Top 40 Gladys Taber Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Being a good neighbor is an art which makes life richer.”

— Gladys Taber

2. “April is a promise of what’s to come.”

— Gladys Taber

3. “I suppose I am a sparrow, a stay-at-home bird.”

— Gladys Taber

4. “Long cold nights mark November’s return, grey rains fall, wind walks in the bronze oak leaves.”

— Gladys Taber

5. “Some of the days in November carry the whole memory of summer as a fire opal carries the color of moonrise.”

— Gladys Taber

6. “The curious thing about fishing is you never want to go home. If you catch something, you can’t stop. If you don’t catch anything, you hate to leave in case something might bite.”

— Gladys Taber

7. “We need time to dream, time to remember, and time to reach the infinite. Time to be.”

— Gladys Taber

8. “A house with no fireplace is a house without a heart.”

— Gladys Taber

9. “Pride may go before a fall, but jealousy goes before destruction.”

— Gladys Taber

10. “Christmas is a bridge. We need bridges as the river of time flows past. Today’s Christmas should mean creating happy hours for tomorrow and reliving those of yesterday.”

— Gladys Taber

11. “November wind has a sound different from any other. It is easy to imagine the cave of the winds in some mythical Northland where the winds are born and the gods send them out to conquer the quiet air.”

— Gladys Taber

12. “As long as you have a window, life is exciting.”

— Gladys Taber

13. “Old houses, I thought, do not belong to people ever, not really, people belong to them.”

— Gladys Taber

14. “Almost all words do have colour and nothing is more pleasant than to utter a pink word and see someone’s eyes light up and know it is a pink word for him or her too.”

— Gladys Taber

15. “Life is a process of discovery, of new perceptions.”

— Gladys Taber

16. “I know of nothing to compare with the welcome a dog gives you when you come home.”

— Gladys Taber

17. “Most cats feel that bird-catching is their duty; the instinct goes back to prehistoric times. Amber keeps in practice by chasing moths.”

— Gladys Taber

18. “Faith is a curious thing. It must be renewed; it has its own spring.”

— Gladys Taber

19. “The creative instincts, the love force must be nourished with every beat of our hearts until they overbalance the destructive instincts.”

— Gladys Taber

20. “Perhaps what makes friendship and love exciting is the continuing discovery of another personality.”

— Gladys Taber

21. “What would happen if all the populations on the planet simply refused to fight human beings they did not even know?”

— Gladys Taber

22. “I love both the way a dog looks up to me and a cat condescends to me.”

— Gladys Taber

23. “I cannot imagine a cat in an Obedience ring, running around in the hot sun and doing things on command. For it would not make sense. Whereas a dog is tolerant of your not making sense and only wants to fix things so you are happy.”

— Gladys Taber

24. “There must be hundreds of unsung heroes and heroines who first tasted strange things growing – and think of the man who first ate a lobster. This staggers the imagination. I salute him every time I take my nutcracker in hand and move the melted-butter pipkin closer.”

— Gladys Taber

25. “When Father smiled, it was like the sun coming out, and spring and summer in your heart.”

— Gladys Taber

26. “Well, any love makes us vulnerable. Whatever we love will give the gift of pain somewhere along the road. But who would live sealed in spiritual cellophane just to keep from ever being hurt? There are a few people like that. I’m sorry for them. I think they are as good as dead.”

— Gladys Taber

27. “There is a kind of immortality in every garden.”

— Gladys Taber

28. “Nothing makes a house cozier than cats.”

— Gladys Taber

29. “Traveling is all very well if you can get home at night. I would be willing to go around the world if I came back in time to light the candles and set the table for supper.”

— Gladys Taber

30. “A good recipe for a human reducing breakfast is a lot of good things to eat, and three spaniels and two cats to eat with.”

— Gladys Taber

31. “Catching something is merely a byproduct of our fishing. It is the act of fishing that wipes away all grief, lightens all worry, dissolves all fear and anxiety.”

— Gladys Taber

32. “Christmas is a bridge. We need bridges as the river of time flows past.”

— Gladys Taber

33. “My own recipe for world peace is a bit of land for everyone.”

— Gladys Taber

34. “June in New England is like a lover’s dream made tangible.”

— Gladys Taber

35. “Indian summer comes gently, folds over the hills and valleys as softly as the fall of a leaf on a windless day. It is always unexpected. After a sharp cold spell, we wake one morning and look out and the very air is golden. The sky has a delicate dreamy color, and the yet unfallen leaves on the bravest trees have a secure look, as if they would never, never fall.”

— Gladys Taber

36. “Christmas is a kindling of new fires.”

— Gladys Taber

37. “Dog lovers are a good breed themselves.”

— Gladys Taber

38. “Happiness is a thing of now.”

— Gladys Taber

39. “Father was the most unreconciled taxpayer I ever knew.”

— Gladys Taber

40. “Cat lovers know that every cat is remarkable.”

— Gladys Taber

41. “Whoever decided that comic valentines were a good idea should have been sent away to think it over.”

— Gladys Taber

42. “A cat is, by and large, sophisticated and complex, and capable of creating three-act plays around any single piece of action.”

— Gladys Taber

43. “The real evidence of growing older is that things level off in importance.”

— Gladys Taber

44. “Americans tend to believe they can do anything with or without any training or experience.”

— Gladys Taber

45. “Above all birds, the hummingbird gives me that feeling of the mystery and the wonder of life. Such a vibrant little body, such color, and wings that beat faster than thought. I felt as if I could watch the whole of life if I could hold a hummingbird in my hand once.”

— Gladys Taber

46. “No one can believe that God is not good when the August gardens are in their heyday.”

— Gladys Taber