Sy Montgomery Quotes

But I'd rather look like you than be pretty," she told Anne sincerely. Anne laughed, sipped honey from the tribute, and cast away the sting.

All life lessons are not learned at college,'she thought. Life teaches them everywhere.

Anne laughed and sighed. She felt very old and mature and wise — which showed how young she was.

All pioneers are considered to be afflicted with moonstruck madness.

Don't you ever imagine things differently than what they are? Oh, Marilla, how much you miss.

When one great passion seizes possession of the soul all other feelings are crowded out.

It was three o'clock in the morning – the wisest and most accursed hour of the clock. But sometimes it sets us free.

Rebellion flamed up in her soul as the dark hours passed by – not because she had no future but because she had no past.

I've always held that early marriage is a sure indication of second-rate goods that had to be sold in a hurry." - Martin Harris

It takes all sorts of people to make a world, as I've often heard, but I think there are some who could be spared,' Anne told her reflection in the east gable mirror that night.

At seventeen dreams DO satisfy because you think the realities are waiting for you farther on.

It's good advice, but I expect it will be hard to follow; good advice is apt to be, I think.

Anne came dancing home in the purple winter twilight across the snowy places.

I know you're a fool, Jim Hardy, but for heaven's sake pretend you're not for five minutes.

Isn't it terrible the way some unworthy folks are loved, while others that deserve it far more, you'd think, never get much affection?

You mayn't get the things themselves; but nothing can prevent you from having the fun of looking forward to them.

Anne: "But have you ever noticed one encouraging thing about me, Marilla? I never make the same mistake twice". Marilla: "I don't know as that's much benefit when you're always making new ones".

But was anything in life, Anne asked herself wearily, like one's imagination of it?

Anne was always glad in the happiness of her friends; but it is sometimes a little lonely to be surrounded everywhere by happiness that is not your own.

You are the only person who loves me in the world," said Elizabeth. "When you talk to me I smell violets.

Don't be ridiculous, please.' The most insulting words in the world!

Thank goodness, we can choose our friends. We have to take our relatives as they are, and be thankful.

Washington, one feels in Washington, is the spoiled child of the republic.

I love men - everything about them: the way they look, the way they smell, the way they feel. I love their minds.

When I get it into my head that I want to do something, I do it.

You can make all the birth plans in the world, but at the end of the day - go with the flow.

There is nothing that anyone can say to prepare you for childbirth. Each woman's experience is so different; you never know how it will be for you!

I got expelled from every school I went to in Sydney.

Every rule should be broken at least one time.

I always try to make things fun.

When it comes to guys, make sure you are treated like a princess, always.

Women are supposed to want to settle down and have a family. That's not for me.

When you spend seven years with a group of people and suddenly you're not together, it's very jarring.

I talk about being Australian a lot.

Exercise makes me a better parent. I'm calmer and happier.

Maybe I'm secretly in my soul a method actor.

I'm the girliest girl you'll ever meet.

Hollywood's full of transients. Everybody comes from somewhere else.

I should have been a stuntwoman.

A moment is a mighty thing Beyond the soul's imagination; For in it, though we trace it not, How much there crowds of varied lot How much of life, life cannot see, Darts onward to eternity!

How sublime Upon a time-blanch’d cliff to muse, and, while The eagle glories in a sea of air, To mingle with the scene around! - Survey The sun-warm heaven.

The soul aspiring pants its source to mount,As streams meander level with their fount.

And now, Though haply mellow'd by correcting time, I thank thee, Heaven! that the bereaving world Hath not diminish'd the subliming hopes Of youth, in manhood's more imposing cares.

A universal beauty clothes the world, And one heart seems to beat for all mankind!

How oft, - be witness, Guardian of our days!... The sky besprinkled o'er with rainbow hues, As if angelic wings had wanton'd there.

And Thou, vast Ocean! on whose awful face Time’s iron feet can print no ruin-trace, By breezes lull’d, or by the storm-blasts driv’n, Thy majesty uplifts the mind to heaven.

I've never really been one to stop and smell the roses.

I don't like things to feel forced. I just let it flow, if it's not flowing I just wait a bit in the studio or I go home.

Something that I can say, "I set out to do this, however many years ago, and now I did it." That's a new thing of mine too, is just speaking things into existence.

Hip-Hop itself, the culture, the way that it's going you could always see the effect that it has on basketball.