478 Quotes by Pat Conroy

…Then another porpoise broke the water and rolled toward us. A third and fourth porpoise neared. The visitation was something so rare and perfect that we knew by instinct not to speak—and then as quickly as they had come, the porpoises moved away from us…Each of us would remember that all during our lives. It was the purest moment of freedom and headlong exhilaration that I had ever felt. A wordless covenant was set, and I would go back in my imagination, and return to where happiness seemed so easy to touch.

Families without songs are unhappy families.

Isn't it a shame military doctors couldn't be as good as military sunglasses?

One of the greatest gifts you can get as a writer is to be born into an unhappy family.

Craziness attacks the softest eyes and hamstrings the gentlest flanks.

I stood face to face with the moon and the ocean and the future that spread out with all its bewildering immensity before me.

One does not know where love will take you.

Man wonders but God decides When to kill the Prince of Tides.

Those wishing to be successful in the market can't ignore the boomer numbers, the wealth and spending power they have.