Jo Stafford Quotes

Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music

Jealousy, that diseased crow pecking at your heart.

It wasn't until I worked in the Perth Hospital kitchen in the 1970s that I began hearing stories about the ghosts that haunted their halls at night.

An owl sound wandered along the road with me.I didn't hear it--I breathed it into my ears.

Evening came, a paw, to the gray hut by the river.

I'm Irish yet I don't drink as I refuse to be a stereotype and live down to the expectations of others.

The quickest way to run out of time is to think you have enough of it,

We need only to close our eyes and we are back on the Third Line, walking up the lane, through the yard and entering the bright, warm kitchen. We are home again.

The possible is just the impossible that we've come to accept,

In every town we lived in, there was one great big door ready to open for anyone — the library. And I never met a library I didn’t like.

I embrace emerging experience. I participate in discovery. I am a butterfly. I am not a butterfly collector. I want the experience of the butterfly.

It is as if the ordinary language we use every day has a hidden set of signals a kind of secret code.

I just kept on doing what everyone starts out doing. The real question is why did other people stop?

There are three answers to prayer: yes no and wait awhile. It must be recognized that no is an answer.

As a football team, you head into the season the same way with confidence and a positive mindset that you are going to win a bunch of football games.