Raynah Thomas:
"I also decorate my simnel cakes with 12 marzipan balls on the grounds that 2,000 years is a bit long to hold a grudge."
Raynah Thomas:
"Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein."
Raynah Thomas:
"The vast possibilities of our great future will become realities only if we make ourselves responsible for that future."
Raynah Thomas:
"For saints have hands that pilgrims' hands do touch, And palm to palm is holy palmers' kiss."
Raynah Thomas:
"With rushing winds and gloomy skies The dark and stubborn Winter dies: Far-off, unseen, Spring faintly cries, Bidding her earliest child arise; March!"
Raynah Thomas:
"The golden age is before us, not behind us."
Raynah Thomas:
"I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it."
Raynah Thomas:
"In a big family the first child is kind of like the first pancake. If it's not perfect, that's okay, there are a lot more coming along."
Raynah Thomas:
"Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing."
Raynah Thomas:
"If a man finds himself with bread in both hands, he should exchange one loaf for some flowers of the narcissus, because the loaf feeds the body, but the flowers feed the soul"
Raynah Thomas:
"Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything."
Raynah Thomas:
"It's true I don't tolerate fools but then they don't tolerate me, so I am spiky."
Raynah Thomas:
"Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain."
Raynah Thomas:
"That's the thing with magic. You've got to know it's still here, all around us, or it just stays invisible for you."
Raynah Thomas:
"It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade."
Raynah Thomas:
"Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher."
Raynah Thomas:
"Nobody sees a flower really; it is so small. We haven't time, and to see takes time..."
Raynah Thomas:
"I believe in God, only I spell it 'Nature'."
Raynah Thomas:
"Guess who just got back today? Them wild-eyed boys that had been away..."
Raynah Thomas:
"The earth is cool and dark, and far below, new life begins."
Raynah Thomas:
"I believe that this life is not all; neither the beginning nor the end."
Raynah Thomas:
"You cannot forget if you would those golden kisses all over the cheeks of the meadow, queerly called dandelions."
Raynah Thomas:
"Daffodils that come before the swallow dares, and takes the winds of March with beauty."
Raynah Thomas:
"If you wish to keep as well as possible, the less you think about your health the better."
Raynah Thomas:
"Mother nature talks, Whispering her thoughts"
Raynah Thomas:
"Thousands of years ago, cats were worshipped as gods. Cats have never forgotten this."
Raynah Thomas:
"When life knocks you down, try to land on your back. Because if you can look up, you can get up. Let your reason get you back up."
Raynah Thomas:
"Tea is drunk to forget the din of the world."
Raynah Thomas:
"There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."
Raynah Thomas:
"...the pansy freaked with jet, The glowing violet..."