Quotes from Gladys Taber

My own recipe for world peace is a bit of land for everyone.

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

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.

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

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

Pride may go before a fall, but jealousy goes before destruction.

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

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

Life is a process of discovery, of new perceptions.

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.

Business was bound to come; light industries were already shopping for land. The quiet country farms were already going, and developments would take over... Eventually, of course, we will have to have some sort of plan to guide future development.

We need time to dream, time to remember, and time to reach the infinite. Time to be.

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.

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.

Christmas is a bridge. We need bridges as the river of time flows past.

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.

There is a kind of immortality in every garden.

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

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

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

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.

Catching something is purely a byproduct of our fishing. It is the act of fishing that wipes away all grief, lightens all worry, dissolves all fear and anxiety.

Almost all words do have color 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.

A garden is evidence of faith. It links us with all the misty figures of the past who also planted and were nourished by the fruits of their planting.