Mary A. Lathbury quote: "Feast of Oswald, King of Northumbria, Martyr, 642 Continuing a short series of verse on Christ: Break Thou the bread of life, Dear Lord, to me, As Thou didst break the loaves Beside the sea; Beyond the sacred page I seek Thee, Lord; My spirit pants for Thee, O living word! Bless Thou the truth, dear Lord, To me, to me, As Thou didst bless the bread By Galilee; Then shall all bondage cease, All fetters fall; And I shall find my peace, My All-in-All."

I sing the Poppy! The frail snowy weed! The flower of Mercy! that within its heart Doth keep...
MARY A. BARR

Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up.
A. A. MILNE

What I say is that, if a fellow really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.
A. A. MILNE

Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.
A. A. MILNE

Tiggers don't like honey.
A. A. MILNE

I suppose that every one of us hopes secretly for immortality; to leave, I mean, a name behind him w...
A. A. MILNE

Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad.
A. A. MILNE

My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong place...
A. A. MILNE

Some people care too much. I think it's called love.
A. A. MILNE

To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.
A. A. MILNE

I am sure of this: that no one can write a book which children will like unless he write it for hims...
A. A. MILNE

War is something of man's own fostering, and if all mankind renounces it, then it is no longer t...
A. A. MILNE

Never forget me, because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.
A. A. MILNE

Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?
A. A. MILNE

It is easier to find a score of men wise enough to discover the truth than to find one intrepid enou...
A. A. HODGE

Bores can be divided into two classes; those who have their own particular subject, and those who do...
A. A. MILNE

If the person you are talking to doesn't appear to be listening, be patient. It may simply be that h...
A. A. MILNE

The purpose of the present course is the deepening and development of difficulties underlying contem...
A. A. BLASOV

Just because an animal is large, it doesn't mean he doesn't want kindness; however big Tigger seems...
A A MILNE

Even though we've changed and we're all finding our own place in the world, we all know that when th...
A. A. MILNE

When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing w...
A. A. MILNE

One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.
A. A. MILNE

Some love one, some love two. I love one, and that is you.
A. A. MILNE

Time is swift, it races by; Opportunities are born and die... Still you wait and will not try - A bi...
A. A. MILNE

Silence is a text easy to misread.
A. A. ATTANASIO

Is 'The Wind in the Willows' a children's book? Is 'Alice in Wonderland?' Is ...
A. A. MILNE

If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live wi...
A. A. MILNE

You will be better advised to watch what we do instead of what we say.
A. A. MILNE

Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you see...
A. A. MILNE

The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is onl...
A. A. MILNE

Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.
A. A. MILNE

You can't stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to...
A. A. MILNE

Don't underestimate the value of doing nothing, of just going along, listening to all the thing ...
A. A. MILNE

It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy...
A. A. MILNE

The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbelief - call it what you will - ...
A. A. MILNE

A clever conjurer is welcome anywhere, and those of us whose powers of entertainment are limited to ...
A. A. MILNE

Oh, help!” said Pooh. “I’d better go back.”
“Oh, bother!” said Pooh. “I shall hav...
MILNE, A. A.

How would it be,” said Pooh slowly, “if, as soon as we’re out of sight of this Pit, we try to ...
MILNE, A. A.

Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and s...
A. A. MILNE

I am a Bear of Very Little Brain, and long words bother me.
A. A. MILNE

If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.
A. A. MILNE

For one person who dreams of making fifty thousand pounds, a hundred people dream of being left fift...
A. A. MILNE

"How long does getting thin take?" Pooh asked anxiously.
A. A. MILNE

My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.
A. A. MILNE

I have decided to catch a Heffalump.
A. A. MILNE

He is wise who knows the sources of knowledge - who knows who has written and where it is to be foun...
A. A. HODGE

The wind was against them now, and Piglet's ears streamed behind him like banners as he fought his w...
MILNE, A. A.

