Quotes by Barbara Holland

Barbara Holland

A good-looking piece of scenery anywhere delights the eye and elevates the spirits. Some of us, crude creatures that we are, are merely excited; finer souls draw ethical and spiritual nutrients from the sight.

Eye

Sight

Spiritual

a woman may be called a wife and mother for most of her life, while a man is called a husband and father only at his funeral.

Father

Husband

Mother

Almost any dog thinks almost any human is the Great Spirit, the Primal Creator, and the Universal Force Behind the Sun and Tides. What human can resist?

Dog

Sun

Thinking

Anyone who has raised more than one child knows full well that kids turn out the way they turn out – astonishingly, for the most part, and usually quite unlike their siblings, even their twins, raised under the same flawed rooftree. Little we have done or said, or left undone and unsaid, seems to have made much mark. It’s hubris to suppose ourselves so influential; a casual remark on the playground is as likely to change their lives as any dedicated campaign of ours. They come with much of their own software already in place, waiting, and none of the keys we press will override it.

Children

Kids

Sibling

Are you seeing a psychiatrist?’ as a conversation opener would nowadays earn you a punch in the nose, but for fifty years it was a compliment. It meant, ‘One can plainly see you are sensitive, intense, and interesting, and therefore neurotic.’ Only the dullest of clods trudged around without a neurosis.

Interesting

Noses

Years

Cats vary so widely that all data is meaningless and the professional classifiers gnash their teeth trying to come up with even a single fact common to all.

Cat

Data

Trying

Coaches and headmasters praise sport as a preparation for the great game of life, but this is absurd. Nothing could be more different from life. For one thing sports, unlike life, are played according to rules. Indeed, the rules are the sport: life may behave bizarrely and still be life, but if the runner circles the bases clockwise it’s no longer baseball.

Baseball

Games

Sports

Dogwoods are great optimists. Daffodils wait and see, crouching firmly underground just in case spring doesn’t come this year, but dogwoods have faith.

Spring

Waiting

Years

However long you have a cat and however plainly he lays his life open before you, there is always something hidden, some name he goes by in a place you never heard of.

Cat

Long

Names

If we have a decent sort of cat to begin with, and have always treated it courteously, and aren’t cursed with meddling, bullying natures, it’s a pleasure to let it do as it pleases. With children, this would be wicked and irresponsible, so raising children involves a lot of effort and friction. They need to be taught how to tie their shoes and multiply fractions, they need to be punished for pocketing candy in the grocery store, they need to be washed and combed and forced to clean up their rooms and say please and thank you. A cat is our relief and our reward.

Bullying

Cat

Children

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Accidents

Airports

Argument

Art

Baseball

Biting

Bullying

Cat

Cauldrons

Children

Clothes

Data

Doe

Dog

Doors

Doubt

Drinking

Easy

Eye

Father

Fighting

Friendship

Games

Growing

History

Home

House

Husband

Interesting

Jobs

Joy

Kids

Kings

Life

Lonely

Long

Loss

Lovely

Medicine

Mother

My Friends

Names

No Doubt

Noses

Opinion

Ownership

Parent

Pay

People

Pubs

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Quotes by Barbara Holland

Barbara Holland

A good-looking piece of scenery anywhere delights the eye and elevates the spirits. Some of us, crude creatures that we are, are merely excited; finer souls draw ethical and spiritual nutrients from the sight.

a woman may be called a wife and mother for most of her life, while a man is called a husband and father only at his funeral.

Almost any dog thinks almost any human is the Great Spirit, the Primal Creator, and the Universal Force Behind the Sun and Tides. What human can resist?

Cats vary so widely that all data is meaningless and the professional classifiers gnash their teeth trying to come up with even a single fact common to all.

Dogwoods are great optimists. Daffodils wait and see, crouching firmly underground just in case spring doesn’t come this year, but dogwoods have faith.

However long you have a cat and however plainly he lays his life open before you, there is always something hidden, some name he goes by in a place you never heard of.

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