Gladys Taber Quotes

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  • Almost all words do have colour and nothing is more pleasant than to utter a pink word and see someone's eyes light up and know it is a pink word for him or her too.

    Writing   Eye   Light  
  • Christmas is a kindling of new fires.

  • Being a good neighbor is an art which makes life richer.

  • The creative instincts, the love force must be nourished with every beat of our hearts until they overbalance the destructive instincts.

    Gladys Bagg Taber (1948). “The book of Stillmeadow”
  • Life is a process of discovery, of new perceptions.

  • Old houses, I thought, do not belong to people ever, not really, people belong to them.

  • Perhaps what makes friendship and love exciting is the continuing discovery of another personality.

  • Happiness is a thing of now.

  • Christmas is a bridge. We need bridges as the river of time flows past. Today's Christmas should mean creating happy hours for tomorrow and reliving those of yesterday.

    Christmas   Xmas   Mean  
    "Still Cove journal". Book by Gladys Taber, 1981.
  • A house with no fireplace is a house without a heart.

    Heart   Fire   House  
    Gladys Bagg Taber (1948). “The book of Stillmeadow”
  • nothing decorates a home like books. There they are, waiting to decorate the mind, too!

    Book   Home   Waiting  
  • Whoever decided that comic valentines were a good idea should have been sent away to think it over.

  • Some of the days in November carry the whole memory of summer as a fire opal carries the color of moonrise.

    Summer   Memories   Fire  
  • I suppose I am a sparrow, a stay-at-home bird.

    Home   Bird   Sparrows  
    Gladys Bagg Taber, Barbara Webster (1953). “Stillmeadow and Sugarbridge”
  • My general attitude toward life when I first get up is of deep suspicion, verging on hatred. ... I am simply basted together until after breakfast.

    Gladys Bagg Taber (1948). “The book of Stillmeadow”
  • Dog lovers are a good breed themselves.

    Friendship   Dog   Lovers  
    Gladys Bagg Taber (1948). “The book of Stillmeadow”
  • Traveling is all very well if you can get home at night. I would be willing to go around the world if I came back in time to light the candles and set the table for supper.

    Home   Night   Light  
  • Well, any love makes us vulnerable. Whatever we love will give the gift of pain somewhere along the road. But who would live sealed in spiritual cellophane just to keep from ever being hurt? There are a few people like that. I'm sorry for them. I think they are as good as dead.

    Spiritual   Hurt   Sorry  
  • June in New England is like a lover's dream made tangible.

    Dream   June   Tangible  
    Gladys Bagg Taber (1948). “The book of Stillmeadow”
  • The curious thing about fishing is you never want to go home. If you catch something, you can't stop. If you don't catch anything, you hate to leave in case something might bite.

    Hate   Home   Fishing  
    Gladys Bagg Taber (1948). “The book of Stillmeadow”
  • As long as you have a window, life is exciting.

    Long   Life Is   Window  
  • A good recipe for a human reducing breakfast is a lot of good things to eat, and three spaniels and two cats to eat with.

    Cat   Two   Three  
  • Perhaps, after all, our best thoughts come when we are alone. It is good to listen, not to voices but to the wind blowing, to the brook running cool over polished stones, to bees drowsy with the weight of pollen. If we attend to the music of the earth, we reach serenity. And then, in some unexplained way, we share it with others.

  • Father was the most unreconciled taxpayer I ever knew.

  • I resolve to be more patient, less selfish, cherish my friends, and in my small way help whoever needs help. I cannot conceivably influence the world's destiny, but I can make my own life more worthwhile. I can give some help to some people; that is not vital to all the world's problems and yet, I think if everyone did just that, we might see quite a world in our time!

  • The real evidence of growing older is that things level off in importance.

    Real   Age   Growing  
    Gladys Bagg Taber (1948). “The book of Stillmeadow”
  • November wind has a sound different from any other. It is easy to imagine the cave of the winds in some mythical Northland where the winds are born and the gods send them out to conquer the quiet air.

    Air   Wind   Sound  
  • But housekeeping is fun. It is one job where you enjoy the results right along as you work. You may work all day washing and ironing, but at night you have the delicious feeling of sunny clean sheets and airy pillows to lie on. If you clean, you sit down at nightfall with the house shining and faintly smelling of wax, all yours to enjoy right then and there. And if you cook—that creation you lift from the oven goes right to the table.

    Jobs   Fun   Lying  
  • What would happen if all the populations on the planet simply refused to fight human beings they did not even know?

  • We need time to dream, time to remember, and time to reach the infinite. Time to be.

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