Mabey Family Ranch Quotes & Sayings

There is goodness as well as greatness in simplicity, not in wealth. — Mahatma Gandhi

Best friends always know when the other's lying. — Wendy Mass

If you dissect a bird / to diagram the tongue, / you'll cut the chord / articulating song. — Sylvia Plath

The problem is that we don't believe that we are much alike as we are. Whites and blacks, Catholic and Protestants, men and women. If we saw each other as more alike, we might be very eager to join in one human family in this world, and to care about that family the way we care about our own. — Mitch Albom

All normal human beings have soi-disant mixed-up glands. The race is divided into two parts: those who know this and those who do not. — Robert A. Heinlein

There is nothing illegal in keeping up a tomb; on the contrary, it is a very laudable thing to do. — Ryan Lindley

During the school holidays he would approach the bookcase in the pink room and stand before it, his hand alighting on this or that volume with the arbitrariness of a moth, half deciding on something before sliding it back in place and moving on, as though experimenting with the keys of a piano, all briefly opened books eager to engage his eye, each flickeringly glimpsed paragraph enticing him hurriedly with its secret, and having made his choice he would drift through the house in search of the coolest spot to read through the long summer afternoons that had a touch of eternity to them, altering the arrangement of his limbs as much for comfort as for fear that his undisturbed shadows would leave a stain on the wall. — Nadeem Aslam

The longer we try to hold on to each other, the more it will hurt when we finally fall apart. — Ellen Hopkins

Each morning we awaken to the light and the invitation to a new day in the world of time; each night we surrender to the dark to be taken to play in the world of dreams where time is no more. At birth we were awakened and emerged to become visible in the world. At death we will surrender again to the dark to become invisible. Awakening and surrender: they frame each day and each life; between them the journey where anything can happen, the beauty and the frailty. — John O'Donohue