Martha W Hickman Quotes & Sayings

...how gracious seem the small gifts that may come - a patch of sunlight on a cold floor, an unexpected gesture of friendship, the fragrant steam of hot tea. — Martha Whitmore Hickman

The time will come when no servant will be hired without a diploma from some training school, and a girl will as much expect to fit herself for house-maid or cook, as for dressmaker or any trade. — Lydia Hoyt Farmer

It doesn't matter much what kind of house you've got as long as it's a happy home ... — Steve Forbert

In case you haven't caught the commercials, I'm in the new SpongeBob SquarePants Movie. — David Hasselhoff

If we can choose where to cry, at home or with a few people who will be fully understanding, perhaps we will feel easier. But if we can't - if we are in church and a hymn catches us off guard, or at a football game and we remember being there with a son or daughter now gone - well, the earth is our home and we can cry where we want. — Martha Whitmore Hickman

No. We talked about this. I'm going home to eat a pie. — David Wong

As for inflicting our sorrow on other people, one does not want to go around blathering and crying all the time. But perhaps it is our gift to others to trust them enough to share our feelings with them. It may help them deal with some of their own. — Martha Whitmore Hickman

In a world of such beauty as birds in flight, surely I can come to feel at home again, even after my loss. — Martha Whitmore Hickman

I really like the idea of being a bit unpredictable. I'm known for being a nice, easy-going person with a straightforward exterior. So I think a bit of me wants to be sort of sly and devious. — Mark Haddon

Perhaps the reassuring thing about grieving is that the process will not be cheated. — Martha Whitmore Hickman

Atticus, are we going to win it?" "No, honey." "Then, why - " "Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to try to win," Atticus said. — Harper Lee