Malloy Quotes & Sayings

When I die
Give what's left of me away
To children
And old men that wait to die.

And if you need to cry,
Cry for your brother
Walking the street beside you
And when you need me,
Put your arms
Around anyone
And give to them
What you need to give to me.

I want to leave you something,
Something better
Than words
Or sounds.

Look for me
In the people I've known
Or loved,
And if you cannot give me away,
At least let me live in your eyes
And not on your mind.

You can love me most
By letting
Hands touch hands
By letting
Bodies touch bodies
And by letting go
Of children
That need to be free.

Love doesn't die,
People do.
So, when all that's left of me
Is love,
Give me away — Merrit Malloy

It's amazing how many people will care about you
if only you would care about them, and
It's even more remarkable
how many people will care about you anyway — Merrit Malloy

What a gigantic step it is not to move. — Merrit Malloy

As for restaurants, one of our favorites is the Silk Road next door to the Tibetan Choijin Lama Museum. It's a very exotic setting. The western food there is pretty good. We also liked the Hazara Restaurant for its Indian food, and the Mongolian Barbecue restaurant. All are downtown. — Ruth Lor Malloy

Whenever people say, 'You should be president,' I say, 'I thought you liked me.' Listen, I thought being mayor of Stamford was a wonderful job. Being governor of a state for a period of time is a wonderful job, and I'm not sure I'm at all attracted to Washington. — Dannel Malloy

I get so used to saying what I think people want to hear, I forget they might just want the truth sometimes. — Matt Malloy

Being bombastic for the sake of being bombastic has just never been my take on the world. — Dannel Malloy

There are no illegitimate babies. — Merrit Malloy

Don't ever tell a story like it wasn't about you. — Merrit Malloy

The little bit you and me might change the world," Malloy smiled, "it wouldnt show up until a hundred years after we were dead. We'd never see it."
"But it'd be there. — James Jones

Every morning I wake up and thank God that I don't believe in him. — Mike Malloy

Simply because you're a Democrat doesn't mean you can't speak to these issues in language that appeals to voters, particularly independent voters. — Dannel Malloy

I am a person of faith who believes deeply in the right to exercise religious beliefs. — Dannel Malloy

I can't write things. I'm embarrassed all the time about that, particularly if people don't know that about me. — Dannel Malloy

The Thief who Couldn't Get Away
I knew a man who didn't come to see his children for years ...
how inept a thief he was to rob from himself like that
... Ironically, his punishment for this
was that his children loved him anyway ... and
it broke his heart — Merrit Malloy

I met them in Minneapolis when the Society hosted a brunch for this year's winners and gave us these oversized checks they had us pose with. The picture made the front page of the Le Sueur News Herald.
It was really embarrassing because I'm smiling with my eyes shut.
And if that wasn't bad enough, Russ made a huge copy of the photo, replacing the background with a highway scene and the check I was holding with a sign that said NEED RIDE TO STAR TREK CONVENTION. — Brian Malloy

Religious freedom is already protected in the United States. It's in our Constitution. It's in most state constitutions. — Dannel Malloy

A state that houses the NCAA headquarters. Quite frankly, if Indiana doesn't say that they're going to ban discrimination based on sexual orientation, the NCAA needs to move out of Indiana. — Dannel Malloy

No one is confused about what a Democrat is in a presidential election. In every election other than a presidential election, our voters are confused. We've given out too many different messages. — Dannel Malloy

Alice Malloy had dark, stringy hair, and even her husband, who loved her more than he knew, was sometimes reminded by her lean face of a tenement doorway on a rainy day, for her countenance was long, vacant, and weakly lighted, a passage for the gentle transports and miseries of the poor. — John Cheever

A college degree is not a sign that one is a finished product but an indication a person is prepared for life. — Edward Malloy

The halls are full of kids, scrawny ones and fat ones, cool ones and uncool ones, freaks and jocks, cheerleaders and dogs, burnouts and nerds. It's like Berlin, divided, except there are more walls in this city, and they're better guarded. — Brian Malloy

Connecticut would not be Connecticut if we cut $3.5 billion out of the budget. We are a strong, generous, hopeful people. We'd be taking $800 million out of education. You can't do that in this state. — Dannel Malloy

