And if you cook—that creation you lift from the oven goes right to the table. If you clean, you sit down at nightfall with the house shining and faintly smelling of wax, all yours to enjoy right then and there. You may work all day washing and ironing, but at night you have the delicious feeling of sunny clean sheets and airy pillows to lie on. It is one job where you enjoy the results right along as you work. #Home Quotes #Bird Quotes #Sparrows Quotes Source : Gladys Bagg Taber, Barbara Webster (1953). “I suppose I am a sparrow, a stay-at-home bird.” #Grief Quotes #Fishing Quotes #Worry Quotes
It is the act of fishing that wipes away all grief, lightens all worry, dissolves all fear and anxiety.” “Catching something is merely a byproduct of our fishing. #Selfish Quotes #Destiny Quotes #Thinking Quotes I can give some help to some people that is not vital to all the world's problems and yet, I think if everyone did just that, we might see quite a world in our time!” I cannot conceivably influence the world's destiny, but I can make my own life more worthwhile. “I resolve to be more patient, less selfish, cherish my friends, and in my small way help whoever needs help. #Dream Quotes #Time Quotes #Being Alone Quotes “We need time to dream, time to remember, and time to reach the infinite. #Hate Quotes #Home Quotes #Fishing Quotes If you don't catch anything, you hate to leave in case something might bite.”
“The curious thing about fishing is you never want to go home. #Running Quotes #Wind Quotes #Voice Quotes And then, in some unexplained way, we share it with others.”
If we attend to the music of the earth, we reach serenity. It is good to listen, not to voices but to the wind blowing, to the brook running cool over polished stones, to bees drowsy with the weight of pollen. “Perhaps, after all, our best thoughts come when we are alone. #Writing Quotes #Eye Quotes #Light Quotes She died on March 11, 1980.“Almost all words do have colour and nothing is more pleasant than to utter a pink word and see someone's eyes light up and know it is a pink word for him or her too.” They want desperately to perceive a vast gulf between man and the rest. Gladys Taber lived in Stillmeadow, a 1690 farmhouse off Jeremy Swamp Road in Southbury, starting in 1933 (summers only) and 1935 (full-time). The people of your culture cling with fanatical tenacity to the specialness of man. Her column "Diary of Domesticity" began in the Ladies' Home Journal in November 1937 "Butternut Wisdom" ran in the Family Circle from 1959 to 1967. The house was jointly owned by the Tabers and their friends Eleanor and Max Mayer. She married Frank Taber, and they had a daughter, Constance, which interrupted her academic career then for more than 20 years, she lived in Stillmeadow, her vintage 1690 Southbury, Connecticut, farmhouse, having commuted to New York City part of the time to teach creative writing at Columbia University from 1921 to 1926. Gladys Taber quotes from Top 100 Some of the days in November carry the whole memory of summer as a fire opal carries the color of moonrise.
In 1920, she received a bachelor's degree from Wellesley, and an M.A. She lived in New Mexico, California, Illinois and Wisconsin, and spent time on her grandfather's farm in Massachusetts. Gladys Bagg Taber was born in Colorado Springs on April 12, 1899, and spent most of her early years moving because of her father's work as a mining engineer. Gladys Bagg Taber (1899–1980), author of 59 books, including the Stillmeadow books, and columnist for Ladies' Home Journal and Family Circle. Wellesley College BA, Lawrence College MA
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