Merry Go Round Quotes:

What You Lose on the Swings You Make Up on the Merry-Go-Round,

- George V. Higgins

source: George V. Higgins (2012). “Defending Billy Ryan”, p.78, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

topic: Swings, Merry Go Round

Everywhere I've turned somebody has wanted to sacrifice me for my own good—only /they/ were the ones who benefited. And now we start on the old sacrificial merry-go-round. At what point do we stop?

- Ralph Ellison

topic: Sacrifice, Merry Go Round, Wanted

I think Darth Maul has been on a vicious cycle, he's been on a merry go round. In some way he's begging for Obi-Wan Kenobi to take him off that ride.

- Samuel Witwer

source: "Star Wars Rebels: Sam Witwer on Maul's Fateful Encounter With Obi-Wan". Interview with Eric Goldman, in.ign.com. March 22, 2017.

topic: Thinking, Begging, Merry Go Round

No longer riding on the merry-go-round, I just had to let it go.

- John Lennon

source: Song: Watching The Wheels, Album: Double Fantasy, 1998

topic: Let It Go, Riding, Merry Go Round

Life's just a merry-go-round. Come on up. You might get a brass ring.

- Mae West

source: Mae West (1967). “The wit and wisdom of Mae West”

topic: Life, Might, Brass, Merry Go Round

Each generation must get on the same old merry-go-round, only disguised in a fresh coat of paint.

- Katherine Anne Porter

topic: Generations, Coats, Paint, Merry Go Round

It is not enough to reach for the brass ring. You must also enjoy the merry go round.

- Julie Andrews

topic: Enough, Brass, Enjoy, Merry Go Round

You know, when I was nineteen, Grandpa took me on a roller coaster. Up, down, up, down. Oh, what a ride! I always wanted to go again. You know, it was just so interesting to me that a ride could make me so frightened, so scared, so sick, so excited, and so thrilled all together! Some didn't like it. They went on the merry-go-round. That just goes around. Nothing. I like the roller coaster. You get more out of it.

- Lowell Ganz

source: "Fictional character: Grandma". "Parenthood", www.imdb.com. 1989.

topic: Grandpa, Sick, Interesting, Rollercoaster, Roller Coaster Rides

When you're on a merry-go-round, you miss a lot of the scenery.

- Neil Diamond

topic: Missing You, Missing, Scenery, Merry, Merry Go Round

The world keeps turnin' It gets merry like a merry go 'round It gets cold like a frozen winter Well I change like summer fall But I know love is all in all Seeds we're always sowing The grace is always blowing We've just got to lift the sail And we're bound to hit the shore We'll finally calm this storm.

- Trevor Hall

source: Song: The World Keeps Turning

topic: Summer, Christian, Fall, Merry Go Round

Seasons change. So do cities. People come into your life and people go, but it's comforting to know: the ones you love are always in your heart. And if you're very lucky, a plane ride away.

- Michael Patrick King

source: Sex and the City, www.satctranscripts.com. 1998–2004.

topic: Change, Heart, Cities, Mr Big, Plane Rides

I have done the merry-go-round and I have ridden the roller-coaster. I have made my choice. I choose the roller-coaster. There is more risk when you choose the roller-coaster, but at least you will know you have lived.

- Larry Winget

topic: Choices, Risk, Done, Merry Go Round

The merry-go-round was running, yes, but... It was running backward. The small calliope inside the carousel machinery rattle-snapped its nervous-stallion shivering drums, clashed its harvest-moon cymbals, toothed its castanets, and throatily choked and sobbed its reeds, whistles, and baroque flutes.

- Ray Bradbury

source: Ray Bradbury (1962). “Something wicked this way comes: a novel”, Bantam

topic: Running, Moon, Cymbals, Stallions, Carousels

My travels have always been of the same kind. No matter where I've gone or why I've gone there it ends up that I never see anything. Becoming a movie star is living on a merry-go-round. When you travel you take the merry-go-round with you. You don't see natives or new scenery. You see chiefly the same press agents, the same sort of interviewers, and the same picture layouts of yourself.

