Like everything else, love’s not worth much without some action to back it up.
PAT CONROYGood coaching is good teaching and nothing else.
More Pat Conroy Quotes
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I loved my parents… but that can never change the fact that my father’s violence ruined my childhood.
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Mama always taught her children that words were pretty, but anyone can talk. She said, pay attention to that man or woman who acted, who did, who performed. She taught us to trust in thing we could see, not that we heard.
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Teach them the quiet words of kindness, to live beyond themselves.
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Carolina beach music,” Dupree said, coming up on the porch. “The holiest sound on earth.
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Books are living things and their task lies in their vows of silence.
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Put me into a crusader’s armor, a cardinal’s vestments. Let me feel the pygmy’s heartbeat, the queen’s breast, the torturer’s pleasure, the Nile’s taste, or the nomad’s thirst.
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Happiness is an accident of nature, a beautiful and flawless aberration.
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Honor is the presence of God in man.
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When mom and dad went to war the only prisoners they took were the children
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I’ve never had anyone’s approval, so I’ve learned to live without it.
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My wound is geography. It is also my anchorage, my port of call.
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There are no ideas in the South, just barbecue.
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When men talk about the agony of being men, they can never quite get away from the recurrent theme of self-pity.
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From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited any readers who chose to make the journey with me to join me on the high wire.
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A library could show you everything if you knew where to look.
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