Charlotte Gray Quotes & Sayings

People meeting for the first time suddenly relax if they find they both have cats. And plunge into anecdote. — Charlotte Gray

All that I am my mother made me. - John Quincy Adams. Children and mothers never truly part ... — Charlotte Gray

A dog desires affection more than its dinner. Well - almost. — Charlotte Gray

Friendships fail some years,
blight twists the leaves and the crop is bitter.
Frost bites or sudden fire devours:
but the root lies sound and waits for better weather or a storm of sleet to scour the branches.
Then we shall see another spring:
a flare of green flame and flowers burning to fruit along the boughs. — Charlotte Gray

After scolding one's cat one looks into its face and is seized by the ugly suspicion that it understood every word. And has filed it for reference. — Charlotte Gray

Becoming a mother makes you the mother of all children. From now on each wounded, abandoned, frightened child is yours. You live in the suffering mothers of every race and creed and weep with them. You long to comfort all who are desolate. — Charlotte Gray

Children and mothers never truly part
Bound in the beating of each other's hearts. — Charlotte Gray

I will protect you until you are grown and then I will let you fly free, but loving you, that is for always. — Charlotte Gray

Any cat that misses a mouse pretends it was aiming for the dead leaf. — Charlotte Gray

Human beings who leave behind them no great achievements, but only a series of small kindnesses, have not had wasted lives — Charlotte Gray

With a sister, one can never fear that success will go to one's head. — Charlotte Gray

We may look old and wise to the outside world. But to each other, we are still in junior school. — Charlotte Gray

Success is not fame or money or the power to bewitch. it is to have created something valuable from your own individuality and skill a garden, an embroidery, a painting, a cake, a life. — Charlotte Gray

A bear remains a bear - even when most of him has fallen off or worn away. — Charlotte Gray

Music is the voice of all humanity, of whatever time or place. In its presence, we are one. — Charlotte Gray

You can kid the world, but not your sister. — Charlotte Gray

In the welter of statistics about selected ethnic origins (singular or multiple) in the last census, one finding was often overlooked. Of the 25,309,330 people living in Canada in 1986, only 69,065 declared themselves as Canadians. — Charlotte Gray

Wake in the deepest dark of night and hear the driving rain. Reach out a hand and take a paw and go to sleep again. — Charlotte Gray

A dog trusts deeply and so is easily betrayed. — Charlotte Gray

Small child once you were a hope, a dream. Now you are a reality. Changing all that is to come. A love to hold our hearts forever. — Charlotte Gray