478 Quotes by Pat Conroy

My soul grazes like a lamb on the beauty of an indrawn tide.

Every industry is going to be affected (by the aging population). This creates tremendous opportunities and tremendous challenges.

It is an art form to hate New York City properly. So far I have always been a featherweight debunker of New York; it takes too much energy and endurance to record the infinite number of ways the city offends me.

Though Nathalie Dupree did not remember much about my presence in her class, it marked me forever. I remain her enthusiast, her evangelist, her acolyte, and her grateful student. She taught me that cooking and storytelling make the most delightful coconspirators.

Some things don’t mix. Some things don’t mix at all, but sometimes in life you have to take the risk.

When I was 5 years old, my mother read me 'Gone With The Wind' at night, before I went to bed. I remember her reading almost all year.

A family is too frail a vessel to contain the risks of all the warring impulses expressed when such a group meets on common ground.

The safe places could only be visited; they could only grant a momentary intuition of sanctuary. The moment always came when we had to return to our real life to face the wounds and grief indigenous to our homr by the river.

The University of South Carolina has always played a role in my life and the intellectual life of South Carolina.