Quotes from Robert Breault

No matter what you do in life, a part of you still sits at a curbside, still hearing the drumbeat of a distant parade, still waiting for it to turn the corner.

In this, the late afternoon of my life, I wonder: am I casting a longer shadow or is my shadow casting a shorter me?

In the end, no thought is unthinkable, no problem unshrinkable, no two strangers unlinkable.

You spend the first two-thirds of your life asking to be left alone and the last third not having to ask.

Dare to turn life on its end, and you may find that topsy-turvy is a truer perspective than turvy-topsy.

Perhaps I have lived my life to excess, but know what — if I had it to do over again, I would overdo it again.

Life never tires of testing the proposition that life must go on.

Life starts out as partly destiny and partly free will, but then you have kids, and it's all destiny.

Things happen in everyday life that make you consider living your life just every other day.

In a houseful of toddlers and pets, you can start out having a bad day, but you keep getting detoured.

You can spend too much time wondering which of identical twins is the more alike.

For centuries, man believed that the sun revolves around the earth. Centuries later, he still thinks that time moves clockwise.

I look back on the time I've wasted, and I'm just glad I wasted it while I still had the chance.

I am not your dog, but if every time you saw me, you gave me a backrub, I would run to greet you, too.

The lesson of Good Friday is to never lose hope — or at least give it 48 hours.

The perfect family board game is one that can be played each time with fewer pieces.

Life is a series of tasks that you absolutely must get done before they don't matter any more.

Looking back on a happy life, one realizes that one was not happy all the time.

Sometimes in life you have an appointment with destiny, and sometimes you just have to get destiny to squeeze you in.

Life is a series of family photos in which you keep moving to the rear until finally you're a portrait in the background.

Yes, I believe in guardian angels, because otherwise I must believe that life is a string of death-defying miracles - and I don't believe in miracles.

Sometimes to do the right thing, we must keep a promise we never made.

A bottle of wine Still to be drunk, A bundle of thoughts Still to be thunk.

Ah, yes, my social life — a series of encounters where we briefly debate who is in the greater rush.