Pam Brown Quotes
A horse is the projection of peoples' dreams about themselves - strong, powerful, beautiful - and it has the capability of giving us escape from our mundane existence.
If your sister is in a tearing hurry to go out and cannot catch your eye, she's wearing your best sweater.
Dads are most ordinary men turned by love into heroes, adventurers, story-tellers, singers of songs.
An older sister is a friend and defender - a listener, conspirator, a counsellor and a sharer of delights. And sorrows too.
Human beings are drawn to cats because they are all we are not — self-contained, elegant in everything they do, relaxed, assured, glad of company, yet still possessing secret lives.
Cats can work out mathematically the exact place to sit that will cause most inconvenience.
Becoming a grandmother is wonderful. One moment you're just a mother. The next you are all-wise and prehistoric.
A horse can lend its rider the speed and strength he or she lacks - but the rider who is wise remembers it is no more then a loan.
Loss leaves us empty - but learn not to close your heart and mind in grief. Allow life to replenish you. When sorrow comes it seems impossible - but new joys wait to fill the void.
Always smile back at little children. To ignore them is to destroy their belief that the world is good.
We expect too much at Christmas. It's got to be magical. It's got to go right. Feasting. Fun. The perfect present. All that anticipation. Take it easy. Love's the thing. The rest is tinsel.
It's hard to be responsible, adult and sensible all the time. How good it is to have a sister whose heart is as young as your own.
A teddy bear does not depend upon mechanics to give him the semblance of life. He is loved - and therefore he lives.
Mothers are the pivot on which the family spins, Mothers are the pivot on which the world spins.
The trouble with sharing one's bed with cats is that they'd rather sleep on you than beside you.
A teddy bear is your childhood wrapped up in faded yellow fur, and as such, he commands affection long after he is out grown.
If there is a heaven, it's certain our animals are to be there. Their lives become so interwoven with our own, it would take more than an archangel to detangle them.
For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours.
Many a cat can only be lured in by switching off all the lights and keeping very still. Until the indignant cry of a cat-locked-out comes at the door.
It's hard to visualize the toys you had fifty years ago - all save bear. He's as clear as if he were sitting on the desk in front of you...of course...he probably is.
We have become a society where the artist is regarded as a self-indulgent superfluity, and the person who juggles stocks and shares is an essential part of the economy.
Medicines may be necessary. Flowers lift the heart. But your smile is the best restorative of all.
In a world gone bad, a bear - even a bear standing on its head - is a comforting, uncomplicated, dependable hunk of sanity.
However time or circumstances may come between mother and her child, their lives are interwoven forever.
For sheer excitement you can keep movie premieres and roller-coasters . An empty white canvas waiting to be filled. That's the thing.
Bears being sent through the mail should never be squashed up to make them fit. It gives them indigestion.
The work of a garden bears visible fruits-in a world where most of our labours seem suspiciously meaningless.
The child who ran weeping to you with a cut finger is now brought home, smiling gamely, with a broken collarbone and incredible contusions- 'it wasn't Jezebels fault, Dad.'
A cat likes to hear you calling him. He sits in a bush a yard from your shoes - and listens.
Brooks too wide for our leaping, hedges far to high. Loads too heavy for our moving, burdens too cumbersome for us to bear. Distances far beyond our journeying. The horse gave us mastery.