The trees taunt you; the sand mocks you; the water calls your name and they say golf is a quiet game
A. A. MILNE

An interesting thing about golf is that no matter how badly you play, it is always possible to get w...
A. A. MILNE

"When you wake up in the morning, Pooh," said Piglet at last, "what's the first thing you say to you...
A. A. MILNE

I'm giving him a Useful Pot to Keep Things In.
A. A. HODGE

How sweet to be a Cloud Floating in the Blue!
A. A. HODGE

You must never go down to the end of the town if you don't go down with me.
A. A. HODGE

No one truth is rightly held till it is clearly conceived and stated, and no single truth is adequat...
A. A. HODGE

It is easier to find a score of men wise enough to discover the truth than to find one intrepid enou...
A. A. HODGE

It's snowing still," said Eeyore gloomily. "So it is." "And freezing." "Is it?" "Yes," said Eeyore. ...
A. A. MILNE

Never forget me, because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.
A. A. MILNE

They're changing guard at Buckingham Palace - / Christopher Robin went down with Alice.
A. A. MILNE

'Supposing a tree fell down, Pooh, when we were underneath it?' 'Supposing it didn't,' said Pooh. Af...
A. A. MILNE

An Expedition to the North Pole.
A. A. HODGE

The more he looked inside the more Piglet wasn't there
A. A. MILNE

No doubt Jack the Ripper excused himself on the grounds that it was human nature.
A. A. MILNE

We can't all, and some just don't. That's all there is to it.
A. A. MILNE

Tiggers don't like honey.
A. A. MILNE

He respects Owl, because you can't help respecting anybody who can spell TUESDAY, even if he doesn't...
A. A. MILNE

Hush! Hush! Whisper who dares! [Christopher Robin is saying his prayers]
A. A. MILNE

Christopher Robin had a question to ask first, and he was wondering how to ask it."Well," he said at...
A. A. MILNE

The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbelief-call it what you will-than...
A. A. MILNE

"When you wake up in the morning, Pooh," said Piglet at last, "what's the first thing you say to you...
A. A. MILNE

A church has no right to make anything a condition of membership which Christ has not made a conditi...
A. A. HODGE

Faith must have adequate evidence, else it is mere superstition.
A. A. HODGE

Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.
A. A. MILNE

For every minute spent in organizing, an hour is earned.
A. A. MILNE

How sweet to be a Cloud Floating in the Blue!
A. A. HODGE

A writer wants something more than money for his work: he wants permanence.
A. A. MILNE

No sensible author wants anything but praise.
A. A. MILNE

I gave up writing children's books. I wanted to escape from them as I had once wanted to escape ...
A. A. MILNE

Cooking and baking is both physical and mental therapy.
MARY BERRY

My inner critic who had begun piping up about how hopeless I was and how I didn't know to write.
MARY GARDEN

I decided to write about the myths of divorce.
MARY GARDEN

I deleted all the games from my computer. I spent days trawling the Internet. I started slowly.
MARY GARDEN

If you really want to write, then shut yourself in a room, close the door, and WRITE. If you don'...
MARY GARDEN

Reading Stephen King's book, On Writing, was like being cornered and forced to have a long, draw...
MARY GARDEN

My biggest excuse to others and myself was that I had writer's block, as if it was some kind of ...
MARY GARDEN

In the back of my mind was the constant hankering, almost yearning, to write but something always st...
MARY GARDEN

Krishna children were taught that in the spiritual world there were no parents, only souls and hence...
MARY GARDEN

I was a new devotee of Eastern mysticism and even though I did not join that particular group, I cou...
MARY GARDEN

For a long period in my life - it lasted about 10 years - I had writer's block.
MARY GARDEN

In the early 1930s, flying from England to Australia was the longest flight in the world. It was con...
MARY GARDEN

A wonderful emotion to get things moving when one is stuck is anger. It was anger more than anything...
MARY GARDEN

My block was due to two overlapping factors: laziness and lack of discipline.
MARY GARDEN

It was not uncommon for the children to be told they were being treated this way because it was thei...
MARY GARDEN

Research on child abuse suggests that religious beliefs can foster, encourage, and justify the abuse...
MARY GARDEN

Life is obstinate and clings closest where it is most hated.
MARY SHELLEY

If God had not intended that Women shou'd use their Reason, He wou'd not have given them any...
MARY ASTELL

I long for my garden to be complete. Working in it is one of my joys, but it will never be finished ...
MARY QUANT

Stop the habit of wishful thinking and start the habit of thoughtful wishes.
MARY MARTIN

When people suffer, their relationships usually suffer as well. Period. And we all suffer because, a...
MARY KARR

Nothing you become will disappoint me; I have no preconception that I'd like to see you be or do. I ...
MARY HASKELL

There are no absolutes in this world, and there will always be mistakes that are made within brokera...
MARY SCHAPIRO

