Meriah Quotes & Sayings

Maybe over time I'll forget the feel and smell and sound of him, the same way I am starting to forget Mom, but I'll never be able to forget that he should've been here. — Tawni O'Dell

Life question reflects nation's nature & equality of humans. — Mike Huckabee

In 1938, when I had decided that the only way to see the country was in a trailer, and I built the trailer which I still have and lived in it for eighteen months, and learned America from San Diego to the Canadian border, from Miami to New Jersey, and east to west in between. — Leslie Charteris

Elizabeth Hardwick told me once that all her first drafts sounded as if a chicken had written them. So do mine for the most part. — Flannery O'Connor

Once, when I was about ten, we were approaching the ranch after veering north to look at some pasturage when we saw a small barefoot boy racing along the hot road with terror in his face. My father just managed to stop him. Though incoherent with fear, the boy managed to inform us that his little brother had just drowned in the horse trough. My father grabbed the boy and we went racing up to the farmhouse, where the anguished mother, the drowned child in her arms, was sobbing, crying out in German, and rocking in a rocking chair. Fortunately the boy was not quite dead. My father managed to get him away from his mother long enough to stretch him out on the porch and squeeze the water out of him. In a while the boy began to belch dirty fluids and then to breathe again. The crisis past, we went on home. The graceful German mother brought my father jars of her best sauerkraut for many, many years. — Larry McMurtry

Get plenty of education. Lead you class in all things. Keep your body clean and strong. Keep your opinions to yourself. — Kurt Vonnegut

You know the Zen question, 'The Bodhisattva of Great Mercy' has a thousand hands and a thousand eyes; 'which is the true eye?' I could not understand this for a long time. But the other day, when I looked at the pine trees bending before the cold blasts from the mountain, I suddenly realized the meaning. You see, all the boughs, branches, twigs, and leaves simultaneously bend to the wind with tremendous vigor. — Katsuki Sekida

If you try to do that in pop music - to play only rare show tunes, for example - people don't come. — Bobby Short

She looked all around. It was so strange to feel trapped in the middle of so much open space. But that was exactly how she felt. — Chris Kurtz

Yes, I am here. And you are lucky to be here too after all the absurd things you've done since you left home. — J.R.R. Tolkien

I go out there with whatever the coaches call, and whatever they do, I just go out there, and I'm the player. Coaches coach, and players play. — Wes Welker