Greeting Card Quotes:

Greeting cards routinely tell us everybody deserves love. No. Everybody deserves clean water. Not everybody deserves love all the time.

- Zadie Smith

topic: Water, Cards, Greeting Card

I squirrel away sealed greeting cards that people give me so I can open them later when I'm having a bad day.

- Emily Procter

topic: Bad Day, Squirrels, People, Having A Bad Day, Greeting Card

I ignore Hallmark Holidays. And this comes from a guy who has sold a million Opus greeting cards.

- Berkeley Breathed

topic: Holiday, Guy, Cards, Greetings, Greeting Card

If women were in charge of all the world's nations, there would be sincerely believe this - no military conflicts, and when there WAS a military conflict, everybody involved would feel just awful and there would soon be a high-level exchange of notes written on greeting cards with flowers on the front, followed by a Peace Luncheon

- Dave Barry

topic: Hilarious, Military, Believe, Greeting Card

There's all kinds of love in the world, and not all of it looks like the stuff in greeting cards.

- Jennifer Weiner

source: Jennifer Weiner (2010). “Best Friends Forever”, p.130, Simon and Schuster

topic: Cards, Looks, World, Greeting Card

I honestly never intended food to occupy so much of my creative work. Food-writing often seems about to plummet straight into sentimentality. I think food can be dangerous to write about because if you don't manage to mediate it somehow, it can be the worst sort of greeting card.

- Diana Abu-Jaber

source: Source: www.guernicamag.com

topic: Writing, Thinking, Creative, Greeting Card

I wrote home to say how lovely everything was, and I used flourishing words and phrases, as if I were living life in a greeting card - the kind that has a satin ribbon on it, and quilted hearts and roses, and is expected to be so precious to the person receiving it that the manufacturer has placed a leaf of plastic on the front to protect it.

- Jamaica Kincaid

topic: Live Life, Home, Heart, Greeting Card

We can talk about courage and love and compassion until we sound like a greeting card store, but unless we're willing to have an honest conversation about what gets in the way of putting these into practice in our daily lives, we will never change. Never, ever.

- Brené Brown

topic: Love, Compassion, Practice, Love And Courage, Greeting Card

i found religion in the greeting card aisle now i know hallmark was right

- Ani DiFranco

source: Song: Superhero, Album: Dilate, 1996

topic: Women, Religion, Cards, Greeting Card

For Dad, the perfect Father's Day would be one in which he didn't even realize that it was Father's Day, because nobody was making him appreciate gifts he didn't want, or read greeting cards filled with lame Father's Day poetry.

- Dave Barry

topic: Dad, Father, Appreciate, Perfect Father, Greeting Card

My skin may have wrinkles but it's because I'm smiling so much. That might sound like some terrible American greetings card, but I feel it's immoral for me to castigate my body for getting older, when it does everything I ask of it.

- Olivia Williams

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Wrinkles, Getting Older, Skins, Greeting Card

Romance isn't about proving to someone you love them with flowers and greeting cards and chocolate. Or even a lock on a fence. It's a daily reminder. It's saying, I choose you. Today and every day.

- Kristen Proby

topic: Love, Flower, Romance, Greeting Card

Valentine's Day was created by the greeting card industry to get pussy.

- Anthony Jeselnik

source: Twitter post from Feb 14, 2012

topic: Valentine, Pussy, Cards, Greeting Card

I'm interested in humor, and greeting cards just happen to be a perfect medium for my message. They're accessible to everyone, and thanks to all the advances that have been made by environmentally conscientious printers, I can get my message across while keeping my carbon footprint relatively small.

- Anne Taintor

topic: Perfect, Messages, Cards, Greetings, Greeting Card

If you live in your senses, slowly, with attention, if you use your eyes and your fingertips and your taste buds, then romance is something you’ll never need a greeting card to make you remember.

- Erica Bauermeister

source: Erica Bauermeister (2009). “The School of Essential Ingredients”, p.113, Penguin

topic: Eye, Romance, Taste Buds, Greeting Card

Each time you toss out a 'singing' greeting card, you are disposing of more computing power than existed in the entire world before 1950.

- Paul Saffo

topic: Singing, World, Toss, Computing, Greeting Card

Whether it's watching a $4,000 laptop fall off the conveyor belt at airport security, contending with a software conflict that corrupted your file management system, or begging your family to stop opening those virus-carrying 'greeting cards' attached to emails, all computer owners are highly leveraged and highly vulnerable technology investors.

- Douglas Rushkoff

topic: Fall, Technology, Airports, Contending, Airport Security

Let me say something about that word: miracle. For too long it's been used to characterize things or events that, though pleasant, are entirely normal. Peeping chicks at Easter time, spring generally, a clear sunrise after an overcast week--a miracle, people say, as if they've been educated from greeting cards.

- Leif Enger

source: Leif Enger (2001). “Peace Like a River”, p.3, Atlantic Monthly Press

topic: Easter, Spring, Long, Peeping, Overcast

We are so convinced of the goodness of ourselves, and the goodness of our love, we cannot bear to believe that there might be something more worthy of love than us, more worthy of worship. Greeting cards routinely tell us everybody deserves love. No. Everybody deserves clean water. Not everybody deserves love all the time.

- Zadie Smith

topic: Believe, Water, Our Love, Worthy Of Love, Clean Water

Some days I do appreciate things more, eggs, flowers, but then I decide I'm only having an attack of sentimentality, my brain going pastel Technicolor, like a beautiful-sunset greeting cards they used to make so many of in California. High-gloss hearts. The danger is grayout.

- Margaret Atwood

source: Margaret Atwood (1986). “The Handmaid's Tale”, p.200, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Beautiful, Flower, Heart, Pastel, Greeting Card

I'm not sure I knew what an entrepreneur was when I was ten, but I knew that starting little businesses and trying to sell greeting cards or newspapers door-to-door or just vending machine kind of thing is.. there's just something very intriguing to me about that.

- Steve Case

topic: Business, Doors, Entrepreneur, Greetings, Vending Machines

To say that George Lucas cannot write a love scene is an understatement; greeting cards have expressed more passion.

- Roger Ebert

source: "Spoiling for 'Star Wars'" by Todd Leopold, www.cnn.com. May 19, 2005.

topic: Passion, Writing, Cards, Greeting Card

Mothers are not the nameless, faceless stereotypes who appear once a year on a greeting card with their virtues set to prose, but women who have been dealt a hand for life and play each card one at a time the best way they know how. No mother is all good or all bad, all laughing or all serious, all loving or all angry. Ambivalence rushes through their veins.

- Erma Bombeck

source: "Motherhood: The Second Oldest Profession".

topic: Mother, Hands, Years, Ambivalence, Faceless

Don't send funny greeting cards on birthdays or at Christmas. Save them for funerals when their cheery effect is needed.

- P. J. O'Rourke

source: P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People”, p.12, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

topic: Birthday, Funeral, Cards, Greeting Card

I don't turn to greeting cards for wisdom and advice, but they are a fine reflection of the general drift of the culture.

- Susan Orlean

topic: Reflection, Advice, Cards, Greeting Card