When I opened my first shop, city gents were still carrying tightly furled umbrellas and wearing bow...
MARY QUANT

I have a theory of living on the boundary: on the boundary of patriarchy and the boundary of differe...
MARY DALY

Having children is the greatest thing that can happen to you as a husband and wife. They are infuria...
MARY BERRY

I wasn't the brightest button in the class at school, but I enjoyed cooking and baking. I wasn&#...
MARY BERRY

I usually wear only a bit of pink lippy, but for TV, they add a few extra lashes to brighten my eyes...
MARY BERRY

To many women marriage is only this. It is merely a physical change impinging on their ordinary natu...
MARY WEBB

In my end is my beginning.
MARY STUART

You can figure out who you were by which movies you loved when.
MARY SCHMICH

'The Hunger Games' isn't for everybody. But neither is 'Anna Karenina.'
MARY SCHMICH

For some Chicago expats, food is the medicine that blunts the pain of separation.
MARY SCHMICH

TV happens. And once it's happened, it's gone. When it's gone, you move on, no tears, no...
MARY SCHMICH

The first gay person I ever met was surely not the first gay person I ever met.
MARY SCHMICH

The movies we love and admire are to some extent a function of who we are when we see them.
MARY SCHMICH

You can map your life through your favorite movies, and no two people's maps will be the same.
MARY SCHMICH

Don't be reckless with other people's hearts, don't put up with those who are reckless w...
MARY SCHMICH

In twenty years you'll look back at photos of yourself and recall in a way you can't grasp n...
MARY SCHMICH

Like many women my age, I am 28 years old.
MARY SCHMICH

Every day each of us wakes up, reaches into drawers and closets, pulls out a costume for the day and...
MARY SCHMICH

On an average day, we allow ourselves the fiction that we own a piece of our workplace. That's p...
MARY SCHMICH

I couldn't have foreseen all the good things that have followed my mother's death. The renew...
MARY SCHMICH

Don't expect anyone else to support you. Maybe you'll have a trust fund. Maybe you'll ha...
MARY SCHMICH

Understand that friends come and go, but with a precious few you should hold on. The older you get, ...
MARY SCHMICH

Opening day. All you have to do is say the words and you feel the shutters thrown wide, the room air...
MARY SCHMICH

Dad thought something very fishy was going on when, at 22, I was offered a job for £1,000 a ye...
MARY BERRY

Campaigning in Wyoming is politics at its most retail level. It's done one voter at a time.
MARY CHENEY

One of our most promising technologies is Super Cruise, which is the working name for an innovative ...
MARY BARRA

I was always nervous before a television show, and I still am now. But 'The Great British Bake O...
MARY BERRY

When you look at the truck market in North America, you have to understand the customer, and that...
MARY BARRA

If you are buying a larger turkey than usual, make sure it will fit in the oven.
MARY BERRY

I mainly cook British food with a few things I've had on my holidays. I went to the Canary Islan...
MARY BERRY

Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. J...
MARY BUCKLEY

The test of man is how well he is able to feel about what he thinks. The test of a woman is how we...
MARY MCDOWELL

Liberty, as it is concieved by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift ...
MARY MCCARTY

Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift ...
MARY MCCARTHY

Young writers often mistakenly choose a certain vein or style based on who they want to be, unconsci...
MARY KARR

But I am a blasted tree; the bolt has entered my soul; and I felt then that I should survive to exhi...
MARY SHELLEY

The best way of forgetting how you think you feel is to concentrate on what you know you know.
MARY STEWART

Mormons... are so strong, they can handle wealth, they are confident. I think it is because they are...
MARY DOUGLAS

When I walk down the boardwalk, people stop me and say, 'Oh, your house is the one that glows.&#...
MARY MATALIN

In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if e...
MARY MCCARTHY

There wasn't one particular thing that made us say we needed to have this drill, it's more of a gene...
MARY AUSTIN

When a woman ceases to alter the fashion of her hair, you guess that she has passed the crisis of he...
MARY AUSTIN

Genius . . . arises in the natural, aboriginal concern for the conscious unity of all phenomena.
MARY AUSTIN

We have 60 hills of rhubarb now. When we bought the farm in 1946 we found it coming up in the pastur...
MARY AUSTIN

If you are not at your ideal body weight and are not active, over time, you have a risk of diabetes.
MARY AUSTIN

