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Top 20 Lynda Rutledge Quotes (2025 Update)

Lynda Rutledge Quote: “Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened. – Anatole France, Nobel Laureate, 1921.”

1. “Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened. – Anatole France, Nobel Laureate, 1921.”

— Lynda Rutledge

Lynda Rutledge Quote: “I’d been there not six weeks, Dust Bowl dirt still coating my young rowdy’s lungs – and despite my God-fearing ma, that’s what I was, a dirt-farm rowdy, pure as a cow pie, cunning as a wild hog, and already well acquainted with the county sheriff, the dust layering my every breath leaving little room for the Holy Spirit to breathe on me.”

2. “I’d been there not six weeks, Dust Bowl dirt still coating my young rowdy’s lungs – and despite my God-fearing ma, that’s what I was, a dirt-farm rowdy, pure as a cow pie, cunning as a wild hog, and already well acquainted with the county sheriff, the dust layering my every breath leaving little room for the Holy Spirit to breathe on me.”

— Lynda Rutledge

Lynda Rutledge Quote: “Animals can tear your heart out. They can maim you. They can kill you dead on instinct alone and saunter into the next minute like it was nothing. But at least you know the ground rules with animals. You can count the cost of breaking the rules. You never know with people. Even the good can hurt you bad, and the bad, well, they’re going to hurt you but good.”

3. “Animals can tear your heart out. They can maim you. They can kill you dead on instinct alone and saunter into the next minute like it was nothing. But at least you know the ground rules with animals. You can count the cost of breaking the rules. You never know with people. Even the good can hurt you bad, and the bad, well, they’re going to hurt you but good.”

— Lynda Rutledge

Lynda Rutledge Quote: “It is a foolish man who thinks stories do not matter – when in the end, they may be all that matter and all the forever we’ll ever know.”

4. “It is a foolish man who thinks stories do not matter – when in the end, they may be all that matter and all the forever we’ll ever know.”

— Lynda Rutledge

Lynda Rutledge Quote: “The land you grow up in is a forever thing, remembered when all else is forgotten, whether it did you right or did you wrong.”

5. “The land you grow up in is a forever thing, remembered when all else is forgotten, whether it did you right or did you wrong.”

— Lynda Rutledge

Lynda Rutledge Quote: “Home’s not the place you’re from, Woody. Home’s the place you want to be.”

6. “Home’s not the place you’re from, Woody. Home’s the place you want to be.”

— Lynda Rutledge

Lynda Rutledge Quote: “Time spent with animals is added to your life,” joking how I’d live to be a hundred, if that isn’t a kicker.”

7. “Time spent with animals is added to your life,” joking how I’d live to be a hundred, if that isn’t a kicker.”

— Lynda Rutledge

Lynda Rutledge Quote: “Time heals all wounds they say. I’m here to tell you that time can wound you all on its own.”

8. “Time heals all wounds they say. I’m here to tell you that time can wound you all on its own.”

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Lynda Rutledge Quote: “I’ve been told since that there’s a name for something like it – a murmuration – a rare bird gathering that looks like a dancing cloud.”

9. “I’ve been told since that there’s a name for something like it – a murmuration – a rare bird gathering that looks like a dancing cloud.”

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Lynda Rutledge Quote: “The thing about knowing you’re doing something for the last time is that it takes the joy right out of it. I’ve done lots of things for the last time in my long life, but I didn’t know it.”

10. “The thing about knowing you’re doing something for the last time is that it takes the joy right out of it. I’ve done lots of things for the last time in my long life, but I didn’t know it.”

— Lynda Rutledge

Lynda Rutledge Quote: “Life is life no matter who or what is living it, boy – a thing to respect,” he said. “You don’t get that, then you’re just a waste of skin.”

11. “Life is life no matter who or what is living it, boy – a thing to respect,” he said. “You don’t get that, then you’re just a waste of skin.”

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Lynda Rutledge Quote: “That’s your first story, but it doesn’t have to be your only story. That’s up to you.”

12. “That’s your first story, but it doesn’t have to be your only story. That’s up to you.”

— Lynda Rutledge

Lynda Rutledge Quote: “The thing about birthdays is you’re rocking along drawing breath, living sunrise to sunrise, becoming who you’ll become without a thought put to it – until the day you popped into this world arrives. Then whatever happens, good or bad, you’ll forever mark it in memory along with the passage of ticking time, a date on a calendar forcing you to look behind with no way to change things and look ahead with no way to know what’s coming.”

13. “The thing about birthdays is you’re rocking along drawing breath, living sunrise to sunrise, becoming who you’ll become without a thought put to it – until the day you popped into this world arrives. Then whatever happens, good or bad, you’ll forever mark it in memory along with the passage of ticking time, a date on a calendar forcing you to look behind with no way to change things and look ahead with no way to know what’s coming.”

