There is still vitality under the winter snow, even though to the casual eye it seems to be dead.
AGNES SLIGH TURNBULLHave you ever heard apple wood talking? It’s the most loquacious of all. You really can’t get a word in edgeways.
More Agnes Sligh Turnbull Quotes
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The idea of perfection always gives one a chance to talk without knowing facts.
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I think we foreshorten our own viewpoint if we consider any state of mind, or society, or government as final. Growth and change! We can’t get away from them.
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You must learn to drink the cup of life as it comes … without stirring it up from the bottom. That’s where the bitter dregs are!
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Defeat in itself was part and parcel of the great gambling game of politics.
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A country-bred man can always learn to get on with city people, but a town-bred fellah never gets the real hang of the country.
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Burning logs can carry on quite a conversation!
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A man who could not accept it and try again was not of the stuff of which leaders are made.
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You can put city polish on a man, but by golly, it seems you can’t ever rub it off him.
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I have savored to the full all the small, daily joys. The bright sunshine on the breakfast table; the smell of the air at dusk; the sound of the clock ticking; the light rains that start gently after midnight; the hour when the family come home.
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[On religion:] Wasn’t it invented by man for a kind of solace? It’s as though he had said,
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Spring, summer, autumn, or winter. I wish I had failed as little in other ways.
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Have you ever heard apple wood talking? It’s the most loquacious of all. You really can’t get a word in edgeways.
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I’ll make me a nice comfortable garment to shut out the heat and the cold,’ and then it ends by becoming a strait-jacket.
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the human soul, by once suffering as much as it is capable of, purchases a strange and terrible immunity to all the rest of life’s sorrows.
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There is only one thing about which I shall have no regrets when my life ends.
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