Our emergency preparedness is always an ongoing priority. We're constantly working on it at the Clin...
MARY AUSTIN

The Stoughton tornado was probably a motivator as well, because that could just as easily have been ...
MARY AUSTIN

What women have to stand on squarely is not their ability to see the world in the way men see it, bu...
MARY AUSTIN

People would be surprised to know how much I learned about prayer from playing poker
MARY AUSTIN

These findings are very reflective of what we see around the world. The rise in weight and obesity i...
MARY AUSTIN

The Internet is a boon for hypochondriacs like me.
MARY ROACH

People who didn't live pre-Internet can't grasp how devoid of ideas life in my hometown was....
MARY KARR

To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it again...
MARY OLIVER

My mother always read to me as a child. I really believe that bonding time between a parent and chil...
MARY ENGELBREIT

A slavish bondage to parents cramps every faculty of the mind.
MARY SHELLEY

The mills of God work like lightning compared with the law.
MARY STEWART

Having money is rather like being a blond. It is more fun but not vital.
MARY QUANT

To care for the quarrels of the past, to identify oneself passionately with a cause that became, pol...
MARY MCCARTHY

Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wr...
MARY HEMINGWAY

But the things is, you see, that two people can never actually become one no matter how close they a...
MARY BALOGH

...friendship...is essential to intellectuals. You can date the evolving life of a mind, like the ag...
MARY MCCARTHY

Women's courage is rather different from men's. The fact that women have to bring up childre...
MARY WESLEY

The biggest message I have for young women is, Don't start cutting off branches of your career t...
MARY BARRA

World peace starts with the Creator- Jesus!!
MARY KATE

We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.
MARY MCCARTHY

A person without a memory is either a child or an amnesiac. A country without a memory is neither a ...
MARY ASTOR

A painter paints, a musician plays, a writer writes - but a movie actor waits.
MARY ASTOR

It's not good to make sentimental journeys. You see the differences instead of the sameness.
MARY ASTOR

The man who goes fishing gets something more than the fish he catches.
MARY ASTOR

Don't be reckless with other people's hearts, don't put up with those who are reckless with yours.
MARY SCHMICH

To be kind to all, to like many and love a few, to be needed and wanted by those we love, is certain...
MARY STUART

Two may talk together under the same roof for many years, yet never really meet; and two others at ...
MARY CATHERWOOD

It's like a candy store for an illustrator, I connected with Harry pretty quickly and loved the ...
MARY GRANDPRE

to live in this world

you must be able
to do three things
to love what is morta...
MARY OLIVER

You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles thro...
MARY OLIVER

The Uses Of Sorrow

(In my sleep I dreamed this poem)

Someone I loved on...
MARY OLIVER

Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, w...
MARY OLIVER

Instructions for living a life.
Pay attention.
Be astonished.
Tell about it.
MARY OLIVER

Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?
MARY OLIVER

Every spring
I hear the thrush singing
in the glowing woods
he is only passing throug...
MARY OLIVER

Do one thing everyday that scares you.
MARY SCHMICH

[I]f we revert to history, we shall find that the women who have distinguished themselves have neith...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

It was the challenge of life too, was it not? People could never be fully understood. They were ever...
MARY BALOGH

My own sex, I hope, will excuse me, if I treat them like rational creatures, instead of flattering t...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

All night my heart makes its way
however it can over the rough ground
of uncertainties, bu...
MARY OLIVER

To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work.
MARY OLIVER

There are few men more superstitious than soldiers. They are, after all, the men who live closest to...
MARY STEWART

The test of man is how well he is able to feel about what he thinks. The test of a woman is how well...
MARY MCDOWELL

Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them tender.
MARY BUCKLEY

If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call f...
MARY PICKFORD

I have never been contained except I made the prison
MARY EVANS

The happy ending is our national belief.
MARY MCCARTHY

There is no pleasure in having nothing to do. The fun is in having lots to do and not doing it.
MARY LITTLE

The past is only the present become invisible and mute; and because it is invisible and mute, its me...
MARY WEBB

It is harder to kill a whisper than even a shouted calumny.
MARY STEWART

Saddle your dreams before you ride em.
MARY WEBB

Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift ...
MARY MCCARTHY

No pressure, no diamonds.
MARY CASE

Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.
MARY BYRANT

It seems safe to say that significant discovery, really creative thinking, does not occur with regar...
MARY HENLE

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