Mary Katherine Quotes

My name is Mary Katherine Blackwood. I am eighteen years old, and I live with my sister Constance. I have often thought that with any luck at all, I could have been born a werewolf, because the two middle fingers on both my hands are the same length, but I have had to be content with what I had. I dislike washing myself, and dogs, and noise. I like my sister Constance, and Richard Plantagenet, and Amanita phalloides, the death-cup mushroom. Everyone else in our family is dead. ~ Shirley Jackson

Bow all your heads to our adored Mary Katherine. ~ Shirley Jackson

Education fails in so far as it does not stir in students a sharp awareness of their obligations to society and furnish at least a few guideposts pointing toward the implementation of these obligations. ~ Mary Barnett Gilson

Arty's growing flock, however, was different. I dreamed one night that Arty cried them into the world. They came out of his eyes as a green liquid that dripped to the ground making puddles. The puddles thickened and jelled into bodies that got up and hung around Arty.

But Dr. P. and the advance man and McGurk, and later Sanderson and the Bag Man and the nebbishes and the simps who mooned and crooned around him, were all there because of Arty, no matter what other pretext they might claim. They all belonged to him. ~ Katherine Dunn

I don't know where courage comes from. But I do know that if you can scrape together just a bit, more of it comes without your trying... So you don't need a great lump of bravery: only a tiny breath of it. ~ Katherine Rundell

It was enough to make me feel like retreating into some wooded or snowy clime, where only the most determined photographers or Mary-hunters might find me. ~ Tara Altebrando

The talking oak To the ancient spoke. But any tree Will talk to me. ~ Mary Carolyn Davies

Most of them students from the nearby University of Dayton... ~ Mary Roach

If you play with temptation do not expect God will deliver you ~ Mary Slessor

Families are ecosystems. Each life grows in response to the lives around it ~ Mary Schmich

That was the tricky part. You poured inordinate amounts of time and attention and affection into your kids, but the result was indirect. You didn't point out a cat to your one-year-old and then watch him, minutes later, say 'Cat.' Instead, you pointed out a hundred cats to your one-year-old and then, one day, watched him point to a cat and say 'Mama. ~ Katherine Center

You can use logic to justify just about anything, that's its power and it's flaw. ~ Captain Katherine Janeway

Daughters aren't trash you can toss away, Dad. I had to deal with the mess you left. ~ Katherine McIntyre

But a woman couldn't stop her thoughts until she had them, now could she? ~ Mary Connealy

There is no learning without mistakes ~ Mary Walton

With enough time, you can get used to almost anything. ~ Katherine Applegate

I'm aware of the fact that I don't know how to do it all, but I want for my blog to be a place where people can come to ask questions so that I can look for the answers for them. That's the kind of work that I did for my books, and I want to transition that to my blog for more of a community feel. ~ Katherine Schwarzenegger

Consider the whole thing as occupational therapy. Power as cottage industry for the mad. The shepherd is slave to the sheep. A gardener is in thrall to his carrots. Only a lunatic would want to be president. These lunatics are created deliberately by those who wish to be presided over. You've seen it a thousand times. We create a leader by locating one in the crowd who is standing up. This may well be because there are no chairs or because his knees are fused by arthritis. It doesn't matter. We designate this victim as a 'stand-up guy' by the simple expedient of sitting down around him. ~ Katherine Dunn

Well, and there is the end of our little drama," I remarked, after we had sat some time smoking in silence. "I fear that it may be the last investigation in which I shall have the chance of studying your methods. Miss Morstan has done me the honour to accept me as a husband in prospective."
He gave a most dismal groan. ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

If you run away from your marriage, I, myself, will take permission from our mother Mary, go to Amadioha and ask him to strike you dead, and after that come back to our mother most merciful. ~ S.A. David

Inhabit ourselves that we may indeed do what we want to do. ~ Mary Caroline Richards

Perhaps she was just looking for love in the wrong places. In all the safe places. What if love was not safe at all? ~ Mary Balogh

If you ever feel to express proper gratitude for the good things of this life, be sure that you express your gratitude for the right thing. Very likely you will not have a great deal of gratitude, and you must not waste any of it but what you do have will be of the most excellent quality. For it will accumulate, and the accumulation will all go to quality. And the things for which you are to be grateful are the bitternesses you have known.

If you have had it in mind ever to give way to bursts of gratitude for this air that comes from off the salt sea, for that line of pearls and violets that you see just above the horizon, for the health of your body, for the sleep that comes to you at the close of the day, for any of those things, then get rid of the idea at once. Those things are quite well, but they are not really given to you. They are merely placed where any one can reach them with little effort. The kind fates don't care whether you get them or not. Their responsibility ends when they leave them there.

But the bitternesses they give to each person separately. They give you yours, Mary MacLane, for your very own. Don't say they never think of you. ~ Mary MacLane

It was pretty awful for us children because we never really knew the local children. Mother was keen for us to learn languages, so our travels took us to France and Italy, as well as the West Country. ~ Mary Wesley

Letting someone you don't really like surprise you is evolved, ~ Mary-Louise Parker

Courage to be is the key to revelatory power of the feminist revolution. ~ Mary Daly

It's nice to be able to explore both sides of my personality. I definitely relate more to Debbie, my character on The Grinder. But it's really nice because I get to play a character who's down on her luck and kinda slipping off the edge in It's Always Sunny, while at the same time getting to play this character who's a mom and holding it together on The Grinder. ~ Mary Elizabeth Ellis

The scrutiny was smothering. Right now it seemed that being Vendan within these outpost walls was preferable to being the impudent royal who had abandoned their precious prince at the altar. ~ Mary E. Pearson

Death was confused. "That's senseless! I am the doorway to eternity. ~ Mary Ann D'Alto

Ulcerative colitis can be cured by the operation, but you cannot cure Crohn's disease. ~ Mary Ann Mobley

See stars in the changing season and dance among them, shining. ~ Mary Anne Radmacher

No organization is going to be successful unless it places a high value on its employees and engages them in the work that it's doing. ~ Mary Burke