Quotes Around The Zodiac: Cancer

CANCER QUOTES
(June 21/22 - July 22)

June 21, 1912 Mary McCarthy:

The suspense of a novel is not only in the reader, but in the novelist, who is intensely curious about what will happen to the hero.


June 22, 1893 Aaro Hellaakoski, Finnish writer:

Artists! Unrest and fighting into your life, peace into your work.


June 23, 1936 Richard Bach:

Can miles truly separate us from friends? If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?


June 24, 1842 Ambrose Bierce:

IMAGINATION, n. A warehouse of facts, with poet and liar in joint ownership.


June 25, 1937 Roger Elliot

Your Cancer spirit is like a bubbling country river: flowing where it feels wanted ... The great paradox of your spirit is that you want to be a busy, practical person at an everyday level, but are really an introvert with a highly sensitive inner nature that can easily be hurt.


June 26, 1931 Mirkka Rekola, Finnish poet:

Once or twice I turn around in my memory and I am far away.


June 27, 1880 Helen Keller:

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.


June 28, 1946 Gilda Radner:

I base my fashion taste on what doesn't itch.


June 29, 1900 Saint-Exupery:

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.


June 30, 1917 Lena Horne:

In my early days I was a sepia Hedy Lamarr. Now I'm black and a woman, singing my own way.


July 1, 1804 George Sand:

But if these people of the future are better than we are, they will, perhaps, look back at us with feelings of pity and tenderness for struggling souls who once divined a little of what the future would bring.


July 2, 1869 Hjalmar S?derberg:

I believe in the lust of the body and the souls incurable loneliness.


July 3, 1947 Dave Barry:

If you want to take long walks, take long walks. If you want to hit things with a stick, hit things with a stick. But there's no excuse for combining the two and putting the results on TV. Golf is not so much a sport as insult to lawns.


July 4, 1918 Abigail Van Buren:

It is a sad commentary of our times when our young must seek advice and counsel from Dear Abby instead of going to Mom and Dad.


July 5, 1889 Jean Cocteau:

Never do what a specialist can do better. Discover your own specialty. Do not despair if your specialty appears to be more delicate, a lesser thing. Make up in finesse what you lose in force.


July 6, 1954 Louise Erdrich:

For a short while, our mothers' bodies are the boundaries and personal geography which are all that we know of the world. Once we no longer live beneath our mother's heart, it's the earth with which we form the same dependent relationship.


July 7, 1907 Robert Heinlein:

Always listen to the experts. They'll tell you what can't be done and why. Then do it.


July 8, 1621 Jean de LaFontaine:

Gentleness succeeds better than violence.


July 9, 1866 Ernest Dimnet:

Education is the methodical creation of the habit of thinking.


July 10, 1685 John Gay:

Those who in quarrels interpose,
Must often wipe a bloody nose.


July 11, 1767 John Quincy Adams:

Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.


July 12, 1937 Bill Cosby:

'What does your mother do?' I asked a girl of six named Laurie.
'She's in charge of everything,' Laurie said.
'And what does your father do?'
'I can't remember.'
'Isn't he in charge of anything?'
'I'll have to ask my mother.'
'Why not ask him?'
'Oh, he wouldn't know.'"