Elizabeth Hay Quotes

But some feelings take a long time, they sort of grow behind your back. You turn around thirty years later and there they are.

Elizabeth Hay

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• Sometimes your parents are the ones with the biggest mouths of all time.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • Time
  • Parents
  • Sometimes

• I have lots of friends and, like me, they're not married. So my kids have lots of godparents - men and women, gay and straight. My loft is always filled with people helping me out with them and loving them.

  

  Edie Falco
  • People
  • Men
  • Women

• Being a twin, and being my sister's twin, is such a defining part of my life that I wouldn't know how to be who I am, including a writer, without that being somehow at the centre.

  

  Taiye Selasi
  • Life
  • Sister
  • Writer

• Back when I was growing up, it was like, 'You're too young to know what you want. We're telling you what you want. It doesn't matter if you like it. And you are stupid. Just so you know.'

  

  Wendi McLendon-Covey
  • Up
  • Want
  • Growing

• My husband is in charge of all phone, email and texting duties at home. He even has to turn on the TV and air conditioning because I'm so hopeless with technology.

  

  Becki Newton
  • Home
  • Technology
  • Air

• And really, the basis, I think, of achieving some success in what I want to do today comes from my mother's push to get me to read and to make something of myself from the standpoint of an education.

  

  Sam Donaldson
  • Mother
  • Today
  • Success

• I love making lists.

  

  J. Courtney Sullivan
  • Love
  • Making
  • Lists

• When you get out of the Marine Corps, you feel like you can do anything.

  

  Adam Driver
  • You
  • Feel
  • Marine

• When you sing the same song over and over and over again, it stops meaning what it originally meant to you. It starts sounding like white noise, or my washing machine.

  

  Linda Ronstadt
  • Song
  • Meaning
  • Sing

• Too many lives go up in smoke - It's nice to laugh but don't be the joke.

  

  Janet Jackson
  • Life
  • Up
  • Nice

• Everything that we put into our bodies should also be of nature, a part of that cycle of nature. Once you start messing with that - as I said, everything is connected. Once you start messing with psychological well-being, we get more and more messed up.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Up
  • Nature
  • Body

• When we think of God, we are apt to think of Him in human form. In the Epiphanies of the Old Testament God revealed Himself to Joshua and others in human form. He puts Himself within the compass of our highest conception, in order that He may make Himself real to us in His love and sympathy and power.

  

  A. C. Dixon
  • God
  • Power
  • Conception

• Never define your success by somebody else's success. I never looked at another man's grass to tell how green mine should be.

  

  Alvin Nathaniel Joiner
  • Men
  • Success
  • Green

• Quid est ergo tempus? Si nemo ex me quaerat, scio; si quaerenti explicare velim, nescio. What, then, is time? I know well enough what it is, provided that nobodyasksme; but if Iamasked what it is and try to explain, I am baffled.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Baffled

• The journey is over. Love to all.

  

  Carolyn Heilbrun
  • Love
  • Journey

• I see a skill developing of writing about not just feelings that I'm feeling, but things that I deeply care about as well.

  

  Ezra Furman
  • Care
  • Feelings
  • Developing

• People who live in quiet, remote places are apt to give good dinners. They are the oft-recurring excitement of an otherwise unemotional, dull existence. They linger, each of these dinners, in our palimpsest memories, each recorded clearly, so that it does not blot out the others.

  

  M. E. W. Sherwood
  • People
  • Good
  • Live

• But some feelings take a long time, they sort of grow behind your back. You turn around thirty years later and there they are.

  

  Elizabeth Hay
  • Feelings
  • Thirty