My friend Phil has a theory that the Lord, having made teenagers, felt constrained to make amends and so created the golden retriever. — Mary McGrory Copy Share Image
Baseball has a special place in our hearts. It is the game that shows us as we would like to be. — Mary McGrory Copy Share Image
[On Italy:] ... the country where kindness to strangers is a religion, you can't turn your head without seeing something beautiful, and you can't… — Mary McGrory Copy Share Image
[On George H.W. Bush:] A man who wishes to lead the Western world should be able to find the right words, string them together… — Mary McGrory Copy Share Image
Dogs, bless them, operate on the premise that human beings are fragile and require incessant applications of affection and reassurance. The random lick of… — Mary McGrory Copy Share Image
Haldeman is the only man in America in this generation who let his hair grow for a courtroom appearance. — Mary McGrory Copy Share Image
You need the will to disarm the civilian population. If we can do it in Somalia, we can do it here. — Mary McGrory Copy Share Image
Anyone who has undergone home repair lately knows that your everyday artisan uses language so loosely and makes false promises so glibly as to make your politicians, even the presidential candidate, seem like a model of accuracy and rectitude. 'Be there Wednesday at nine,' the workman will tell you. It is a lie. He is humoring you. He says it… — Mary McGrory Copy Share
And the propensity of weak and empty people to follow a leader into the darkness from which there is no return is still flourishing,… — Mary McGrory Copy Share Image
Human sacrifice is much in vogue right now. The Republican right thinks that people who get on its nerves, especially women, should be sent… — Mary McGrory Copy Share Image
Appliances have idiosyncracies, just like us. Unfortunately they have picked up our less attractive traits - they are proud, spiteful, and unforgiving. — Mary McGrory Copy Share Image
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![“[On George H.W. Bush:] A man who wishes to lead the Western world should be able to find the right words, string them together in coherent sentences, and steer them to an intelligible conclusion. His sentences have the stuttering start of an old car on a cold morning. They never run smoothly. The…” quote by Mary McGrory](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/11b/mary-mcgrory-28645_able_on-george-h-w-bush-a-man-who-wishes-to-l_167495.jpg)
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