"Had I known but yesterday what I know……" — Carolyn Parkhurst
"Had I known but yesterday what I know today, I’d have taken out your two grey eyes and put in eyes of clay. And had I known but yesterday you’d be no more my own, I’d have taken out your heart of flesh and put in one of stone."
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Carolyn Parkhurst
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23 Quotes by Carolyn Parkhurst
Carolyn Parkhurst has 23 quotes on this site.
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What's it like, Lexy? You wake up and you feel - what? Heaviness, an ache inside, a weight, yes. A…
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There's no book that absolutely everyone loves.
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The simplest thing that can be said about any person, any relationship, is that it's not simple at all.
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I've always known that the best part of writing occurs before you've picked up a pen. When a story exists…
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Sometimes I wonder how we can be so sure what it is God sees. How arrogant we are, I sometimes…
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It's not the content of our dreams that gives our second heart its dark color; it's the thoughts that go…
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It's true, isn't it, that each of us has two hearts? The secret heart, curled behind like a fist, living…
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All this to say: I am forty-three years old. I may yet live another forty. What do I do with…
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I remember my wife in white.' It just made people weep to hear it...Everybody just thought it was the saddest…
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There would be hard times, but what did I care if we had hard times? The branches of my love…
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Because for most of us, suicide is a moment we'll never choose. It's only for people like Lexy, who know…
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The conclusion I have reached is that, above all, dogs are witnesses. They are allowed access to our most private…
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More Clay Quotes
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one of 325 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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My daddy wanted me to be a farmer; feel the smoothness of Alabama clay and become one of the first…
— John Henrik Clarke
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So says the most ancient book of the Earth; thus it is written on its leaves of marble, lime, sand,…
— Johann Gottfried Herder
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A very good drink they call Chaube that is almost as black as ink and very good in illness, especially…
— Unknown Author
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Yet some can be patriotic who have no self-respect, and sacrifice the greater to the less. They love the soil…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Love is the only bow of life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and Evening Star. It shines upon the…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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There are no happier people on this planet than those who decide that they want something, define what they want,…
— Esther Hicks
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Clay is one of the best things you can put in your body.
— Shailene Woodley
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We've the new hard-steel, though why they're all so hot to pay twice the price when men're soft as clay…
— Janet Morris
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Listen, my friend, there are two races of beings. The masses teeming and happy - common clay, if you like…
— Jean Anouilh
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Weak mortals, chained to the earth, creatures of clay as frail as the foliage of the woods, you unfortunate race,…
— Aristophanes
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[The internet] ought to be like clay, rather than a sculpture that you observe from a distance.
— Tim Berners-Lee
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Happy he With such a mother! faith in womankind Beats with his blood, and trust in all things high Comes…
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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