- Marilyn Monroe

source: Marilyn Monroe (2006). “My Story”, p.181, Taylor Trade Publishing

topic: Stars, Gone, Agents, Layout, Interviewers

Disneyland really began when my two daughters were very young. Saturday was always Daddy's Day and I would take them to the merry-go-round, and sit on a bench eating peanuts while they rode. And sitting there alone, I felt there should be something built, some kind of family park where parents and children could have fun together.

- Walt Disney

topic: Daughter, Fun, Children, Animator, Parks And Recreation

I've never been to a hotel with a rotating restaurant on top, but one time I took my girlfriend to a merry-go-round, and I gave her a burrito.

- Mitch Hedberg

topic: Funny, Girlfriend, Humor, Burritos, Rotating

As much as thinking this upsets me, I'm starting to see that I need the merry-go-round much more than it needs me, and in the end my choice is to hop back on or get left in the dust.

- Wendelin Van Draanen

source: Wendelin Van Draanen (2011). “The Running Dream”, p.82, Knopf Books for Young Readers

topic: Thinking, Dust, Choices, Merry Go Round

Authentic Christianity is a roller-coaster ride, not a merry-go-round.

- Mark Hart

source: Mark Hart (2013). “Tweet Inspiration: Faith in 140 Characters (or Less)”, p.9, Franciscan Media

topic: Christianity, Roller Coaster, Coasters, Roller Coaster Rides, Merry Go Round

The years between thirty-five and sixty-five revolve before the passive mind as one unexplained, confusing merry-go-round. True, they are a merry-go-round of ill-gaited and wind-broken horses, painted first in pastel colors, then in dull grays and browns, but perplexing and intolerably dizzy the thing is, as never were the merry-go-rounds of childhood or adolescence; as never, surely, were the certain-coursed, dynamic roller-coasters of youth. For most men and women these thirty years are taken up with a gradual withdrawal from life.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

source: F. Scott Fitzgerald (2008). “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Jazz Age Stories”, p.369, Penguin

topic: Horse, Taken, Men, Unexplained, Pastel

World's flying like birds; my car's in flight. The city lights are spattered on my windshield like the fragments of the night. And I'm in flight. The sky's a wheel, a merry-go-round of wings and snow and steel, and fire. We'll tread the sky, we'll ride the scarlet horses.

- Tanith Lee

topic: Horse, Night, Sky, City Lights, Merry Go Round

Eat, drink, and be merry is perfectly good in itself; nothing is wrong in it. But it is not enough. Soon you will get tired of it. One cannot just go on eating, drinking, and merrying. Soon the merry-go-round turns into a sorry-go-round - because it is repetitive. Only a very mediocre mind can go on being happy with it.

- Rajneesh

topic: Sorry, Drinking, Tired, Mediocre Minds, Merry Go Round

My family originally lived in Brooklyn. Our first apartment was a little place above my father and uncle's hardware store in Coney Island. Now, don't get the impression that we were surrounded by merry-go-rounds, roller coasters and Ferris wheels. Nope, this was a little side street.

- Gilbert Gottfried

topic: Uncles, Father, Islands, Ferris Wheels, Coasters

There is no such thing as originality. It has all been said before, suffered before. If a person knows that, is it any wonder love becomes mechanical and death just a scene to be shunned? There is no absolute knowledge to be gained from either. Just another ride on the merry-go-round, another blurred scene of faces smiling and faces grieved.

- Clive Barker

source: Jacob Bronowski (1976). “The ascent of man”

topic: Faces, Originality, Wonder, Wonder Love, Merry Go Round

I don't have any special passion for politics, it being a never-ending merry-go-round of bosses big and small, all generally mediocre. I actually find it boring.

- Elena Ferrante

source: "Elena Ferrante: 'Anonymity lets me concentrate exclusively on writing'". Interview with Deborah Orr, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2016.

topic: Passion, Boss, Special, Merry Go Round

When I was five years old I was on a merry go round. There was a gunshot nearby. The horses stampeded. There I was running down the street on a purple wooden horse.

- Steven Wright

topic: Funny, Running, Horse, Five Year Olds, Gunshots

It's no go the merry-go-round, it's no go the rickshaw All we want is a limousine and a ticket for the peepshow.

