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Mary Lasswell Quotes

You can't keep a squirrel on the ground.

You can't keep a squirrel on the ground.

Mary Lasswell
Squirrels
Mary Lasswell (2016). “Suds in Your Eye”, p.114, Open Road Media

Children of yesterday, / Heirs of to-morrow, / What are you weaving? / Labor and sorrow? / Look to your looms again. / Faster and faster / Fly the great shuttles / Prepared by the Master, / Life's in the loom, / Room for it - / Room!

Mary Lasswell
Life, Hope, Children

I feel so small I could sit on a dime an' my legs wouldn't even hang over.

Mary Lasswell
Dimes, Legs, Unhappiness
Mary Lasswell (2016). “One on the House”, p.23, Open Road Media

Oughta be a law everybody has to take a trip every two years just to make 'em realize how good home is.

Mary Lasswell
Travel, Home, Two
Mary Lasswell (2016). “One on the House”, p.44, Open Road Media

I began to understand that all Texas is an eternal synthesis of past and present, superimposed one upon the other. It produces a feeling of being in two places at once.

Mary Lasswell
Past, Texas, Two
Mary Lasswell (1958). “I'll take Texas”

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