Mccrae Quotes & Sayings

Take up our quarrel with the foe: To you from falling hands we throw. — John McCrae

The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below — John McCrae

Dern, I hate cooking with shit.
Augustus McCrae to Lorena Wood — Larry McMurtry

But, if one cuts more deeply, the lonesome dove is Newt, a lonely teenager who is the unacknowledged son of Captain Call and a kindly whore named Maggie, who is now dead. So the central theme of the novel is not the stocking of Montana but unacknowledged paternity. All of the Hat Creek Outfit, including particularly Augustus McCrae, want Call to accept the boy as his son. — Larry McMurtry

A white noise app wouldn't work for me - I would be too distracted by the non-white noise noises I could still hear, even more distracted than i would otherwise be. So I have to just accept the regular noises. — Shane McCrae

McCrae was the kind of southerner who had only left the parish of his birth to serve his country in wartime or to carry bulls across the state for mating purposes. — Greg Iles

I wanted to be a composer for a while, and for a while, and maybe still, I found writing music much easier than writing poetry. So maybe my brain clings to it. — Shane McCrae

I choose you, James Thomas Kellan MacCrae,to be my king and coruler. — Carey Corp

Bid them be patient, and some day, anon,
They shall feel earth enwrapt in silence deep;
Shall greet, in wonderment, the quiet dawn,
And in content may turn them to their sleep. — John McCrae

There's no such thing as an animal too big too kill, AND we're cornered by such animals every day. — Shane McCrae

I learned to write with my desk in the living room, next to the TV. But mostly in my head, and I try to be able to do it under any circumstances. — Shane McCrae

You know Deets is like me - he's not one to quit on a garment just because it's got a little age - spoken by Augustus McCrae — Larry McMurtry

A man who wouldn't cheat for a poke don't want one bad enough.
Augustus "Gus" McCrae — Larry McMurtry

In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn saw sunset glow
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields
Take up our quarrel with the foe;
To you, from falling hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields. — John McCrae

I was just thinking about how my grandparents, who raised me, would be considered "white trash," whatever that means - mostly for being racists, I'd say. And how, as a child, I wanted to be like them, and identified with them culturally. — Shane McCrae

I actually can't listen to music and write poetry at the same time, but I do kind of think about the music I've been listening to when I write. — Shane McCrae

It ain't dying I'm talking about, it's living. I doubt it matters where you die, but it matters where you live." ~spoken by Augustus McCrae — Larry McMurtry

You probably drink too much. If you hand me that bottle, I'll reduce your temptations.
Augustus "Gus" McCrae — Larry McMurtry

Listening to women ain't the fashion in this part of the country.
Augustus McCrae — Larry McMurtry

Now, tomorrow Miss Laurie McCrae and me, we have an appointment with a sky pilot who will make it proper for us to travel in double harness. — Louis L'Amour

I like having a phrase lying around to get poems started. It's like having a key. — Shane McCrae

More is missed by not looking than not knowing — Thomas McCrae Osler

I think about the body kind of all the time, being as how I'm really uncomfortable in mine. — Shane McCrae

Why America has never made the connection between tract housing and psychosis is beyond me — Jackson Tippett McCrae

I just can't write and listen to music at the same time. — Shane McCrae

Fiona McCrae is a really amazing editor. Really smart and very astute about what a story needs. — Ru Freeman

We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields. — John McCrae

I think I cause a lot of headaches for editors - it's impossible to keep up with the ridiculous amount of changes I make. — Shane McCrae

I don't know that I find either aspect of Jesus more interesting than the other, although maybe I think about the God one more. — Shane McCrae

Moreover, they tell us that the Extrovert Ideal is not as sacrosanct as we may have thought. So if, deep down, you've been thinking that it's only natural for the bold and sociable to dominate the reserved and sensitive, and that the Extrovert Ideal is innate to humanity, Robert McCrae's personality map suggests a different truth: that each way of being - quiet and talkative, careful and audacious, inhibited and unrestrained - is characteristic of its own mighty civilization. — Susan Cain

Captain McCrae was wanting to know the answer to questions that had no answer. — Larry McMurtry

I do believe in Jesus as wholly God and wholly human, and I believe the human part was human. — Shane McCrae

Like restless birds, the breath of coming rain
Creeps, lilac-laden, up the village street — John McCrae

I'm always glad that other people are way smarter about my poems than I am. — Shane McCrae

I had/have a habit of sending books out before they're ready. And then I edit with almost absurd intensity. But I've done about a book a year. — Shane McCrae