Gladys Taber Quotes

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.

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

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 ...

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

Life is a process of discovery, of new perceptions.

Father was the most unreconciled taxpayer I ever knew.

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

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

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

Dog lovers are a good breed themselves.

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

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

Best of all are the decorations the grandchildren have made ~ fat little stars and rather crooked Santas, shaped out of dough and baked in the oven.

Cat lovers know that every cat is remarkable.

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

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

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

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

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

The begonia is an amazing plant ... it just keeps going along and blooming, and when cut back, it starts up again.

If I had Aladdin's lamp and the usual three wishes, the first would always be, 'Give me the first day of June.

Nothing makes a house cozier than cats.

There is a kind of immortality in every garden.

Christmas is a kindling of new fires.

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

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

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

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

April is a promise of what's to come.

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

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

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

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

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

Happiness is a thing of now.

I suppose I am a sparrow, a stay-at-home bird.

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.

As long as you have a window, life is exciting.

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