Mary Lasswell quotes

“You can't keep a squirrel on the ground.”
-- Mary Lasswell

Source : Mary Lasswell (2016). “Suds in Your Eye”, p.114, Open Road Media

#Squirrels Quotes

“Children of yesterday, / Heirs of to-morrow, / What are you weaving? / Labor and sorrow? / Look to your looms again. / Faster and faster / Fly the great shuttles / Prepared by the Master, / Life's in the loom, / Room for it - / Room!”
-- Mary Lasswell

#Life Quotes #Hope Quotes #Children Quotes

“I feel so small I could sit on a dime an' my legs wouldn't even hang over ...”
-- Mary Lasswell

Source : Mary Lasswell (2016). “One on the House”, p.23, Open Road Media

#Legs Quotes #Dimes Quotes #Unhappiness Quotes

“Oughta be a law everybody has to take a trip every two years just to make 'em realize how good home is.”
-- Mary Lasswell

Source : Mary Lasswell (2016). “One on the House”, p.44, Open Road Media

#Travel Quotes #Home Quotes #Years Quotes

“I began to understand that all Texas is an eternal synthesis of past and present, superimposed one upon the other. It produces a feeling of being in two places at once.”
-- Mary Lasswell

Source : Mary Lasswell (1958). “I'll take Texas”

#Past Quotes #Texas Quotes #Two Quotes

“I have always brought home stray animals - everything from squirrels to wild rabbits to foxes and turtles.”

“I just need green. I need to wake up and see grass and squirrels. I don't want to see skyscrapers.”

“Textbook survival says stay still, don't take any chances, wait for rescue. That's a boring TV show. My thing was always, "Listen, shoelace, dead squirrel and no other way down this rock face. You can do this!"”

“Go on, try weasel, try squirrel; it tastes like chicken, it tastes just like chicken! If it tastes just like chicken, why don't you gimme some damn chicken?”

“It's good to see you," Said Haru. "You can see me?" asked Marcus, patting himself in sudden shock."The potion must have worn off! That's the last time I give my lunch to a talking squirrel". P12”

“All paths lie together in the hand of god like a web endlessly woven, and yours and mine are no greater or less than the beetle's or the squirrel's or the sparrow's. All are held together.”

“The next time you see one of those squirrels go near my putting green, take a gun and shoot it”

“I have six illegitimate children," Villiers informed her, not kindly. She visibly paled. :My daughter is marrying a duke," the duchess said between clenched teeth. "True, he apparently has the morals of a squirrel, but that's my cross to bear.”

“I'll tell you how the sun rose, a ribbon at a time. The steeples swam in amethyst, The news like squirrels ran. The hills untied their bonnets, The bobolinks begun. Then I said softly to myself, "That must have been the sun!”

“I was becoming more cunning than an animal in hiding my supply of morphine. A squirrel saving nuts is limited by its undeveloped imagination ... but I was not so handicapped. A squirrel, for example, is debarred from sending money to some greedy doctor or druggist and making arrangements to have a bit of powder sent each day by mail.”

Source : Evalyn Walsh McLean, Boyden Sparkes (2000). “Queen of Diamonds: The Fabled Legacy of Evalyn Walsh McLean”, Turner Publishing Company