Sy Montgomery Quotes

There must be a limit to the mistakes one person can make, and when I get to the end of them, then I'll be through with them. That's a comforting thought

You'd find it easier to be bad than good if you had red hair," said Anne reproachfully. "People who haven't red hair don't know what trouble is.

You'd find it easier to be bad than good if you had red hair." — Anne Shirley

I found my life's calling when you spoke my name.

Leadership is the art of creating a working climate that inspires others to achieve extraordinary goals and levels of performance.

The difficulty with pragmatic arguments for a religion is that truths do not always "work", and beliefs that "work" are by no means always true.

Nasturtiums, who colored you, you wonderful, glowing things? You must have been fashioned out of summer sunsets.

Dogs want only love but cats demand worship.

I believe flowers have souls. I have known roses that I expect to meet in heaven.

The world is always young again for just a few moments at the dawn.

It is never quite safe to think we have done with life. When we imagine we have finished our story fate has a trick of turning the page and showing us yet another chapter.

A plate of apples, an open fire, and a jolly good book are a fair substitute for heaven.

The solitary monk who shook the world From pagan slumber, when the gospel trump Thunder' d its challenge from his dauntless lips In peals of truth.

I don't know which is worse - to have somebody you DON'T like ask you to marry him or NOT have some one you DO like. Both are rather unpleasant.

You were never poor as long as you had something to love.

Those who can soar to the highest heights can also plunge to the deepest depths and the natures which enjoy most keenly are those which also suffer most sharply.

A child that has a quick temper, just blaze up and cool down, ain't never likely to be sly or deceitful.

Perhaps. . .love unfolded naturally out of a beautiful friendship, as a golden-hearted rose slipping from its green sheath.

With it all independent I feel like we're doing it one person at a time turning people into believers one person at a time. Just that good old-fashioned grind, get out there, touch the people.

Real dudes move in silence...like a mute drivin a new hybrid.

She looked like a head-on collision between a fashion plate and a nightmare.

Desire grows by what it feeds on.

After all, what could you expect from a pig but a grunt?

Why did dusk and fir-scent and the afterglow of autumnal sunsets make people say absurd things?

We are both going to pray that we may live together all our lives and die the same day.

Oh", she thought, "how horrible it is that people have to grow up-and marry-and change!

Do you know what I think Mayflowers are, Marilla? I think they must be the souls of the flowers that died last summer, and this is their heaven.

Mrs. Lynde says, 'Blessed are they who expect nothing for they shall not be disappointed.

It is ever so much easier to be good if your clothes are fashionable.

Oh, of course there's a risk in marrying anybody, but, when it's all said and done, there's many a worse thing than a husband.

Some nights are like honey - and some like wine - and some like wormwood.

Mrs. Spencer said it was wicked of me to talk like that, but I didn’t mean to be wicked. It’s so easy to be wicked without knowing it, isn’t it?

But if you call me Anne, please call me Anne with an 'e'.

Most things are predestined, but some are just darn sheer luck, said Roaring Abel.

I'm not a bit changed - not really. I'm only just pruned down and branched out. The real me - back here - is just the same.

This anonymous clan of slack-jawed troglodytes has cost me the election, and yet if I were to have them killed, I would be the one to go to jail. That's democracy for you.

Added to the difficulty of learning to speak the language was the greater difficulty of finding terms to express the ideas which the missionary had come halfway round the world to convey.

Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home.

Joys too exquisite to last, And yet more exquisite when past.

Baptize the nations! far and nigh,The triumphs of the cross recordThe name of Jesus glorify,Till every people call Him Lord.

It will come sometime. Some beautiful morning she will just wake up and find it is Tomorrow. Not Today but Tomorrow. And then things will happen ... wonderful things.

It's such an interesting world. It wouldn't be half so interesting if we knew all about everything, would it?

Heretics are wicked, but they're mighty int'resting. It's jest that they've got sorter lost looking for God, being under the impression that He's hard to find - which He ain't never.

We ought always to try to influence others for good.

There is a book of Revelation in every one's life, as there is in the Bible.

A cold in the head in June is an immoral thing.

There are so many unpleasant things in the world already that there is no use in imagining any more.

The world calls them its singers and poets and artists and storytellers; but they are just people who have never forgotten the way to fairyland.

Night is beautiful when you are happy--comforting when you are in grief--terrible when you are lonely and unhappy.

Isn't it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about? It just makes me feel glad to be alive-it's such an interesting world.