Barbara Holland - Years Quotes

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The United States government, in figuring our gross national product, defines 'durable goods' as anything that will last three years.

Barbara Holland

'Are you seeing a psychiatrist?' as a conversation opener would nowadays earn you a punch in the nose, but for fifty years it was a compliment. It meant, 'One can plainly see you are sensitive, intense, and interesting, and therefore neurotic.' Only the dullest of clods trudged around without a neurosis.

Barbara Holland

We're a shifty, sliding population.... What we refer to as 'home' may be a place we haven't seen in years; a place where there's no one left who knows our name.

Barbara Holland

Last summer, a man in one of the villages up the road sold the house in which he'd been born and lived for eighty-one years, and bought and moved into the house next door. A friend of mine asked him why. The fellow said, poker-faced, 'I reckon it's just the gypsy in me.'

Barbara Holland

Dogwoods are great optimists. Daffodils wait and see, crouching firmly underground just in case spring doesn't come this year, but dogwoods have faith.

Barbara Holland