Courage does not always roar.
Sometimes courage is the quiet voice
at the end of the day saying,
“I will try again tomorrow.”
Curse you Mary Anne Radmacher for coming up with words so memorable they are reproduced on a Quotable Magnet stuck on the side of my refrigerator. Yes, a Quotable Magnet from Quotable Cards keeps company on my refrigerator with an array of other magnets with quotes from Robert Frost, Carl Sandburg, J.R.R. Tolkien, Margaret Mead, Mae West and Davy Crockett. Plus, there’s a picture magnet of me and Teresa at Graceland. No words on that one – just musical notes in the background. Thank you, Elvis.
I love quotes. I collect quotes like some people collect stamps. I have a folder filled with hundreds of quotes I’ve saved through the years. Some of them are attributed to Anonymous sources, but most of them have the names of the people who wrote them or spoke them.
Would somebody please quote me? I don’t have to be immortalized on a refrigerator magnet or greeting card, but I wish I could write something quotable.
And for those of you who wondered what the Davy Crockett quote is, here goes:
You may all go to hell,
and I will go to Texas.
Good night, and good luck.
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About Sheila Morris
Sheila Morris is a personal historian, essayist with humorist tendencies, lesbian activist, truth seeker and speaker in the tradition of other female Texas storytellers including her paternal grandmother.
In December, 2017, the University of South Carolina Press published her collection of first-person accounts of a few of the people primarily responsible for the development of LGBTQ organizations in South Carolina. Southern Perspectives on the Queer Movement: Committed to Home will resonate with everyone interested in LGBTQ history in the South during the tumultuous times from the AIDS pandemic to marriage equality.
She has published five nonfiction books including two memoirs, an essay compilation and two collections of her favorite blogs from I'll Call It Like I See It. Her first book, Deep in the Heart: A Memoir of Love and Longing received a Golden Crown Literary Society Award in 2008. Her writings have been included in various anthologies - most recently the 2017 Saints and Sinners Literary Magazine. Her latest book, Four Ticket Ride, was released in January, 2019.
She is a displaced Texan living in South Carolina with her wife Teresa Williams and their dogs Spike, Charly and Carl. She is also Naynay to her two granddaughters Ella and Molly James who light up her life for real. Born in rural Grimes County, Texas in 1946 her Texas roots still run wide and deep.
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Hey, we could make a pact to quote each other and then we can die happy. So let’s wait a while for that.
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I already quoted you from your last post!! Tag – You’re it, Luanne!! 🙂 Take your time, though – I’m not in any hurry either.
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Hahaha.
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Let me think on this. I’ll bet I can come up with something!
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Ok Ann,
Take all the time you need!! You have your hands full right now with Cassie and Poppy!!
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Oh, I ‘m definitely a literature quotes fan, not so much philosophy as literature 🙂 But I might quote you one day too 🙂
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Oh, yes please do some day Cristina – I would love being quoted internationally – better than a refrigerator magnet!! 🙂 I’m not surprised you’re a quotes fan, too.
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🙂
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Okay Sheila Rae – I know you will not be surprised but the 2 quotes on my fridge magnets:
‘My favorite thing for dinner is reservations’
And
Life is uncertain – eat dessert first
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Hahaha PattiMo – you made me laugh! Of course, these don’t surprise me…You must moved from Kentucky Fried Chicken takeout in your earlier years to places that now require reservations! Same idea, though!! 🙂
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