Clarrie Cox Quotes & Sayings

It is easy to jump out of the village, move to the cities, and spend your time poking fun at the little places we hail from and their routine ways, but deep down inside you know that's where the real people are, the truly decent souls, and you fight and fight to deny it, until you need them so bad it hurts. p.223
Brendan ... I get it! — Brendan Cowell

They don't think much o'laughter, the rich,' Clarrie observed.
'Nor the powerful, for that matter. When did a teacher ever encourage her class to laugh?
When a maid giggles, chances are she'll get give the order of the boot.
And do you know why? Laughter puts folk down, that's why.
It makes the pompous look foolish and the proud trip and fall. — Katie Flynn

The world would be a better place if everyone traveled.
~Miss Clarrie — Donna Jo Napoli

The world is: fun, and familiar, and healthful, and unbelievably refreshing, and lovely. And it is the theater of the spiritual; it is the multiform utterly obedient to a mystery. — Mary Oliver

You don't get a second chance to make a first impression. — Dale Quentin

Compensatory damages" refer to the amount of money required to put the injured person in the place he or she was in prior the injury. — J. Ryan Jones

People are scared to death of dying. I am the opposite. — Taylor Caldwell