Polly Horvath famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

You know what Sunday is, it's a day with a lot of potential for naps.
-- Polly Horvath

#Sunday #Naps
You can't replace one dog with another any more than you can replace one person with another, but that's not to say you shouldn't get more dogs and people in your life.
-- Polly Horvath

#Dog #People #People In Your Life
We all belong here equally...Just by being born onto the earth we are accepted and the earth supports us. We don't have to be especially good. We don't have to accomplish anything. We don't even have to be healthy.
-- Polly Horvath

#Support #Healthy #Earth
The library in summer is the most wonderful thing because there you get books on any subject and read them each for only as long as they hold your interest, abandoning any that don't, halfway or a quarter of the way through if you like, and store up all that knowledge in the happy corners of your mind for your own self and not to show off how much you know or spit it back at your teacher on a test paper.
-- Polly Horvath

#Summer #Teacher #Book
Suddenly I realize that everyone in the whole world is, at the end of a day, staring at a dusky horizon, owner of a day that no one else will ever know.
-- Polly Horvath

#Horizon #World #Realizing
No one really understands a family but the people in it and even they each understand it differently.
-- Polly Horvath

#People
The richness of our lives depends on what we are willing to notice and what we are willing to believe.
-- Polly Horvath

#Believe #Richness #Willing
Sometimes you get tempted to make something wonderful even better but in doing so you lose what was so wonderful to begin with.
-- Polly Horvath

#Sometimes #Wonderful #Tempted
At heart, we're all violent raging wolves, but in our actions we can be pacifists.
-- Polly Horvath

#Heart #Our Actions #Rage
I want someone who puts the whole ball of wax at risk. I want the kind of marriage where we would follow each other out into the stormy fatal sea or I'm not marrying at all.
-- Polly Horvath

#Sea #Risk #Want
There's something about sports. You can be setting fire to cats and burying them in your backyard, but as long as you're playing team sports, people think you're okay.
-- Polly Horvath

#Sports #Team #Cat
I am not in the body of life. I hover on the extremities. I float.
-- Polly Horvath

#Body
The only really interesting thing about someone that makes you want to explore them further is their heart, and Miss Honeycut has a teeny tiny pea-sized one and it takes you nowhere you want to go.
-- Polly Horvath

#Heart #Interesting #Missing
Is this what it is to get older, to have adventures you can no longer tell your family because you are moving apart from them?...Or do you grow up and have adventures you tell no one? Are some adventures only yours alone?
-- Polly Horvath

#Growing Up #Moving #Adventure
When you're a child you never figure a grownup is going to be jealous of you. It's the grownups who seem to have everything. Children give adults far too much credit.
-- Polly Horvath

#Children #Jealous #Giving

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