What if you're chicken? What if you're more chicken than chicken soup?" Malloy said.
Kit gave him a long, hard look. "Then you pretend you're not. You pretend so hard it comes true. — Tania Unsworth

We look for God as though he were not already here. — Merrit Malloy

No state, as a matter of public policy, should turn back the clock on progress by, in effect, legalizing and relitigating the same types of discriminatory laws and debates that took America centuries to overcome. — Dannel Malloy

Afghanistan - where empires go to die. — Mike Malloy

There are some people
who would rather be right than happy,
as though making a point
was more fun than having a good time
These are the people
who will risk their lives to get the last laugh
even when it isn't funny — Merrit Malloy

The early development of the human brain is extremely important for setting the table, if you will, for potential future accomplishment. — Dannel Malloy

Love is proud of itself. It leaks out of us even with the tightest security. — Merrit Malloy

I don't mind the rich getting richer, but the poor shouldn't be getting poorer, and there should be more people moving into the middle class. — Dannel Malloy

I was diagnosed as mentally retarded as late as the fourth grade. — Dannel Malloy

If you're nice, if you like yourself, if you treat other people well, you're going to be successful. I guarantee it. — Dannel Malloy

Compromise is simply changing the question to fit the answer. — Merrit Malloy

Was that all it took?"
"What?" she asked, completely bewildered.
"To shut you up," he clarified with a definite grin this time. "All it took was agreeing with you."
She glared at him. "If you'd ever tried agreeing with me before, you'd have known that," she snapped.
"I had to wait until you were right about something," he replied, then hurried to open the door before she could smack him, which she dearly wanted to do. — Victoria Thompson

But there's this thing in her voice, like what my mom called "doublespeak." Saying one thing and meaning another. Aunt Nora told me it was leftover from English rule. She said, "That's the only good thing to ever come of colonialism, Kevin. The Irish can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you look forward to the trip. — Brian Malloy

What we want to do is guarantee all 4-year-old children in the City of Stamford a prekindergarten experience regardless of their financial circumstances. — Dannel Malloy

We have to expose Republicans for the frauds that they are when it comes to what they want to do for working men and women. — Dannel Malloy

Democrats tend to think of elections as cycles. Republicans don't: It's ongoing and constant. — Dannel Malloy

What I'm hoping to do is see Democrats get elected. That's what I'm trying to contribute to. — Dannel Malloy

I want to know why you don't like me, Malloy. I like you, even if you do hit people."
He sighed. "I never said I didn't like you, Mrs. Brandt."
Reasonable again. She wanted to smack him. "And why don't you ever call me Sarah? You think I'm beautiful, but you never call me Sarah."
He muttered something she didn't understand.
"You do think I'm beautiful," she insisted. "You said so!"
"Yes, I do," he said grudgingly. "And I do like you, Sarah. Now let's talk about something else, because you're going to be very embarrassed if you remember any of this conversation tomorrow. — Victoria Thompson

then Malloy took the gun away from whoever did it. — Raymond Chandler

If a Democrat took Republicans on rudely, they wouldn't be elevated in the Democratic Party. There's a different standard. We're supposed to be polite to people. — Dannel Malloy

And I still want to know why you hit that man in front of me. You wanted me to see it, didn't you?"
"Why would I want you to see it?"
Sarah was getting very annoyed with him. He usually wasn't this dense. "Because you wanted me to think badly of you, and I demand to know why!"
"You do, do you?" he said in a very odd tone.
"Yes, I do, and I'm not getting out of this cab until you tell me!"
"I don't want to tell you."
"Then what do you want?"
She knew he was looking at her, although she doubted he could see very much in the darkness. "I want to show you," he said. — Victoria Thompson

I was not going to balance the budgets on the backs of communities. — Dannel Malloy

I move impatiently
towards a lover
I haven't met — Merrit Malloy

Did you take a vow of poverty or something?"
"This is a housedress, Malloy," she said, indignant again. "I was cleaning when you came. I gave my other clothes away because I got some new ones. From my mother."
"Did your mother take a vow of poverty? — Victoria Thompson

I'm not sure that some governors just don't want to lay off people for the sake of laying off people and being able to say they did. — Dan Malloy

We found that Central Americans and Hispanics are somewhat reluctant to send their children off to school as early as Anglo-Americans born in this country. There are some cultural differences. — Dannel Malloy

