Irish Mammy Quotes & Sayings

So maybe he'd teach me, train me, and I would fall a little more in love with him every day and then he'd leave anyway. Or maybe not. Either way, I'd take it, though. I'd take him for as long as I could get him and worry about the rest when it came. — Christine O'Neil

I don't wear dresses and flowers in my hair and float around! — Victoria Legrand

There is one message children can never hear enough as they grow up, and adults should never forget as long as they live: To accomplish big things, you must first dream big dreams. — Mardy Grothe

With every other girl vying for his attention, why the heck would he notice a bookworm like me?" And — Cookie O'Gorman

My own life has had so many twists that I keep thinking I'll have one blessing that is not in disguise. — Ken Bruen

You can follow the religions where God is small,
or you can follow the religions where God is all. — Donald L. Hicks

I hold myself to a very high standard, and I hold my contributions to that same high standard. I will not accept any contributions that are illegal, inappropriate or tainted. — Kevin Shelley

I tell myself your spirits were down the day you wrote. You're fine and we're fine. I hope it's true. — Ann Brashares

That sand into which we bury ourselves in order not to see, is formed of words ... and it is true that words, their labyrinths, the exhausting immensity of their "possibles", in short their treachery, have something of quicksand about them. — Georges Bataille

Don't make me walk back without being beside you, holding your hand." He lowered one arm from my waist to draw my hand to his lips. "I've lived for two hundred years with only the
imagination of what it would be like to touch this," - he moved my hand over his mouth, kissing each knuckle - "to hold this ... "
When my breath became weak, he lowered it from his lips, but kept it firmly in his hand. "Please allow me to escort you back to the house? — Nicole Williams

I don't really see how I can keep being with you. Would you want to be with someone who just told you they could never love you? — Erin McCahan

Everyone wants to share what he or she has learned with someone who really cares. — Douglas Coupland

Darkness, thou first great parent of us all,
Thou art our great original! — Thomas Yalden

My wife, like many women, actually LIKES wrapping things. If she gives you a gift that requires batteries, she wraps the batteries separately, which to me is very close to being a symptom of mental illness. — Dave Barry