Mary Oliver Quotes

Animals praise a good day, a good hunt. They praise rain if they're thirsty. That's prayer. They don't live an unconscious life, they simply have no language to talk about these things. But they are grateful for the good things that come along.

Mary Oliver

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 10, 1935

Topics

LifeGoodLiveRainDayPrayer

I feel like when I play, I play tough. That's the New York in me. That's the street tournaments.

Joakim Noah

New YorkMeToughFeelPlayStreet

Love of learning led to monasteries, which became the cradle of academic guilds.

John Ortberg

LoveLearningAcademicLedWhich

I've always been thinking in three dimensions, ever since I started working with computer animation in the early '80s.

John Lasseter

ThinkingEarlyThreeAnimationBeen

I prefer for things to happen serendipitously, but honestly, I also love terrible pickup lines.

Angela Sarafyan

LoveHappenThingsLinesTerrible

Peace and commerce with foreign nations could be more effectually and cheaply cultivated by a common agent; therefore they gave the Federal Government the sole management of our relations with foreign governments.

Robert Toombs

PeaceGovernmentManagementMoreOur

I was indeed very critical of Mr. Trump during his campaign.

Mitt Romney

CriticalTrumpCampaignHisVeryMr

I have always wanted what I have now come to call the voice of personal narrative. That has always been the appealing voice in poetry. It started for me lyrically in Shakespeare's sonnets.

Diane Wakoski

PoetryMeVoiceNowPersonalAlways

It can be hard, swapping jerseys when you are losing.

Paulo Dybala

LosingYouHard

Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.

Thomas Merton

LifeLoveAloneValentine's DayFind

I'm interested in people's darker side, the ones that aren't easy and well balanced. The cracks.

Noomi Rapace

PeopleEasySideWellCracksDarker

People, as critical as it looks, we're OK. We are in control, whether we feel it or not.

Lionel Richie

PeopleControlFeelLooksCritical

Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence.

Lewis H. Lapham

BusinessSportsInnocencePerfect

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