Sy Montgomery Quotes

Manual Lynn? Find out what that is. He wrote every single word in the play, and then everyone just rapped their parts. Imagine if like, Eminem wrote a play, that's what it sounded like to me.

I'm not saying my teachers should have rapped my lessons or anything, but I feel if I had made more of a connection to them I would have gotten more out of school.

I feel like I'm at a point in my career where I'm looking for something else to sink my teeth into that's interesting to me, that I can do that I can feel like I'm turning another corner.

My big brother used to come home drunk and he'd clash with my dad and I just didn't want that.

I feel bad for these preachers man, they're on their jets doing all of that stuff because there's a lot of people living hell on earth.

Anne laughed."I don't want sunbursts or marble halls, I just want you.

You see, " she concluded miserably, "when I can call like that to him across space--I belong to him. He doesn't love me--he never will--but I belong to him.

Isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?

Well, we all make mistakes, dear, so just put it behind you. We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.

When you've learned to laugh at the things that should be laughed at, and not to laugh at those that shouldn't, you've got wisdom and understanding.

The gods, so says the old superstition, do not like to behold too happy mortals. It is certain, at least, that some human beings do not.

Well, I don't want to be anyone but myself, even if I go uncomforted by diamonds all my life, ' declared Anne. 'I'm quite content to be Anne of Green Gables, with my string of pearl beads.

We mustn't let next week rob us of this week's joy.

Despair is a free man—hope isa slave.

The p'int of good writing is to know when to stop.

Then Diana puts too many murders into [her stories]. She says most of the time she doesn’t know what to do with the people so she kills them off to get rid of them.

Reading is a powerful force that illuminates the darkness. Unfortunately, few have the courage to walk against the world in search of knowledge that transforms reality.

Museum education has the power and the responsibility to do the challenging inner work of tackling tough topics and turning them into teachable moments.

Tough topics are only tough for those who don't want to approach conversation, who don't like problematizing the status quo and nuancing the narrative.

Education is the lifeblood of museums.

Aunt Elizabeth said, 'Do you expect to attend many balls, if I may ask?' and I said, 'Yes, when I am rich and famous.' and Aunt Elizabeth said, 'Yes, when the moon is made of green cheese.

Oh, this is the most TRAGICAL thing that ever happened to me!

I never hear about dear Mike. I wrote Ellen Greene and asked about him and she replyed and never mentioned Mike but told me all about her roomatism. As if I cared about her roomatism.

I hate to lend a book I love…it never seems quite the same when it comes back to me…

Blessings be the inventor of the alphabet, pen and printing press! Life would be--to me in all events--a terrible thing without books.

Fear is more pain than is the pain it fears

True friends are always together in spirit. (Anne Shirley)

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

People who are different from other people are always called peculiar, ' said Anne.

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.

Listen to the trees talking in their sleep, ' she whispered, as he lifted her to the ground. 'What nice dreams they must have!

Everybody has. It wouldn't do for us to have all our dreams fulfilled. We would be as good as dead if we had nothing left to dream about.

That's all the freedom we can hope for - the freedom to choose our prison.

All dreams of empire end because day breaks in the hearts of the slaves used to build it.

Changes come all the time. Just as soon as things get really nice they change, ' she said with a sigh.

Changes ain't totally pleasant but they're excellent things... Two years is about long enough for things to stay exactly the same. If they stayed put any longer they might grow mossy.

Secrets are generally terrible. Beauty is not hidden--only ugliness and deformity.

Not lovelier. But a different kind of loveliness. There are so many kinds of loveliness.

I imagine music sitting in a chair across from me saying "and how does that make you feel?".

I have made up my mind that I will never marry. I shall be wedded to my art.

I would never have started this trip if I had known how tough it was, but I couldn't and wouldn't quit.

Oh, sometimes I think it is of no use to make friends. They only go out of your life after a while and leave a hurt that is worse than the emptiness before they came.

A woman cannot ever be sure of not being married till she is buried, Mrs. Doctor, dear, and meanwhile I will make a batch of cherry pies.

Don't be fretting...about me marrying. Marrying's a trouble and not marrying's a trouble and I sticks to the trouble I knows.

I'm afraid concerts spoil people for everyday life.

I am getting by doing just the bare minimum and it takes up so many hours of my waking day.

The partnership between nurses and families is based on mutual trust, and defining the boundaries and rules clearly will help everyone involved, especially your child.

You've all been so sure that life is good that I've never been able to disbelieve it. Never will be able to.

A house from which nobody ever went away without feeling better in some way. A house in which there was always laughter.

An informed parent or caregiver becomes empowered, and empowerment can lead to the best care for our children.