52 Quotes by Dorothy Gilman

quoting Omar Khayyam's Rubaiyat: "Good friends beware! the only life we knows Flies from us like an arrow from the bow, the Caravan of life is moving by, Quick! to your places in the passing show.

...remove the cold war and internal conflicts multiply in countries by the week.

She felt again that small shiver that occurred to her when events hinted at a destiny being played out, of unseen forces intervening.

People need dreams, there's as much nourishment in 'em as food.

... old clothes, old friends, old books. One needs constants in a traveling life.

What continues to astonish me about a garden is that you can walk past it in a hurry, see something wrong, stop to set it right, and emerge an hour or two later breathless, contented, and wondering what on earth happened.

It's when we're given choice that we sit with the gods and design ourselves.

A man from hell is not afraid of hot ashes.

Hell is more like boredom, or not having enough to do, and too much time to contemplate one's deficiencies.