Taber Quotes & Sayings

There must be hundreds of unsung heroes and heroines who first tasted strange things growing - and think of the man who first ate a lobster. This staggers the imagination. I salute him every time I take my nutcracker in hand and move the melted-butter pipkin closer. — Gladys Taber

Happiness is a thing of now. — Gladys Taber

Christmas is a bridge. We need bridges as the river of time flows past. Today's Christmas should mean creating happy hours for tomorrow and reliving those of yesterday. — Gladys Taber

The real evidence of growing older is that things level off in importance ... Days are no longer jagged peaks to climb; time is a meadow, and we move over it with level steps. — Gladys Taber

Faith is a curious thing. It must be renewed; it has its own spring. — Gladys Taber

Whoever decided that comic valentines were a good idea should have been sent away to think it over. — Gladys Taber

Words, those precious gems of queer shape and gay colours, sharp angles and soft contours, shades of meaning laid one over the other down history, so that for those far back one must delve among the lost and lovely litter that strews the centuries. They arrange themselves in the most elegant odd patterns; the sound the strangest sweet euphonious notes; they flute and sing and taber, and disappear, like apparitions, with a curious perfume and a most melodious twang. — Rose Macaulay

Most cats feel that bird-catching is their duty; the instinct goes back to prehistoric times. Amber keeps in practice by chasing moths. — Gladys Taber

April is a promise of what's to come. — Gladys Taber

November wind has a sound different from any other. It is easy to imagine the cave of the winds in some mythical Northland where the winds are born and the gods send them out to conquer the quiet air. — Gladys Taber

My general attitude toward life when I first get up is of deep suspicion, verging on hatred ... I am simply basted together until after breakfast. — Gladys Taber

Cat lovers know that every cat is remarkable. — Gladys Taber

My own recipe for world peace is a bit of land for everyone. — Gladys Taber

Traveling is all very well if you can get home at night. I would be willing to go around the world if I came back in time to light the candles and set the table for supper. — Gladys Taber

And whether rich or poor, well or ill, happy or sad, books can be a refuge, they do not change with changing circumstance, they are the open highway to yesterday, today and tomorrow wherever you will to travel. — Gladys Taber

Happiness of heart can never be measured out and bundled up, it's intangible. We keep running after it, grasping for it, and the heat of our running so seldom brings it closer. But now and then there may be a moment. We look at something and know it is good and beautiful. Those moments are happiness. — Gladys Taber

Being a good neighbor is an art which makes life richer. — Gladys Taber

Nothing decorates a home like books. There they are, waiting to decorate the mind, too! — Gladys Taber

June in New England is like a lover's dream made tangible. — Gladys Taber

Nothing makes a house cozier than cats. — Gladys Taber

If I had Aladdin's lamp and the usual three wishes, the first would always be, 'Give me the first day of June. — Gladys Taber

But housekeeping is fun. It is one job where you enjoy the results right along as you work. You may work all day washing and ironing, but at night you have the delicious feeling of sunny clean sheets and airy pillows to lie on. If you clean, you sit down at nightfall with the house shining and faintly smelling of wax, all yours to enjoy right then and there. And if you cook - that creation you lift from the oven goes right to the table. — Gladys Taber

When my own mother died, there seemed to me to be no answer to anything. For a time the only universality was death. And then I remember walking in the dusk along the quiet little street toward the house now so empty and meaningless. There was light enough from the sky to cast the lattice shadow of leaves on the walk. The sound of the river was steady and swift, and the air smelled of sulphur from the mills beyond it. As I looked up, a delicate petal of moon drifted into the tender blue, and all at once I thought, How beautiful God made the world! How wonderful that the stars still shine! And I was comforted. — Gladys Taber

I love both the way a dog looks up to me and a cat condescends to me. — Gladys Taber

We need time to dream, time to remember, and time to reach the infinite. Time to be. — Gladys Taber

Life is a process of discovery, of new perceptions. — Gladys Taber

There is a kind of immortality in every garden. — Gladys Taber

Well, any love makes us vulnerable. Whatever we love will give the gift of pain somewhere along the road. But who would live sealed in spiritual cellophane just to keep from ever being hurt? There are a few people like that. I'm sorry for them. I think they are as good as dead. — Gladys Taber

