Mary Oliver Quotes

So this is how you swim inward. So this is how you flow outwards. So this is how you pray.

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• At the end of the day, don't forget that you're a person, don't forget you're a mother, don't forget you're a wife, don't forget you're a daughter.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • Mother
  • Day
  • Wife

• An idea can only be materialized with the help of a medium of expression, the inherent qualities of which must be surely sensed and understood in order to become the carrier of an idea.

  

  Hans Hofmann
  • Help
  • Idea
  • Expression

• I wanted to be a ballet teacher.

  

  Jaclyn Smith
  • Teacher
  • Wanted
  • Ballet

• If you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you, I don't care how big your bank account is, your life is a disaster.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Life
  • Age
  • Care

• May God protect me from gloomy saints.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • God
  • Me
  • Protect

• I don't think I'm a workaholic. Every weekend, I invite my colleagues and friends to my home to play cards. And people, my neighbors, are always surprised because I live on the second floor apartment, and there are usually 40 pairs of shoes in front of my gate, and people play cards inside and play chess. We have a lot of fun.

  

  Jack Ma
  • People
  • Live
  • Home

• There's no family in America that can celebrate a victory better than the Harbaughs. You'll never hear more laughter, more storytelling, or more embellishment.

  

  Jack Harbaugh
  • Family
  • America
  • Victory

• I was assigned to the heavy cruiser Chicago.

  

  Jack Adams
  • Chicago
  • Heavy
  • Assigned

• The Barenboim Foundation has nothing to do with politics.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Politics
  • Foundation

• I think that it's a vital moment now for Russian democracy to convince people that it's only our actions, our joined actions and protests that could force Kremlin to reconsider its plans to abolish presidential elections.

  Garry Kasparov
  • People
  • Democracy
  • Moment

• The fantasy that appeals most to people is the kind that's rooted thoroughly in somebody looking around a corner and thinking, 'What if I wandered into this writer's people here?' If you've done your job and made your people and your settings well enough, that adds an extra dimension that you can't buy.

  

  Tamora Pierce
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Done

• The Second Amendment is an integral part of the Bill of Rights.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Rights
  • Second

• A lawyer's dream of heaven: every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Dream
  • Man
  • Heaven

• Fishing seems to be the favorite form of loafing.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Form
  • Favorite
  • Fishing

• One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • People
  • Life
  • Trust

• It's nice not to have lines when you frown, especially on TV. I don't know why people make such a fuss about it. No one is interested if a woman has her teeth capped or her hair dyed.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • People
  • Why
  • Nice

• What better way to foray into production than with 'Khaidi No 150.' The film is truly close to my heart because it is my father's 150th film.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Heart
  • Father
  • Better

• The mind of a bigot to the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour on it, the more it contracts.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Mind
  • Light
  • Eye

• I think I'm probably the only person that, when the parents lent me money to make the movie, they wished I had not paid them back. They could have said 'No,' and it would have ended, and I would have gotten a real job.

  

  John Waters
  • Real
  • Money
  • Job

• I cannot fail to call the congregation to worship God, to listen to his Word, to offer themselves to God.

  

  Eugene H. Peterson
  • Fail
  • Congregation
  • Worship God

• I think it's interesting: What is the generational effect of the experience of being a gay person in America? For my generation, it was very difficult.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Experience
  • America
  • Interesting

• It's so weird to say this about the icon and legend that is Cher, but she's like an old girlfriend. We still talk all the time. She's an incredible person personally and professionally, giving such amazing advice, stories for days, been there done that. She's one of a kind.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Time
  • Done
  • She

• For victory is victory, however small, nor is its worth only from what follows from it.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Victory
  • Follows

• So this is how you swim inward. So this is how you flow outwards. So this is how you pray.

  

  Mary Oliver