Mary Virginia Terhune famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

They [potatoes] are good for boys cold fingers at suppertime on winter nights.
-- Mary Virginia Terhune

#Winter #Night #Boys
Fruits each in its season, are the cheapest, most elegant and wholesome dessert you can offer your family or friends, at luncheon or tea. Pastry and plum-pudding should be prohibited by law, from the beginning of June until the end of September.
-- Mary Virginia Terhune

#Law #June #Tea
It would be idle to say that we were not, from time to time, aware that a volcano slumbered fitfully beneath us. There were dark sides to the Slavery Question, for master, as for slave.
-- Mary Virginia Terhune

#Dark #Volcanoes #Would Be
Not being ambitious of martyrdom, even in the cause of gastronomical enterprise, especially if the instrument is to be a contemptible, rank-smelling fungus, I never eat or cook mushrooms.
-- Mary Virginia Terhune

#Mushrooms #Ambitious #Causes
Woman--with a capital letter--should by now have ceased to be a specialty. There should be no more need of "movements" on her behalf, and agitations for her advancement and developmentthan for the abolition of negro slavery in the United States.
-- Mary Virginia Terhune

#Slavery #Letters #Agitation
Never deny the babies their Christmas! It is the shining seal set upon, a year of happiness. Let them believe in Santa Claus, or St. Nicholas; or Kriss Kringle, or whatever name the jolly Dutch saint bears in your religion.
-- Mary Virginia Terhune

#Christmas #Baby #Believe

I think winter wear is communal. You get some gloves and a scarf from a lost-and-found box, wash them, wear them for a while until you lose them. Then somebody else does the same thing
The problem of why God created the universe still troubles thinking men; but if we cannot know why, we can at least know that He did not bring His worlds into being to meet some unfulfilled need in Himself, as a man might build a house to shelter him against the winter cold or plant a field of corn to provide him with necessary food. The word 'necessary' is wholly foreign to God.
Recruiting Station was a story that came as the result of many anxious awakenings during many nights.
They took to silence. They touched each other without comment and without progression. A hand on a hand, a clothed arm, resting on an arm. An ankle overlapping an ankle, as they sat on a beach, and not removed. One night they fell asleep, side by side... He slept curled against her back, a dark comma against her pale elegant phrase.
I'm nothing you can catch now. I am black powder, I am singe, I am the bomb that bursts the night.
There's life outside Backstreet Boys that is going on and continuing.
But people who really know me, know that I am not a bad boy at heart I am a big teddy bear.
Girl, there ain't a boy in this town who can hold a candle to Beau Vincent with his shirt off.
In addition to the social pressures from the scientific community there is also at work a very human trait of individual scientist. I call it the law of the instrument , and it may be formulated as follows: Give a small boy a hammer, and he will find that everything he encounters needs pounding. It comes as no particular surprise to discover that a scientist formulates problems in a way which requires for their solution just those techniques in which he himself is especially skilled.
I always think back to the original movies and to those quieter moments where Luke is out in A New Hope, and there are the two suns setting. It is the equivalent, basically, of a farm boy dying to get out of his small town and do something bigger. It's those kinds of universal themes that ground this whole thing in space.

Mary Virginia Terhune famous quotes

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