Librarian Retirement Quotes & Sayings

Soeur Marie Emelie"

Soeur Marie Emelie
is little and very old:
her eyes are onyx,
and her cheeks vermilion,
her apron wide and kind
and cobalt blue.

She comforts
generations and generations
of children,
who are
"new"
at the convent school.
When they are eight,
they are already up to her shoulder,
they grow up and go into the world,
she remains,
forever,
always incredibly old,
but incredibly never older...
She has an affinity with the hens,
When a hen dies,she sits down on a bench and cries,
she is the only grown-up, whose tears
are not frightening tears.
Children can weep without shame,
at her side...
Soeur Marie Emelie...
her apron as wide and kind
as skies on a summer day
and as clean and blue. — Caryll Houselander

I divide the world into learners and non-learners. — Benjamin Barber

Funny things happen to you in movies for silly reasons. — Michael Caine

I guess time flies when you're playing hockey every day and getting laid every night. — Sarina Bowen

Our voices, wrapping around each other's, entwining, and then tugging free, in the pitch black. — Rick Yancey

A lot of people don't think of my work as being all that funny, but I think it's hilarious! — Fred Tomaselli

Shea eyed him warily. "You aren't getting ready to bite me again, are you? I've got to tell you, there isn't a place on my body that isn't sore." She flashed him a wan smile. "Just out of curiosity, your rabies shots are up to date, aren't they? — Christine Feehan

Be a peacemaker but never at the expense of your character or God's standards. — Jim George

I believe that what it is I have been called to do will make itself known when I have made myself ready. — Jan Phillips

In the hospital, Jenny Fields felt she was making up for lost time; she was discovering that people weren't much more mysterious, or much more attractive, than clams. — John Irving

In golf, driving is a game of free-swinging muscle control, while putting is something like performing eye surgery and using a bread knife for a scalpel. — Tommy Bolt

Overcoming poverty is not a task of charity, it is an act of justice. Like Slavery and Apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings. Sometimes it falls on a generation to be great. YOU can be that great generation. Let your greatness blossom. — Nelson Mandela

I don't mind anyone asking me any questions, I've got nothing to hide. I like it to be as real as it is, that's what I call an interview. — Katie Price

There is no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one. — Jorge Luis Borges

When the last living thing Has died on account of us, How poetical it would be If Earth could say, In a voice floating up Perhaps From the floor Of the Grand Canyon, "It is done." People did not like it here. — Kurt Vonnegut