorbed into your body. This creates a vicious cycle. Losing weight without learning to eliminate chemicals is like a merry-go-round. And it's why dieting doesn't work.

Suzanne Somers

#39. I love to go and mingle with the young
In the gay festal room
when every heart
Is beating faster than the merry tune,
And their blue eyes are restless, and their lips
Parted with eager joy, and their round cheeks
Flush'd with the beautiful motion of the dance.

Nathaniel Parker Willis