Maureen Daly Quotes & Sayings

Some mules just seem to be born with the hee-haw habit. Back home we call those fellows 'Missouri Nightingales'. — Maureen Daly

A girl can't feel like a lady with a bottle of beer before her. — Maureen Daly

Growing up crowds your mind with new thoughts and new feelings so that you forget how you used to think and feel. — Maureen Daly

A sudden thought struck me. Wouldn't it be odd if my mother got old! ... It is only natural that when your children are big you must be older but somehow I had never thought of its happening to my mother... What a peculiar thing to think of in the bright sunshine of the afternoon! — Maureen Daly

Talking about your home town is like talking about your own mother. — Maureen Daly

Growing up is like taking down the sides of your house and letting strangers walk in. — Maureen Daly

When I eat, everything tastes so good I can't get all the taste out of it; when I look at something-say, the lake-the waves are so green and the foam so white that it seems I can't look at it hard enough; there seems to be something there that I can't get at. And even when I'm with you, I can't seem to be with you...enough. — Maureen Daly

It is odd how one can feel like someone else early in the morning - bigger, cleaner, so much more alive. — Maureen Daly

Growing up is like taking down the walls of your house and letting strangers in. — Maureen Daly

It's funny how, having nice thoughts in your head, it is so pleasant to pull them all out and think them all over again. — Maureen Daly

Somehow, by holding hands you can carry on a conversation without talking. — Maureen Daly

Sergeant Missouri crouched close to the ground, pulling up his collar against the bitter, gusting winds. Show me, he thought tiredly, I'm from Missouri. — Maureen Daly

I wonder, I thought, what I am really thinking. Last week I would have known definitely but now everything seemed vague and evasive. — Maureen Daly

Looking up, Missouri saw a formation of low-flying P-47's on the horizon, heading up the coast from Naples...Sergeant Missouri laughed aloud. "They're sending us the Air Force, Chico, and we made it with a donkey," he said. — Maureen Daly