Mary Oliver Quotes
I had a very dysfunctional family, and a very hard childhood. So I made a world out of words. And it was my salvation.
Mary Oliver
Quotes to Explore
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I like science fiction, I like fantasy, I like time travel, so I had this idea: What if you had a phone that could call into the past?
Rainbow Rowell
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If I do something caring for a friend, I have no doubt in my mind they would do it for me.
Larry King
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When I was little, I got into a little accident, and it gave me congenital glaucoma in both of my eyes.
Fetty Wap
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I'm an honest, open father.
T.I.
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The measure of your quality as a public person, as a citizen, is the gap between what you do and what you say.
Ramsey Clark
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My hands, my feet, I throw my whole body to say all that is within me.
Mahalia Jackson
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There are two things that matter when you're making music. First, that you're doing what you love, even if it's crazy and other people tell you it's crazy. The second thing is the only people you really need to worry about are the people who love your music, not the people who speak badly about it.
Brian Fallon
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It was the ideal of living in Eretz Yisrael that took me out of my house, out of my country and caused me to travel from my place. I left my house; I repudiated my inheritance...Why? Because I wished to travel to the bosom of my mother, Eretz Yisrael.
Nahmanides
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The words contained in it were inspired by the Holy Spirit into the minds of faithful men, called Prophets and Seers in the Old Testament; and Evangelists and Apostles in the New.
Adam Clarke
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The world is full of a lot of fear and a lot of negativity, and a lot of judgment. I just think people need to start shifting into joy and happiness. As corny as it sounds, we need to make a shift.
Ellen DeGeneres
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Quite often somebody will say, What year do your books take place? and the only answer I can give is, In childhood.
Beverly Cleary
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I had a very dysfunctional family, and a very hard childhood. So I made a world out of words. And it was my salvation.
Mary Oliver
