Gladys Taber Quotes

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Catching something is purely a by-product of our fishing. It is the act of fishing that wipes away all grief, lightens all worry, dissolves fear and anxiety.

Gladys Taber
Long cold nights mark November's return, grey rains fall, wind walks in the bronze oak leaves.

Gladys Taber
History records the large events or the general condition of society, but only an individual can put down the way of life in a small town.

Gladys Taber
I cannot imagine a cat in an Obedience ring, running around in the hot sun and doing things on command. For it would not make sense. Whereas a dog is tolerant of your not making sense and only wants to fix things so you are happy.

Gladys Taber
Pride may go before a fall, but jealousy goes before destruction.

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

Gladys Taber
I love both the way a dog looks up to me and a cat condescends to me.

Gladys Taber
When Father smiled, it was like the sun coming out, and spring and summer in your heart.

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

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The real evidence of growing older is that things level off in importance.... Days are no longer jagged peaks to climb; time is a meadow, and we move over it with level steps.

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My own recipe for world peace is a little bit of land for everyone

Gladys Taber
A house with no fireplace is a house without a heart.

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

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He ran up the beach, but that was natural for he never walked. Even in Commencement processions he was always gaining on the man ahead of him.

Gladys Taber
Nothing decorates a home like books. There they are, waiting to decorate the mind, too!

Gladys Taber
Most cats feel that bird-catching is their duty; the instinct goes back to prehistoric times. Amber keeps in practice by chasing moths.

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The curious thing about fishing is that 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.

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Faith is a curious thing, It must be renewed; it has its own spring.

Gladys Taber
June in New England is like a lover's dream made tangible.

Gladys Taber
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.

Gladys Taber
A cat is, by and large, sophisticated and complex, and capable of creating three-act plays around any single piece of action.

Gladys Taber
Almost all words do have color 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.

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

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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.

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I know of nothing to compare with the welcome a dog gives you when you come home.

Gladys Taber
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.

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

Gladys Taber
The tentacles of today reach out like an octopus to swallow yesterday.

Gladys Taber
Americans tend to believe they can do anything with or without any training or experience.

Gladys Taber