Charlotte Gray Quotes

Wake in the deepest dark of night and hear the driving rain. Reach out a hand and take a paw and go to sleep again.

In the welter of statistics about selected ethnic origins (singular or multiple) in the last census, one finding was often overlooked. Of the 25,309,330 people living in Canada in 1986, only 69,065 declared themselves as Canadians.

Music is the voice of all humanity, of whatever time or place. In its presence, we are one.

Success is not fame or money or the power to bewitch. it is to have created something valuable from your own individuality and skill a garden, an embroidery, a painting, a cake, a life.

A bear remains a bear - even when most of him has fallen off or worn away.

People meeting for the first time suddenly relax if they find they both have cats. And plunge into anecdote.

Children and mothers never truly part
Bound in the beating of each other's hearts.

Friendships fail some years,
blight twists the leaves and the crop is bitter.
Frost bites or sudden fire devours:
but the root lies sound and waits for better weather or a storm of sleet to scour the branches.
Then we shall see another spring:
a flare of green flame and flowers burning to fruit along the boughs.

Any cat that misses a mouse pretends it was aiming for the dead leaf.

All that I am my mother made me. - John Quincy Adams. Children and mothers never truly part ...

Becoming a mother makes you the mother of all children. From now on each wounded, abandoned, frightened child is yours. You live in the suffering mothers of every race and creed and weep with them. You long to comfort all who are desolate.

Small child once you were a hope, a dream. Now you are a reality. Changing all that is to come. A love to hold our hearts forever.

A dog trusts deeply and so is easily betrayed.

You can kid the world, but not your sister.