I was so worried that people wouldn't like me or my story.
Fussing over children who cry only encourages them. That's positive reinforcement for negative behavior.
She had her addictions and one of them was reading.
Whenever I'm reading a book I enjoy, I always develop a mental list of the people I want to share it with.
If you don't want to sink, you better figure out how to swim
Memoir is about handing over you life to someone and saying, This is what I went through, this is who I am, and maybe you can learn something from it.
I never had any question that my parents loved me. I had a real sense of self confidence.
Horses are a mirror of who you are. They're emotionally dependent on you.
The women I know with strong personalities, the ones who might have become generals or the heads of companies if they were men, become teachers. Teaching is a calling, too. And I've always thought that teachers in their way are holy-angles leading their flocks out of the darkness.
Since Mom wasn't exactly the most useful person in the world, one lesson I learned at an early age was how to get things done, and this was a source of both amazement and concern for Mom, who considered my behavior unladylike but also counted on me. "I never knew a girl to have such gumption," she'd say. "But I'm not too sure it's a good thing.
Look at the way you live. You've sold out. Next thing I know you'll become a Republican." She shook her head. "Where are the values I raised you with?
Teaching is a calling too. And I've always thought that teachers in their way are holy - angels leading their flocks out of the darkness.
sometimes after I finished a particularly good book, I had the urge to get the library card, find out who else had read the book, and track them down to talk about it
Once you'd resolved to go, there was nothing to it at all.
I always wanted to be a serious journalist.
Don't worry, God understands,' Mom said. 'He knows that your father is a cross we must bear.
I found out that people are incredibly compassionate and kind. It really changed my view of the world.
The way Mom saw it, women should let menfolk do the work because it made them feel more manly. That notion only made sense if you had a strong man willing to step up and get things done, and between Dad's gimp, Buster's elaborate excuses, and Apache's tendency to disappear, it was often up to me to keep the place from falling apart. But even when everyone was pitching in, we never got out from under all the work. I loved that ranch, though sometimes it did seem that instead of us owning the place, the place owned us.
New Yorkers, I figured, just pretended to be unfriendly.
It was good work, the kind of work that let you sleep soundly at night and, when you awoke, look forward to the day.
As I sat down, though, I realized that you can get used to certain luxuries that you start to think they're necessities, but when you have to forgo them, you come to see that you don't need them after all. There was a big difference between needing things and wanting things--though a lot of people had trouble telling the two apart--and at the ranch, I could see, we have pretty much everything we'd need but precious little else.
Mom could say that in hindsight, but it seemed to me that when you were in the middle of something, it was awful hard to figure out what part of it was God's will and what wasn't.
I could see why Archimedes got all excited. There was nothing finer than the feeling that came rushing through you when it clicked and you suddenly understood something that had puzzled you. It made you think it just might be possible to get a handle on this old world after all.
Everything in life is gray, you know.
If you had weak eyes, they needed exercise to get strong. Glasses were like crutches. They prevented people with feeble eyes from seeing the world on their own.
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