Quote

Christmas is a bridge. We need bridges as the river of time flows past. Today's Christmas should mean creating happy hours for tomorrow and reliving those of yesterday.

Gladys Taber

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Gladys Taber
Age: 80 †
Born: 1899
Born: April 12
Died: 1980
Died: March 11
Author
Writer
Colorado Springs
Colorado
Gladys Bagg Taber
Past
Christmas
Today
Yesterday
Need
Rivers
Reliving
Mean
Flow
Xmas
Needs
Creating
Flows
Time
Tomorrow
Bridge
Hours
Bridges
Happy
River

More quotes by Gladys Taber

Image
Old houses, I thought, do not belong to people ever, not really, people belong to them.
Gladys Taber
Image
The real evidence of growing older is that things level off in importance.
Gladys Taber
Image
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.
Gladys Taber
Image
I cannot imagine a cat in an Obedience ring, running around in the hot sun and doing things on command. For it would not make sense. Whereas a dog is tolerant of your not making sense and only wants to fix things so you are happy.
Gladys Taber
Image
Pride may go before a fall, but jealousy goes before destruction.
Gladys Taber
Image
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.
Gladys Taber
Image
My own recipe for world peace is a bit of land for everyone.
Gladys Taber
Image
Happiness is a thing of now.
Gladys Taber
Image
There must be hundreds of unsung heroes and heroines who first tasted strange things growing - and think of the man who first ate a lobster. This staggers the imagination. I salute him every time I take my nutcracker in hand and move the melted-butter pipkin closer.
Gladys Taber
Image
June in New England is like a lover's dream made tangible.
Gladys Taber
Image
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.
Gladys Taber
Image
Long cold nights mark November's return, grey rains fall, wind walks in the bronze oak leaves.
Gladys Taber
Image
There is a kind of immortality in every garden.
Gladys Taber
Image
Christmas is a bridge. We need bridges as the river of time flows past.
Gladys Taber
Image
November wind has a sound different from any other. It is easy to imagine the cave of the winds in some mythical Northland where the winds are born and the gods send them out to conquer the quiet air.
Gladys Taber
Image
The creative instincts, the love force must be nourished with every beat of our hearts until they overbalance the destructive instincts.
Gladys Taber
Image
Father was the most unreconciled taxpayer I ever knew.
Gladys Taber
Image
Dog lovers are a good breed themselves.
Gladys Taber
Image
the tentacles of today reach out like an octopus to swallow yesterday.
Gladys Taber
Image
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.
Gladys Taber