Lucy Quotes - Page 6

• Right after graduation, I married Samuel Fisher Babbitt, an academic administrator. I spent the next ten years in Connecticut, Tennessee, and Washington, D.C., raising our children, Christopher, Tom, and Lucy.

  Natalie Babbitt

  Children, Years, Tennessee

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• I watched a lot of old television growing up - a lot of Nick at Nite. I watched 'Rhoda', 'Mary Tyler Moore', and 'I Love Lucy.' Growing up, I loved 'My So Called Life' and was devastated when that went off the air.

  Mamie Gummer

  Growing Up, Air, Television

  "Emily Owens, M.D. Star Mamie Gummer Reveals Her Mom's (Meryl Streep!) Movies That Make Her Laugh, Cry, and Watch Again and Again". Interview with Jessica Radloff, www.glamour.com. October 16, 2012.

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• The future is in great hands with feminists such as Carla Buzasi, Caroline Criado-Perez, Lucy-Anne Holmes

  Bonnie Greer

  Hands, Feminist, Holmes

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• Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Linus, Lucy. How can I ever forget them.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Forget, Brown, Snoopy

  "Farewell to Peanuts and Schulz" by Duncan Campbell, www.theguardian.com. February 13, 2000.

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• I have a good time watching Nick At Night with the old shows on there. I love to see I Love Lucy, although I've seen them many, many times. I think it's a security factor, it's like your blanket.

  Jamie Farr

  Night, Thinking, Good Times

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• She broke up with me. Didn't really tell me why. Luckily when you're the guy, you can just tell people she's crazy. 'Hey, Tom, I heard you and Lucy broke up.' 'Yeah, man. Turns out, she's crazy.' That's what they always do on Entourage.

  Aziz Ansari

  Crazy, Men, People

  "Fictional character: Tom Haverford". Parks and Recreation, 2009–2015.

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• I don't like it when people ask me what my favourite Beatles song is. I always get that. First of all, I don't like having to pick a favourite thing anyway. You can't pick a favourite Beatles song! What about "Strawberry Fields"? What about "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds"? What about "Tomorrow Never Knows"? Come on. That question is small minded to think you could even have a favourite Beatles song.

  Kemp Muhl

  Song, Thinking, Sky

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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• I did marry, I did get pregnant, but as I was giving birth, my daughter and I almost died. We were rushed to the hospital. I had an emergency cesarean and in that moment, in the emergency room, I felt my grandmother come to me. She was with me and when my daughter was born, instead of naming her Hailey, I named her Lucy after my grandmother. Hailey lives in the pages of my books.

  Nancy Grace

  Daughter, Book, Grandmother

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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• Somebody realized, hey, students are printing dummy ads and dummy news stories, why don't they really print something. So there was the Shortridge Daily Echo, and a hell of a lot of writers have come out of Shortridge on that account. The head writer of the I Love Lucy show, Madelyn Pugh, was a schoolmate of mine. Dan Wakefield. Writing was a perfectly reasonable thing to do.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Writing, Echoes, News Stories

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• I've always wanted to have a Greek sitcom called Olive Lucy.

  Zach Galifianakis

  Greek, Olives, Wanted

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• Lucy Lawless presented a couple of the awards. And, when I walked off the stage with her after one of them, she said "Oh, I want to introduce you to my friend Madeleine," and that's how I met Madeleine. I realize that's a ridiculous story.

  Ladyhawke

  Couple, Awards, Stories

  Brightest Young Things Interview, brightestyoungthings.com. June 23, 2016.

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• An unusual sensation possesses my breast - a sensation which I once thought could never pervade it on any occasion whatever. It is pleasure, pleasure, my dear Lucy, on leaving my paternal roof.

  Hannah Webster Foster

  Women, Home, Leaving

  William Wells Brown, Hannah Webster Foster (1996). “The Power of Sympathy and The Coquette”, p.107, Penguin

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• After the discovery in 1918 of love letters revealing that Franklin was involved with Lucy Mercer: The bottom dropped out of my own particular world, I faced myself, my surroundings, my world, honestly for the first time.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Love, Discovery, World

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• Lucy: Our teacher wants us to write an essay on praying. Charlie Brown: Praying is important when you wake up at two o'clock in the morning feeling sick from eating something dumb the day before. Lucy: I'll just say we were out of town and I didn't have time to write anything.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Teacher, Morning, Writing

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• Girls aren't very good at keeping maps in their brains", said Edmund, "That's because we've got something in them", replied Lucy.

  C. S. Lewis

  Girl, Brain, Maps

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• When I'm older I'll understand" said Lucy, " I am older and I don't think I want to understand", replied Edmund

  C. S. Lewis

  Thinking, Want, Said

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• Lucy woke out of the deepest sleep you can imagine, with the feeling that the voice she liked best in the world had been calling her name.

  C. S. Lewis

  Sleep, Names, Voice

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• TV has eaten up everything else, and Warhol films are all that are left, which is fabulous. Pork could become the next I Love Lucy, the great American domestic comedy. It's about how people really live, not like Lucy, who never touched dishwater. It's about people living and hustling to survive.

  David Bowie

  People, Hustle, Pork

  David Bowie (2016). “David Bowie: The Last Interview”, p.46, Melville House

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• Lucy took a single plain donut from the bag and held it for me to take a bite. Tender and light and still warm from the frying. Not too sugary.

  Robert Crais

  Food, Light, Cooking

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• In our case, finding a Lucy is unique. No one will ever find another Lucy. You can't order one from a biological supply house. It's a unique discovery, a unique specimen.

  Donald Johanson

  Unique, Finding The One, Discovery

  "The Quest for Human Origins". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. January 25, 1991.

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• In Haverford on the Platte the townspeople still talk of Lucy Gayheart.

  Willa Cather

  Book, Stills

  Willa Cather (2011). “Lucy Gayheart”, p.3, Vintage

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• Now the line was drawn. Lucy had never thought that one of the fiercest battles of her life would be fought over a breakfast table, with quiet words carefully chosen.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Battle, Would Be, Breakfast

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• The book that made a lasting impression was the one my mother gave each of us when she decided we were ready for our first "adult novel," Lucy Maud Montgomery's The Blue Castle.

  Hallie Ephron

  Mother, Book, Blue

  "Coming of Age with the Ephron Sisters—and Their Mother" by Hallie Ephron, www.oprah.com. March 2013.

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• When I go back to the core of my childhood, my cousin Lucy seems always to be in the peripheral vision of my memories. She is off to one side, always off to one side, with a book, with a scheme or a project or an enterprise.

  Martin Amis

  Cousin, Memories, Book

  "Experience". Book by Martin Amis, www.theguardian.com. 2000.

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• I am a fellow commoner at Lucy Cavendish College. My husband used to be a lecturer at Leeds University, and we lived in Yorkshire for 11 years. When he gave up his job, we realised we could live wherever we liked.

  Sophie Hannah

  Jobs, Husband, College

  "Sophie Hannah: 'It's surprising how many poems turn out to be about sex'". Interview with Kate Kellaway, www.theguardian.com. April 19, 2014.

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