American Quotes

I firmly believe that our salvation depends on the poor.

Women think with their whole bodies and they see things as a whole more than men do.

As for ourselves, yes, we must be meek, bear injustice, malice, rash judgment. We must turn the other cheek, give up our cloak, go a second mile.

Love casts out fear, but we have to get over the fear in order to get close enough to love them.

Knitting is very conducive to thought. It is nice to knit a while, put down the needles, write a while, then take up the sock again.

I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions.

Food for the body is not enough. There must be food for the soul.

Wrinkles are hereditary. Parents get them from their children.

When I was a teeny little girl, I was in dancing school, and I sang.

Well I do find the beauty in animals. I find beauty everywhere. I find beauty in my garden.

The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it.

I've never met an animal I didn't like, and I can't say the same thing about people.

I've just always loved animals.

I'm tired of being thought of as Miss Goody Two-Shoes... the girl next door, Miss Happy-Go-Lucky.

I'm going to do as much as I can for the animal world, and I'll never stop.

I never retired.

I liked being married instead of the girl who's looking for a guy.

I like to sing love songs.

I like Michael Buble.

I had a wonderful family including my aunts, uncles and cousins but they've all gone to heaven.

I don't know if I want to get married again.

I don't even like parties.

Any girl can look glamorous... just stand there and look stupid.

Vulgarity begins when imagination succumbs to the explicit.

Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.

If it's true that men are such beasts, this must account for the fact that most women are animal lovers.

We talk of our mastery of nature, which sounds very grand; but the fact is we respectfully adapt ourselves, first, to her ways.

We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided.

Too many moralists begin with a dislike of reality.

There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing.