All Pat Conroy Quotes
- The safe places could only be visited; they could only grant a momentary intuition of sanctuary. The moment always came when we had to return… Always Came
- The only way I could endure being a coward was if I was the only one who knew it. Coward
- One of the greatest gifts you can get as a writer is to be born into an unhappy family. Born
- Reading is the most rewarding form of exile and the most necessary discipline for novelists who burn with the ambition to get better. Ambition
- Without music, life is a journey through a desert. Desert
- We old athletes carry the disfigurements and markings of contests remembered only by us and no one else. Nothing is more lost than a forgotten… Athlete
- The world of literature has everything in it, and it refuses to leave Leave
- The great teachers fill you up with hope and shower you with a thousand reasons to embrace all aspects of life. All
- I lived with the terrible knowledge that one day I would be an old man still waiting for my real life to start. Already, I… Day
- In families, there are no crimes beyond forgiveness. Beyond
- My soul grazes like a lamb on the beauty of an indrawn tide. Beauty
- One can learn anything, anything at all, I thought, if provided by a gifted and passionate teacher. All
- The pursuit of greatness means that laziness has no place in your life. Greatness
- The water was pure and cold and came out of the Apennines tasting like snow melted in the hands of a pretty girl. Came
- Every industry is going to be affected (by the aging population). This creates tremendous opportunities and tremendous challenges. Affected
- I've always found paranoia to be a perfectly defensible position. Always Found
- I don’t believe in happy families, Believe
- It is the secret life that sustains me now, and as I reach the top of that bridge I say it in a whisper, I… Bridge
- I was born to be a point guard, but not a very good one, Born
- Of the Yamacraw children, I can say little. I don't think I changed the quality of their lives significantly or altered the inexorable fact that… Altered
- We wait for the tortoises to come. We wait for that lady who walks them. That’s how art works. It’s never a jackrabbit, or a racehorse. It’s the tortoises… All
- There is no downside to winning. It feels forever fabulous. Downside
- To describe our growing up in the lowcountry of South Carolina, I would have to take you to the marsh on a spring day, flush… Blue
- Good coaching is good teaching and nothing else. Coaching
- The most powerful words in English are, 'Tell me a story.' English