Christmas is a kindling of new fires. — Gladys Taber

Father was the most unreconciled taxpayer I ever knew. — Gladys Taber

It is Jill's theory that in every life there is one dog.Other dogs may come and go, but there is one grande affaire. I feel that is probably right and yet it worries me, for it might mean that I am a fickle person. For I seem able to love deeply just the dog I am looking at. — Gladys Taber

Dog lovers are a good breed themselves. — Gladys Taber

Old houses, I thought, do not belong to people ever, not really, people belong to them. — Gladys Taber

Almost all words do have color, and nothing is more pleasant than to utter a pink word and see someone's eyes light up and know it is a pink word for him or her, too. — Gladys Taber

Pride may go before a fall, but jealousy goes before destruction. — Gladys Taber

The begonia is an amazing plant ... it just keeps going along and blooming, and when cut back, it starts up again. — Gladys Taber

Perhaps, after all, our best thoughts come when we are alone. It is good to listen, not to voices but to the wind blowing, to the brook running cool over polished stones, to bees drowsy with the weight of pollen. If we attend to the music of the earth, we reach serenity. And then, in some unexplained way, we share it with others. — Gladys Taber

I resolve to be more patient, less selfish, cherish my friends, and in my small way help whoever needs help. I cannot conceivably influence the world's destiny, but I can make my own life more worthwhile. I can give some help to some people; that is not vital to all the world's problems and yet, I think if everyone did just that, we might see quite a world in our time! — Gladys Taber

When Father smiled, it was like the sun coming out, and spring and summer in your heart. — Gladys Taber

The curious thing about fishing is you never want to go home. If you catch something, you can't stop. If you don't catch anything, you hate to leave in case something might bite. — Gladys Taber

Indian summer comes gently, folds over the hills and valleys as softly as the fall of a leaf on a windless day. It is always unexpected. After a sharp cold spell, we wake one morning and look out and the very air is golden. The sky has a delicate dreamy color, and the yet unfallen leaves on the bravest trees have a secure look, as if they would never, never fall. — Gladys Taber

I cannot imagine a cat in an Obedience ring, running around in the hot sun and doing things on command. For it would not make sense. Whereas a dog is tolerant of your not making sense and only wants to fix things so you are happy. — Gladys Taber

I know of nothing to compare with the welcome a dog gives you when you come home. — Gladys Taber

Some of the days in November carry the whole memory of summer as a fire opal carries the color of moonrise. — Gladys Taber

What would happen if all the populations on the planet simply refused to fight human beings they did not even know? — Gladys Taber

Long cold nights mark November's return, grey rains fall, wind walks in the bronze oak leaves. — Gladys Taber

The creative instincts, the love force must be nourished with every beat of our hearts until they overbalance the destructive instincts. — Gladys Taber

Perhaps what makes friendship and love exciting is the continuing discovery of another personality. — Gladys Taber

The tentacles of today reach out like an octopus to swallow yesterday. — Gladys Taber

A cat is, by and large, sophisticated and complex, and capable of creating three-act plays around any single piece of action. — Gladys Taber

Business was bound to come; light industries were already shopping for land. The quiet country farms were already going, and developments would take over ... Eventually, of course, we will have to have some sort of plan to guide future development. — Gladys Taber

Best of all are the decorations the grandchildren have made ~ fat little stars and rather crooked Santas, shaped out of dough and baked in the oven. — Gladys Taber

Catching something is merely a byproduct of our fishing. It is the act of fishing that wipes away all grief, lightens all worry, dissolves all fear and anxiety. — Gladys Taber

As long as you have a window, life is exciting. — Gladys Taber

I suppose I am a sparrow, a stay-at-home bird. — Gladys Taber

A good recipe for a human reducing breakfast is a lot of good things to eat, and three spaniels and two cats to eat with. — Gladys Taber

Americans tend to believe they can do anything with or without any training or experience. — Gladys Taber

A house with no fireplace is a house without a heart. — Gladys Taber

History records the large events or the general condition of society, but only an individual can put down the way of life in a small town ... — Gladys Taber