53+ Gladys Taber Quotes On Education, Folklore And Humor

Gladys Taber was an American author and journalist who wrote mostly about rural New England life. She was born in 1894 in Connecticut and wrote prolifically about her beloved Stillmeadow Farm in Connecticut for over 50 years. Her works include more than 30 books and countless magazine articles. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Gladys Taber on love, life, education.

Top 10 Gladys Taber Quotes

1. A house with no fireplace is a house without a heart.
2. the tentacles of today reach out like an octopus to swallow yesterday.
3. We need time to dream, time to remember, and time to reach the infinite. Time to be.
4. the real evidence of growing older is that things level off in importance ... Days are no longer jagged peaks to climb; time is a meadow, and we move over it with level steps.
5. Some of the days in November carry the whole memory of summer as a fire opal carries the color of moonrise.
6. Christmas is a bridge. We need bridges as the river of time flows past. Today's Christmas should mean creating happy hours for tomorrow and reliving those of yesterday.
7. Pride may go before a fall, but jealousy goes before destruction.
8. Dog lovers are a good breed themselves.
9. Nothing makes a house cozier than cats.
10. If I had Aladdin's lamp and the usual three wishes, the first would always be, 'Give me the first day of June.

Gladys Taber Short Quotes

• April is a promise of what's to come.
• Old houses, I thought, do not belong to people ever, not really, people belong to them.
• My own recipe for world peace is a bit of land for everyone.
• Long cold nights mark November's return, grey rains fall, wind walks in the bronze oak leaves.
• Christmas is a bridge. We need bridges as the river of time flows past.
• The real evidence of growing older is that things level off in importance.
• I know of nothing to compare with the welcome a dog gives you when you come home.
• When Father smiled, it was like the sun coming out, and spring and summer in your heart.
• Happiness is a thing of now.
• Whoever decided that comic valentines were a good idea should have been sent away to think it over.

Gladys Taber Quotes About Love

Well, any love makes us vulnerable. Whatever we love will give the gift of pain somewhere along the road. But who would live sealed in spiritual cellophane just to keep from ever being hurt? There are a few people like that. I'm sorry for them. I think they are as good as dead. — Gladys Taber

I love both the way a dog looks up to me and a cat condescends to me. — Gladys Taber

Perhaps what makes friendship and love exciting is the continuing discovery of another personality. — Gladys Taber

The creative instincts, the love force must be nourished with every beat of our hearts until they overbalance the destructive instincts. — Gladys Taber

Gladys Taber Quotes About Life

Being a good neighbor is an art which makes life richer. — Gladys Taber

History records the large events or the general condition of society, but only an individual can put down the way of life in a small town. — Gladys Taber

Life is a process of discovery, of new perceptions. — Gladys Taber

As long as you have a window, life is exciting. — Gladys Taber

My general attitude toward life when I first get up is of deep suspicion, verging on hatred. ... I am simply basted together until after breakfast. — Gladys Taber

Gladys Taber Famous Quotes And Sayings

Perhaps, after all, our best thoughts come when we are alone. It is good to listen, not to voices but to the wind blowing, to the brook running cool over polished stones, to bees drowsy with the weight of pollen. If we attend to the music of the earth, we reach serenity. And then, in some unexplained way, we share it with others. — Gladys Taber

Happiness of heart can never be measured out and bundled up, it's intangible. We keep running after it, grasping for it, and the heat of our running so seldom brings it closer. But now and then there may be a moment. We look at something and know it is good and beautiful. Those moments are happiness. — Gladys Taber

I cannot imagine a cat in an Obedience ring, running around in the hot sun and doing things on command. For it would not make sense. Whereas a dog is tolerant of your not making sense and only wants to fix things so you are happy. — Gladys Taber

November wind has a sound different from any other. It is easy to imagine the cave of the winds in some mythical Northland where the winds are born and the gods send them out to conquer the quiet air. — Gladys Taber

There must be hundreds of unsung heroes and heroines who first tasted strange things growing - and think of the man who first ate a lobster. This staggers the imagination. I salute him every time I take my nutcracker in hand and move the melted-butter pipkin closer. — Gladys Taber

Traveling is all very well if you can get home at night. I would be willing to go around the world if I came back in time to light the candles and set the table for supper. — Gladys Taber

Almost all words do have colour and nothing is more pleasant than to utter a pink word and see someone's eyes light up and know it is a pink word for him or her too. — Gladys Taber

Christmas is a kindling of new fires. — Gladys Taber

A cat is, by and large, sophisticated and complex, and capable of creating three-act plays around any single piece of action. — Gladys Taber

The curious thing about fishing is you never want to go home. If you catch something, you can't stop. If you don't catch anything, you hate to leave in case something might bite. — Gladys Taber

Most cats feel that bird-catching is their duty; the instinct goes back to prehistoric times. Amber keeps in practice by chasing moths. — Gladys Taber

Father was the most unreconciled taxpayer I ever knew. — Gladys Taber

June in New England is like a lover's dream made tangible. — Gladys Taber

nothing decorates a home like books. There they are, waiting to decorate the mind, too! — Gladys Taber

There is a kind of immortality in every garden. — Gladys Taber

I suppose I am a sparrow, a stay-at-home bird. — Gladys Taber

A good recipe for a human reducing breakfast is a lot of good things to eat, and three spaniels and two cats to eat with. — Gladys Taber

Cat lovers know that every cat is remarkable. — Gladys Taber

After all, catching something is purely a by-product of our fishing. It is the act of fishing that wipes away all grief, lightens all worry, dissolves fear and anxiety. — Gladys Taber

But housekeeping is fun. It is one job where you enjoy the results right along as you work. You may work all day washing and ironing, but at night you have the delicious feeling of sunny clean sheets and airy pillows to lie on. If you clean, you sit down at nightfall with the house shining and faintly smelling of wax, all yours to enjoy right then and there. And if you cook—that creation you lift from the oven goes right to the table. — Gladys Taber

I resolve to be more patient, less selfish, cherish my friends, and in my small way help whoever needs help. I cannot conceivably influence the world's destiny, but I can make my own life more worthwhile. I can give some help to some people; that is not vital to all the world's problems and yet, I think if everyone did just that, we might see quite a world in our time! — Gladys Taber

What would happen if all the populations on the planet simply refused to fight human beings they did not even know? — Gladys Taber

Faith is a curious thing. It must be renewed; it has its own spring. — Gladys Taber

Americans tend to believe they can do anything with or without any training or experience. — Gladys Taber

Life Lessons by Gladys Taber

1. Gladys Taber reminds us to find joy in the simple moments of life and to take time to appreciate the beauty of nature.
2. She encourages us to be grateful for the blessings we have and to be generous with our time, energy, and resources.
3. She also reminds us to be kind to ourselves and to others, and to be mindful of how our actions affect the people around us.