Ducky Petrie Quotes & Sayings

Your life is what your thoughts make it. — Confucius

Focus on what makes you happy, and do what gives meaning to your life — Barry Schwartz

At the end of the day, there are people out there that want to see you fail. — Victor Cruz

The firefly only shines when on the wing, So it is with us
when we stop, we darken. — Jan Karon

The biggest mistake I made is the one that most of us make while doing this. I did not live in the moment enough. This is particularly clear now that the moment is gone, captured only in photographs. There is one picture of the three on them sitting in the grass on a quilt in the shadow of the swing set on a summer day, ages 6, 4, and 1. And I wish I could remember what we ate, and what we talked about, and how they sounded, and how they looked when they slept that night. I wish I had not been in a hurry to get on to the next things: dinner, bath, book, bed. I wish I had treasured the doing a little more and the getting it done a little less. — Anna Quindlen

The higher the monkey climbs, the more he shows his ass. — Thomas Watson Jr.

No one ever judges their own self. — James Wolk

Judge: Why don't you answer him?
Curly: He's tawkin' pig Latin! I dunno what he's sayin'!
Judge: He's asking you if you swear ... !
Curly: [cuts the judge off] No, but I know all the woid — The Three Stooges

When I write, my goal is to delve deeply enough into the human experience to find a sort of universality. Once you dig down underneath surface differences, we are all human beings. And all human beings want essentially the same things at our core. We want to love and be loved. We want to be safe. We want our loved ones to be safe. — Catherine Ryan Hyde

Clearly our greatest need is not more regulations in order to merit salvation. — David Platt

Since the atoms are indestructible, the disintegration of human body after death should be actually considered as the dispersion of the separate filaments (except probably those forming the bones) in all different directions. — George Gamow

The wife ought to have the first child and the husband the second, then there wouldn't ever be any more. — Flora Thompson