Snodgrass Quotes

#1. Hush. Don't ask any questions. It's always best on these occasions to do what the mob do."
"But suppose there are two mobs?" suggested Mr. Snodgrass.
"Shout with the largest," replied Mr. Pickwick.
Volumes could not have said more.

Charles Dickens

#2. Suffice it to say Cherie Snodgrass and I were good friends a long, long time ago. After Mr Snodgrass confronted my wife, the friendship ended and my marriage remained intact.

Henry Hyde

#3. I am younger each year at the first snow. When I see it, suddenly, in the air, all little and white and moving; then I am in love again and very young and I believe everything. Anne Sexton, in a letter to W.D. Snodgrass (November 28, 1958)

Anne Sexton

#4. Women, after all, gentlemen,' said the enthusiastic Mr. Snodgrass, 'are the great props and comforts of our existance.

Charles Dickens

#5. 'It wasn't the wine,' murmured Mr. Snodgrass, in a broken voice. 'It was the salmon.' (Somehow or other, it never is the wine, in these cases.)

Charles Dickens

#6. And you, whiner, who wastes your time
Dawdling over the remorseless earth,
What evil, what unspeakable crime
Have you made your life worth?

W. D. Snodgrass

#7. Bringing up teenagers is like sweeping back ocean waves with a frazzled broom-the inundation of outside influences never stops. Whatever the lure-cars, easy money, cigarettes, drugs, booze, sex, crime-much that glitters along the shore has a thousand times the appeal of a parent's lecture.

Mary Ellen Snodgrass

#8. How would you react if it was her walking into the lion's den?"
Jake's voice is low and lethally calm. "Chelsea can walk into any damn den she wants. Because I am the lion. And I'd make sure I was with her.

Emma Chase

#9. Trauma is personal.

Danielle Bernock

#10. There is nobody to wake up eternal seekers.

Dejan Stojanovic

#11. I've been accused of humanizing the Nazis, to which I can only say, you can't blame me for that. God did that. Go talk to him. It's a strange thing for an atheist to say.

W. D. Snodgrass

#12. Lighten up. Brighten up. Smile.

A.D. Posey

#13. The man turned away from Bobby, and the finality with which he did it made me glance at Bobby to see if he had disappeared as a result.

James Dickey

#14. In darkness and in hedges
I sang my sour tone
and all my love was howling
conspicuously alone.

W. D. Snodgrass

#15. I taught myself to name my name,
To bark back, loosen love and crying;
To ease my woman so she came,
To ease an old man who was dying.

W. D. Snodgrass

#16. And I realized that maybe none of us ever gets to choose our lives. Our only choice is to live the life that comes to us, or go down into darkness.

Melinda M. Snodgrass

#17. I have not learned how often I Can win, can love, but choose to die.

W. D. Snodgrass

#18. The sleek, expensive girls I teach,
Younger and pinker every year,
Bloom gradually out of reach.

W. D. Snodgrass

#19. Hope is possible, when you decide to believe that what you are hoping for is possible.

Patti Snodgrass

#20. The sweet reward for preparation often does not come in the youthful twenties or staid thirties. It arrives - with accrued interest - in the mature years.

Mary Ellen Snodgrass

#21. There's a new star in the YA firmament - A. K. Downing's series, beginning with Into The Air, is sure to be a reader favorite right up there with The Hunger Games and The 100 trilogy.

Richard Snodgrass

#22. You must call up every strength you own
And you can rip off the whole facial mask.

W. D. Snodgrass

#23. Southerners have been known to stay over the Fourth and not get home before Thanksgiving. Some oldtimers take in overnight guests and keep them through three generations.

Mary Ellen Snodgrass

#24. The cross is the gift God gives to his friends.

Philip Neri