Maria von Trapp Quotes

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Jukeboxes, radio and television, going from dawn to dusk, help spread the poison of synthetic, artificial, rhythmical noise.

Maria von Trapp
Christianity nowadays is like a big household where many cousins live under the same roof. They all belong to the same clan, but at times they have very different ideas about how to run their family affairs.

Maria von Trapp
It starts as an inflection of the voice, a question asked in a certain tone and not answered with 'no'; a prolonged little silence, a twinkle in the eye, a long-drawen 'w-e-e-ell — I don't know.' These are the fine roots of the tree whose poisonous fruits are gossip and slander.

Maria von Trapp
How dry eyes can get when they are not allowed to cry!

Maria von Trapp
It doesn't start as a story; it starts as an inflection of the voice, a question asked in a certain tone and not answered with no ; a prolonged little silence, a twinkle in the eye, a long-drawn w-e-e-ell—I don't know. These are the fine roots of the tree whose poisonous fruits are gossip and slander.

Maria von Trapp
But if one doesn't have a character like Abraham Lincoln or Joan of Arc, a diet simply disintegrates into eating exactly what you want to eat, but with a bad conscience.

Maria von Trapp
When you are a child of the mountains yourself, you really belong to them. You need them. They become the faithful guardians of your life. If you cannot dwell on their lofty heights all your life, if you are in trouble, you want at least to look at them.

Maria von Trapp
The grief of a child is always terrible. It is bottomless, without hope. A child has no past and no future. It just lives in the present moment - wholeheartedly. If the present moment spells disaster, the child suffers it with his whole heart, his whole soul, his whole strength, his whole little being.

Maria von Trapp
The sun has set in your life; it is getting cold. The hundreds of people around you cannot console you for the loss of the one.

Maria von Trapp
It will be very interesting one day to follow the pattern of our life as it is spread out like a beautiful tapestry. As long as we live here we see only the reverse side of the weaving, and very often the pattern, with its threads running wildly, doesn't seem to make sense. Some day, however, we shall understand. In looking back over the years we can discover how a red thread goes through the pattern of our life: the Will of God.

Maria von Trapp
I was slowly taking on the dimensions of a chest of drawers.

Maria von Trapp