Susan Mitchell Quotations

We've been able to devote more resources to him because of that, but he has not had a particularly privileged upbringing. I was a single parent for most of his life. It's not like he had tutors and parents who could sit around and help him.

He loved the thrill. He loved the speed.

My mother would want to keep someone else from going through what she did.

Cyclists have a right to be on the road just like any driver. People on the road don't respect cyclists.

These recent seizures demonstrate that our officers are aggressively and effectively pursuing our traditional mission of narcotics interdiction.

I wanted to get them exposed to something they normally wouldn't do. They'll grow the food, they'll get to harvest it, and they'll get to eat it. This way, they feel a pride of ownership.

This is a wonderful victory for Milwaukee families after three-and-a-half years of struggle.

This is a quality of life and economic development improvement.

This is where moonlighting makes a lot of sense, ... Younger people have fewer family obligations at this point, so moonlighting works greatly to your benefit. It's the classic kind of case where moonlighting makes the most sense. It just gets more difficult the more you're established both professionally and in your home life.

It will be nice to get in there and see what they have done with the place. We kept hearing about all these other libraries that were getting facelifts, so it's great that we are following suit.

Our greatest fear is that we will lose the love in our life... that we will be abandoned, left alone, bereaved, misunderstood, deprived, hated and rejected....but we can never be OUT OF LOVE. We are love and if our minds separate ourselves from who we really are it is a painful delusion. Ego personalities, including our own, might separate ourselves from love but love never dies because it is what we are made of.

Sometimes it seems your ever-increasing list of things to do can leave you feeling totally undone.

Perhaps it’s true, my happiest moments are the anticipation of other moments still to come.

It's possible to keep drawing this moment out, any moment, hammering it thinner and thinner like beaten gold, like iced chablis, whipping it, whipping it to cheap perfume, each word blown to aneurysm.

Typing is an essential skill, but it can be painful. Some children just don't know where the letters are. Typing a three-page story, when they have to spend minutes hunting for every letter, can take forever. Yet we tend to assume that children can type, partly because quite a lot of us know where quite a lot of the letters are, so we assume that children do, too.

There is blood in Mr. Ervine's 'Carson'; he knows nothing about Sir Edward Carson, of course, but his teeth are firmly fixed in the calf of someone's leg, all the time, and he draws blood without a doubt.

There has been no lack of courage in Ireland; there never is, but even our courage has a fatal quality.

Ireland regards sex, when she regards it at all, with an entirely primitive and practical eye.

We in Ireland are gifted beyond most peoples with a talent for acting, and in Dublin especially, while scorning culture, which indeed we have not got, we are possessed of a most futile and diverting cleverness.

in my skimmings over fiction I cannot recall any writer so continuously implicated in his own work as George Moore.

[On writer George Moore:] ... I grew curious about Moore. Yet when at the rehearsal of 'Countess Cathleen' in some dark by-way of London, I was told he was present, I cannot recall any form, only an irritation in the dusty atmosphere.

Motherhood: the days are long, the years are short.