Nancy E. Turner Quotes

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How fragile our lives are anyway. How quickly things can change forever.

Nancy E. Turner
Getting out of bed is a good way to leave your troubles behind.

Nancy E. Turner
The best thing a girl can be is a good wife and mother. It is a girl's highest calling. I hope I am ready.

Nancy E. Turner
My life feels like a book left out on the porch, and the wind blows the pages faster and faster, turning always toward a new chapter faster than I can stop to read it.

Nancy E. Turner
Taking up marriage is a good excuse for taking up cursing, I think.

Nancy E. Turner
Mama told me to make a special point to remember the best times of my life. There are so many hard things to live through, and latching on to the good things will give you strength to endure, she says. So I must remember this day. It is beautiful and this seems like the best time to live and the best place

Nancy E. Turner
I have a deep-down belief that there are folks in the world who are good through and through, and others who came in mean and will go out mean. It's like coffee. Once it's roasted, it all looks brown. Until you pour hot water on it and see what comes out. Folks get into hot water, you see what comes out.

Nancy E. Turner
What a pure blessing it was to have a bath in a tub alone in a room where all you had to do was pump the water, not tote buckets. Then all you had to do was pull out the cork, not tote more buckets to the back porch—that kind of thing is easy to take lightly until you don't have it.

Nancy E. Turner