- Louis MacNeice

source: 'Bagpipe Music' (1938)

topic: Greed, Limousines, Rickshaw, Merry Go Round

Maybe mistakes are what make our fate... without them what would shape our lives? Maybe if we had never veered off course we wouldn't fall in love, have babies, or be who we are. After all, things change, so do cities, people come into your life and they go. But it's comforting to know that the ones you love are always in your heart... and if you're very lucky, a plane ride away

- Candace Bushnell

topic: Baby, Falling In Love, Mistake, Mr Big, Plane Rides

Every man is occasionally visited by the suspicion that the planet on which he is riding is not really going anywhere; that the Force which controls its measured eccentricities hasn't got anything special in mind. If he broods on this somber theme long enough he gets the doleful idea that the laughing children on a merry-go-round or the thin, fine hands of a lady's watch are revolving more purposely than he is.

- James Thurber

source: James Thurber (1996). “Writings and Drawings”, Library of America

topic: Children, Men, Ideas, Somber, Eccentricity

The sad reality is that all the well-meaning groups and individuals who challenge our permanent war economy and the doctrine of preemptive war, who care about sustainable energy, fight for civil liberties and want corporate malfeasance to end, were once again suckered by the Democratic Party. They were had. It is not a new story. The Democrats have been doing this to us since Bill Clinton. It is the same old merry-go-round, only with Obama branding.

- Chris Hedges

topic: War, Party, Fighting, Malfeasance, Sustainable Energy

Without marriage there will be no misery - and no laughter either. There will be so much silence...it will be Nirvana on the earth! Marriage keeps thousands of things going on: the religion, the state, the nations, the wars, the literature, the movies, the science; everything, in fact, depends on the institution of marriage.

- Rajneesh

topic: Marriage, Laughter, War, Merry Go Round

Man is an onion made up of a hundred integuments, a texture made up of many threads. The ancient Asiatics knew this well enough, and in the Buddhist Yoga an exact technique was devised for unmasking the illusion of the personality. The human merry-go-round sees many changes: the illusion that cost India the efforts of thousands of years to unmask is the same illusion that the West has labored just as hard to maintain and strengthen.

- Hermann Hesse

source: Hermann Hesse (2013). “Steppenwolf: A Novel”, p.60, Macmillan

topic: Buddhist, Yoga, Men, Merry Go Round, Unmasking

'Extinction' issue. Save the species for whom??? Humans' convenience, of course! Individuals of the species are snatched from their homes/family/habitat/held in captivity/forced to mate at great physical/ spiritual pain. When the right numbers are reached, their holocaust starts all over again! Another merry-go-round/ bu$ine$$ a$ u$ual!!! Protectionists/welfarists find it a profitable issue: no controversy/ easy donations! I'd rather see an entire species extinct than in the hands of the humans!

- Adela Popescu

topic: Spiritual, Pain, Home, Merry Go Round

It was clear: I was sick. I never used to dream. They say in the old days it was the most normal thing in the world to have dreams. Which makes sense: Their whole life was some kind of horrible merry-go-round of green, orange, Buddha, juice. But today we know that dreams point to a serious mental illness. And I know that up to now my brain has checked out chronometrically perfect, a mechanism without a speck of dust.

- Yevgeny Zamyatin

topic: Dream, Dust, Orange, Specks, Merry Go Round

There the Bush Administration has offered only a merry-go-round policy. They got up on their high horse, whooped and hollered, rode around in circles and ended right back where they'd started.

- John F. Kerry

topic: Horse, Circles, Administration, Merry Go Round

Institutions work this way. A son is murdered by the police, and nothing is done. The institutions send the victim's family on a merry-go-round, going from one agency to another, until they wear out and give up. this is a very effective way to beat down poor and oppressed people, who do not have the time to prosecute their cases. Time is money to poor people. To go to Sacramento means loss of a day's pay - often a loss of job. If this is a democracy, obviously it is a bourgeois democracy limited to the middle and upper classes. Only they can afford to participate in it.

- Huey Newton

source: Huey P. Newton (2009). “Revolutionary Suicide: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.128, Penguin

topic: Jobs, Giving Up, Mean, Upper Class, Time Is Money