Pattie Mallette Quotes

Sometimes God makes you wait, Pattie. And then wait some more. And sometimes even right at the last minute, He makes you wait just a little bit longer until He comes through. It's how you learn to trust in Him. ~ Pattie Mallette

My dad abandoned me when I was about two years old. So, he wasn't around to protect me the way I needed to be protected. I started getting sexually abused from the time I was about five years old to the time I was ten. It really messed with my sense of self worth and my sense of all that was good with the world, almost. ~ Pattie Mallette

I know some people need counseling but not everyone can afford it. ~ Pattie Mallette

One fleece down, one to go. ~ Pattie Mallette

Those who are hardest to love need it the most ~ Pattie Mallette

I went through a lot of abuse and a lot of really difficult things growing up - depression, anxiety, attempted suicide. ~ Pattie Mallette

It's hard to be vulnerable in front of the whole world because everyone's a critic. ~ Pattie Mallette

For the most part, each day listed a different rendition of "Justin ate well" and "Justin took a great nap". Every now and then they noted Justin doing unusual things, like biting. I was embarrassed to read "Justin is biting his friends again" or "Justin did better with biting and only bit one boy". Other than that, though, my son was a pretty happy-go-lucky kid. ~ Pattie Mallette

Those that are the hardest to love, need it the most. ~ Pattie Mallette

No matter what projects I'm taking on, I want to (do) things to help other people. ~ Pattie Mallette

People blame the 1960s for just about everything these days, but it was the decade when all that post-war furtiveness and small-mindedness was finally blown open, and opportunity really came knocking. ~ Pattie Boyd

I can't rewrite history. ~ Pattie Boyd

Men find it more difficult than women to be alone. They function better with someone in their lives. Being married, they are rooted, so they feel safe to go and do what they want to do. ~ Pattie Boyd

I had never been allowed to go on tour with my husband George Harrison, so had no idea what to expect when I left him to join Eric Clapton on his 1974 U.S. tour. ~ Pattie Boyd

I was a firm believer that if you get married, then that should be it. But it's sadly not always the case; sometimes people can't remain together for whatever reason. ~ Pattie Boyd

I didn't have boyfriends until my late teens. I was at a girls' boarding school, and my stepfather disapproved of me going out with anybody. I never really came across any boys. When I did, one of them asked me out, and I was petrified. I felt like a fish out of water, and it was excruciating. ~ Pattie Boyd

I wasn't really terribly familiar with the Beatles when I met George. They were just emerging. They certainly weren't as big as they became later on. I just knew them as a pop group, and that's all. I was keener on George as a man and a person, as opposed to someone in a band. ~ Pattie Boyd

Musicians always have music in their heads about their perceptions of the world. ~ Pattie Boyd

We like to invent new disciplines or look at new problems, and invent bandwagons rather than jump on them. ~ Pattie Maes

I've been avoiding journalists my whole life. ~ Pattie Boyd

One grows up thinking you will naturally be able to have children, and when it doesn't happen, it's a shock. But I just feel that it wasn't meant to be. ~ Pattie Boyd

I feel very lucky that I was part of that whole scene in the '60s and '70s. I love looking at the photographs because everyone was young, and they were so gorgeous to look at. ~ Pattie Boyd

Pattie helped me understand that you can provide someone with food and shelter, train them in a skill for employment, even offer professional treatment for an addictions, but these acts don't necessarily reach down to that place inside a person where fear, shame, guilt, hurt, and hopelessness wreak havoc. Pattie's greatest need was to be seen, and then to be loved, accepted and validated. ~ Jim Palmer

It wasn't until I realised that I could actually take nice photographs that I started to become passionate about it. I then got a few jobs working for magazines in London, and I would get terribly excited and intense about doing a job and taking photographs and looking through the lens to capture something amazing. ~ Pattie Boyd

It was daylight and I drove everyone home - I was driving a Mini with John and Cynthia and Pattie in it. I seem to remember we were doing eighteen miles an hour and I was really concentrating - because some of the time I just felt normal and then, before I knew where I was, it was all crazy again. Anyway, we got home safe and sound, and somewhere down the line John and Cynthia got home. I went to bed and lay there for, like, three years. ~ George Harrison

I think modelling is a very difficult thing. It's glamorous and fun, but underneath it all, you know your flaws, and those are what you focus on. ~ Pattie Boyd

I love life. There's so much to learn and see all the time, and nothing nicer for me than to wake up, and the sky is blue. ~ Pattie Boyd

I do have a right to talk about my life, to tell my truth from my perspective. ~ Pattie Boyd

I try to eat healthy, but being Belgian, I'm also addicted to chocolate. ~ Pattie Maes

Never Let anyone tell you that you can't; show them that you can. ~ Gloria Mallette

I loved everything that went with rock n' roll. I loved being at the heart of such creativity and being young in such a stimulating and exciting era. ~ Pattie Boyd

I'm blessed with the fact that I'm a fighter. I've always known life was meant to be joyful. ~ Pattie Boyd

It was great fun to hang around the Beatles. They had amazingly fast minds, and they were incredibly amusing and funny and witty. They were great. There was a very high energy surrounding them. ~ Pattie Boyd

The most common metaphor for careers is a ladder, but this concept no longer applies to most workers. As of 2010, the average American had eleven jobs from the ages of eighteen to forty-six alone.1 This means that the days of joining an organization or corporation and staying there to climb that one ladder are long gone. Lori often quotes Pattie Sellers, who conceived a much better metaphor: "Careers are a jungle gym, not a ladder. ~ Sheryl Sandberg

When you're married to somebody iconic, people tend to notice him. ~ Pattie Boyd

I've been intrigued by this question of whether we could evolve or develop a sixth sense - a sense that would give us seamless access and easy access to meta-information or information that may exist somewhere that may be relevant to help us make the right decision about whatever it is that we're coming across. ~ Pattie Maes

I am not one of those people who lives for work. I enjoy sculpting and photography and tennis and swimming. I simply do not have enough time. My life is not in control. ~ Pattie Maes

Once I've taken photographs, I look at them, and I get into them, and I'm there for the moment - and then that's it. I find little time for reflection. ~ Pattie Boyd

It's such a joy to be able to have friendships free from worry. It's so lovely to live without fear. ~ Pattie Boyd