The truth isn't what we say, it's how we feel when we say it. — Merrit Malloy

You won't further the cause of human rights by walking away with your morals intact. Change is about getting your hand dirty. — Brian Malloy

If we stand idly by while states legalize bigotry, we are responsible for allowing it to happen. — Dannel Malloy

She thought men were saviors ...
... And she looked for more in them than what they were ...
Only to rescue herself from those she wished would rescue her ...
And isn't that the most tragic lie ...
The lie where we tell what we wished were true and believe it ... ?
She had an artificial memory, a prosthesis to a past that never was ...
She was like a party that no one ever went to ...
Like a cure ... without a disease ...
And isn't that the greatest fear of all ... to be ready with the answers
to questions that no one asks anymore? — Merrit Malloy

You can't separate me from my upbringing as a child overcoming learning disabilities and having to make my way through that. — Dannel Malloy

Indiana houses the home offices of most fraternities and sororities in the country. If Indiana doesn't pass a law that guarantees people that they'll be free of discrimination, those fraternities and sororities need to move out of Indiana. — Dannel Malloy

That One Man (from The People Who Didn't Say Goodbye)
There is always that one man
who you can't avoid
that one face that becomes the only
representative of
Heaven. — Merrit Malloy

What we might consider is how we are good rather than how good we are. — Merrit Malloy

Letting people be okay without us is how we get to be okay without them. — Merrit Malloy

Everything we say about other people is really about ourselves. — Merrit Malloy

If you look at suburban education in New Jersey and New York, it's pretty strong, intact, doing a pretty good job. You cap taxes for those communities, can we reasonably predict it's going to be as strong 20 years from now? — Dan Malloy

Codifying discrimination in our laws should be something we read about in American history, not on the front pages of today's American newspapers and magazines. — Dannel Malloy

I have to tell you, I'll be right up front about it: I'm the governor of the state of Connecticut, and I can't write anything well. — Dannel Malloy

And I choose to be alone
Rather than wrapped in arms I could never need. — Merrit Malloy

One of the first things we have to let go of is not being able to let go of anybody. — Merrit Malloy

The Long Way Home
Why is it when people feel they are losing each other they always leave each other?
Why do people walk away from their house when all they have to do to get home is turn around? — Merrit Malloy

We grow to deserve what we need to believe ...
Since I've known you
I've been careful not to pray out loud
Wishes have a way of coming true when you least expect ... — Merrit Malloy

If you are with someone you love
Tell them. — Merrit Malloy

There's a difference between expanding someone's potential and expanding their actual performance. Performance may measure other things, whether one's culture supports education, other socio-economic factors. — Dannel Malloy

Whatever it means,
it matters,
and most of it is true
I loved every one of them
and all of them ... were you — Merrit Malloy

Relationships that do not end peacefully, do not end at all. — Merrit Malloy

Whatever we say
We're always telling each other exactly what we want them to know ...
We are always telling each other
The truth
Even when
We're lying — Merrit Malloy

There is a great fear that plagues only romantics and children ... it is that they might be alright alone. — Merrit Malloy

Remembering is the opposite of being here now; it's being there now. — Merrit Malloy

R.G. Belsky's thought-provoking thriller, The Kennedy Connection, introduces us to a smart, witty, and human hero whose quest to find answers about two crimes - one famous, one all but unnoticed - is loaded with tension and full of unexpected twists and turns. I loved The Kennedy Connection, and can't wait for the next Gil Malloy novel. — Jan Burke

He is not a great man. None of us are great men. We are just caught in the wave of history. — Dave Malloy

I don't think that we'll support any state that is prepared to discriminate against the citizens of Connecticut. — Dannel Malloy

When we protect our children in their schools or on our streets, we are living up to our obligations - obligations which we should take solemnly. — Dannel Malloy

The uncle and cousin seem nice, but the aunt is a bit of a shock. Whith her hair dyed bright red, she looks like Ronald McDonald's post-menopausal sister. Who has let herself go. — Brian Malloy

What we are is our parents' children; what we become is our children's parents. — Merrit Malloy

Why is it that we always remember that people forget; but we always forget that they remember?I used to remember ... but I forgot! — Merrit Malloy

I have just been the man in the middle, trying to make sure that we steer the right course. — Dannel Malloy

You know and I know and economists know that trickle-down economics doesn't work. — Dannel Malloy