Quotes
Quotes - Barr
Only a baby small,
Dropt from the skies;
Small, but how dear to us
God knoweth best.
This world is run with far too tight a rein for luck to interfere. Fortune sells her wares; she never gives them. In some form or other, we pay for her favors; or we go empty away.
I call myself a 'domestic goddess.'.
I will clean house when Sears comes out with a riding vacuum cleaner.
As a housewife, I feel that if the kids are still alive when my husband gets home from work, then hey, I've done my job.
Women complain about premenstrual syndrome, but I think of it as the only time of the month I can be myself.
I sing the Poppy! The frail snowy weed! The flower of Mercy! that within its heart Doth keep "a drop serene" for human need, A drowsy balm for every bitter smart. For happy hours the Rose will idly blow-- The Poppy hath a charm for pain and woe.
With renunciation life begins.
Women complain about premenstrual syndrome, but I think of it as the only time of the month I can be myself.
. . . solitude is such a potential thing. We hear voices in solitude, we never hear in the hurry and turmoil of life; we receive counsels and comforts, we get under no other condition . . .
