Gladys Taber Quotes

A house with no fireplace is a house without a heart.

Almost all words do have colour 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.

the tentacles of today reach out like an octopus to swallow yesterday.

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

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.

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.

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

nothing decorates a home like books. There they are, waiting to decorate the mind, too!

Dog lovers are a good breed themselves.

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.

After all, catching something is purely a by-product of our fishing. It is the act of fishing that wipes away all grief, lightens all worry, dissolves fear and anxiety.

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

April is a promise of what's to come.

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

Nothing makes a house cozier than cats.

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

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

Happiness is a thing of now.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Christmas is a bridge. We need bridges as the river of time flows past.

Life is a process of discovery, of new perceptions.

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.

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.

The real evidence of growing older is that things level off in importance.

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

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

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

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

Cat lovers know that every cat is remarkable.

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

There is a kind of immortality in every garden.

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

Christmas is a kindling of new fires.

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

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.

Father was the most unreconciled taxpayer I ever knew.

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

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.

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

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

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.

Faith is a curious thing It must be renewed it has its own spring.

Catching something is purely a byproduct of our fishing. It is the act of fishing that wipes away all grief lightens all worry dissolves all fear and anxiety.

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