Quotes About Observation

The sky sinks in the morning, this fact has been insufficiently observed.

I fear the man who drinks water and so remembers this morning what the rest of us said last night

For years I have read the morning paper and harrumphed. There's a lot to harrumph about now.

When you see a white guy at three in the morning on your beat in an alley, you kind of - "What's this guy doing here?"

A picture of Christ was hung in the back of a pulpit. When the minister rose to speak one Sunday morning, a little boy asked his mother, 'Mother, who is that man who stands so we can't see Jesus?'

Once I was beset by anxiety but I pushed the fear away by studying the sky, determining when the moon would come out and where the sun would appear in the morning.

I like to get up in the morning and see people.

I wake up in the morning, walk downstairs, and just bang on the piano and write about what's going on in the world around me.

It is true, I never assisted the sun materially in his rising, but doubt not, it was of the last importance only to be present at it.

When I get up in the morning I brush my teeth and go about my business, and if I am going anywhere interesting I take my camera along.

Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.

It was Kovacs who said "Mother" then, muffled under latex. It was Kovacs who closed his eyes. It was Rorschach who opened them again.

In April 1981, at my request, my mother went to a detective agency. She hired them to follow me, to report my daily activities, and to provide photographic evidence of my existence.

I learned...every part of the body; I would move each part as I memorized it. As a child, I would lie in the woods for hours, hiding and watching the animals move, how the mother taught the young.

Scrum is like your mother-in-law, it points out ALL your faults.

I was always an observer, even as a child. I could be satisfied to sit in a car for 3 hours and just look at the street go by while my mother went shopping.

Terri and her mother arrived. She was obviously a dedicated stage mother because she was loaded down with camera equipment, looking like a Japanese tourist.

Muggs was always sorry, Mother said, when he bit someone, but we could never understand how she figured this out. He didn't act sorry.

My mother-in-law has so many wrinkles, when she smiles she looks like a Venetian blind.

I feel about mothers the way I feel about dimples: because I do not have one myself, I notice everyone who does.

The joke used to be that in every Indian home, there is the mother, father, children, grandparents, and the anthropologist.

Tribe cats are named after the first thing their mother sees, but I thing this would lead to a lot of kits being named 'wall of cave', 'side of cave' and 'floor of cave

I became a writer because I am the youngest of six children. I listen; I observe. I'm camouflaged as a moth. Mothers are unseen. It helps me write.

One of my daughters is a competitive jumper, we live with horses, we have stables on our property. But I don't ride. I observe, and I worry.