Ruth Sawyer > Quotes

“She believed that friendships, to begin well, had to stand on mutual information and lots of it.”
― Ruth Sawyer, Roller Skates

“It wasn’t just catching mackerel that made those dawns red-letter days for us. It was like watching the world being created anew to watch the sun come up -the orange streak changing to flames -orange, yellow, crimson; to watch the whole bay catch the glory of it – to watch the western sky take fire. People who don’t ever watch sunrises miss a lot of wonder.”
― Ruth Sawyer, Daddles: The Story of a Plain Hound-dog

“Children interested Miss Peters, especially when she found one that had not been run into a mold or cut out of a given piece of cloth and made up like a flannel rabbit.”
― Ruth Sawyer, Roller Skates

“While we waited for the eggs Peterkin asked, trying to sound casual, “This your hound-dog? What’s his name?”

Bill Monroe looked at us and the dog as mean as a man can look. “He’s ourn all right. Bein’ a plain hound-dog he hain’t got a name.”
― Ruth Sawyer, Daddles: The Story of a Plain Hound-dog

“..."You're getting a sort of vaccination this year. If you don't know it now, you'll find it out some day. But it's going to keep you from dying of a terrible disease."
Lucinda was filled with amazement… "What is the disease, Uncle Earle?" she asked solemnly.
"Snobbishness-priggishness-the Social Register. I don't care a damn what you call it, Snoodie, as long as you get your antitoxin before the disease gets you.”
― Ruth Sawyer

“A nose was a blessed thing to have on your face, no matter how stubby and unimportant it looked to others.”
― Ruth Sawyer, The Year of Jubilo

“Did you ever get up at crack of dawn – get your own breakfast and row out a good nautical mile into Penobscot Bay to watch the sun come up while you wait for a school of mackerel to swim near enough to be caught? It is a time full of wonder.”
― Ruth Sawyer, Daddles: The Story of a Plain Hound-dog

“It was pretty fishing. The brook was edged with fern and birch and sassafras and shadbush. The rocks had different kinds of moss. There were lots of birds, warblers, nuthatches and thrushes. Ever catch a speckled beauty of a trout while a hermit thrush sang? Well-it’s something you always remember.”
― Ruth Sawyer, Daddles: The Story of a Plain Hound-dog

“And if one had a sorrow, Maine was the best place to be.”
― Ruth Sawyer, Daddles: The Story of a Plain Hound-dog

“It is a funny thing about families and dogs – either they belong to each other or they don’t. If you asked Peterkin and me – and Daddles – we would all have said we belonged to each other. But if you asked the Monroes – the meanest, dirtiest and most shiftless family in Haddock Harbor – they would have said he was their hound-dog.”
― Ruth Sawyer, Daddles: The Story of a Plain Hound-dog