— Lynda Rutledge

Lynda Rutledge Quote: “For a mile, the Old Man and I rode in blessed silence, the giraffes looking back like they’d acquired a taste for gospel singing, with the windshield wipers slapping time.”

14. “For a mile, the Old Man and I rode in blessed silence, the giraffes looking back like they’d acquired a taste for gospel singing, with the windshield wipers slapping time.”

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Lynda Rutledge Quote: “God knows I was due a little Light Shining on me from Above, whether I believed in such things or not. Like most people, denying it never got in the way of relying on it. Here and now, older than old, I’ve lived long enough to believe then not believe, then believe and not believe more times than I can count, life being the bumpy ride it is. But.”

15. “God knows I was due a little Light Shining on me from Above, whether I believed in such things or not. Like most people, denying it never got in the way of relying on it. Here and now, older than old, I’ve lived long enough to believe then not believe, then believe and not believe more times than I can count, life being the bumpy ride it is. But.”

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Lynda Rutledge Quote: “It’s a strange thing how you can spend years with some folks and never know them, yet, with others, you only need a handful of days to know them far beyond years.”

16. “It’s a strange thing how you can spend years with some folks and never know them, yet, with others, you only need a handful of days to know them far beyond years.”

— Lynda Rutledge

Lynda Rutledge Quote: “Other people say grace. Me, I say thanks to what I’m eating. Its life for mine.” He paused, absently rubbing his sorry-looking hand. “Soon enough, I’ll be returning the favor even if it’s only to the worms. We’re just meat when it’s all done. That’s the natural order. What do I care where my meat goes after I’m not using it anymore?” he said, standing up. “Not that I wouldn’t mind being thanked.”

17. “Other people say grace. Me, I say thanks to what I’m eating. Its life for mine.” He paused, absently rubbing his sorry-looking hand. “Soon enough, I’ll be returning the favor even if it’s only to the worms. We’re just meat when it’s all done. That’s the natural order. What do I care where my meat goes after I’m not using it anymore?” he said, standing up. “Not that I wouldn’t mind being thanked.”

— Lynda Rutledge

Lynda Rutledge Quote: “Because if ever I could claim to have seen the face of God, it was in the colossal faces of those giraffes.”

18. “Because if ever I could claim to have seen the face of God, it was in the colossal faces of those giraffes.”

— Lynda Rutledge

Lynda Rutledge Quote: “Memories stick to things. Out of nowhere, something finds your nose, ears, or eyes and you’re on the other side of the country or world or in a whole other decade, being kissed by a doe-eyed beauty or punched by a drunken pal.”

19. “Memories stick to things. Out of nowhere, something finds your nose, ears, or eyes and you’re on the other side of the country or world or in a whole other decade, being kissed by a doe-eyed beauty or punched by a drunken pal.”

— Lynda Rutledge

Lynda Rutledge Quote: “The land you grow up in is a forever thing, remembered when all else is forgotten, whether it did you right or did you wrong. Even when it flat near kills you. Even when it invades your dreams and stokes your nightmares. Even when you run from it never to return, then find yourself headed straight back for it, and the best you can wish for is to drive through it with your head down and your wits about you, dodging the worst of it so you can get on with your young life somewhere else.”

20. “The land you grow up in is a forever thing, remembered when all else is forgotten, whether it did you right or did you wrong. Even when it flat near kills you. Even when it invades your dreams and stokes your nightmares. Even when you run from it never to return, then find yourself headed straight back for it, and the best you can wish for is to drive through it with your head down and your wits about you, dodging the worst of it so you can get on with your young life somewhere else.”

— Lynda Rutledge

Lynda Rutledge Quote: “I’ve tried to forget what it was like as a stray boy heading toward Cuz. I was barely human after the first wretched few days, and as time went on I cared less about being so. When your shriveled stomach’s aching with hunger, you forget all about your hungry heart. And you keep on forgetting it a little each day until a stray dog has more heart or soul than you.”

21. “I’ve tried to forget what it was like as a stray boy heading toward Cuz. I was barely human after the first wretched few days, and as time went on I cared less about being so. When your shriveled stomach’s aching with hunger, you forget all about your hungry heart. And you keep on forgetting it a little each day until a stray dog has more heart or soul than you.”

— Lynda Rutledge

Lynda Rutledge Quote: “In a long life, there is a singular moment when you know you’ve made more memories than any new ones you’ll ever make.”

22. “In a long life, there is a singular moment when you know you’ve made more memories than any new ones you’ll ever make.”

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Lynda Rutledge Quote: “In a long life, there is a singular moment when you know you’ve made more memories than any new ones you’ll ever make. That’s the moment your truest stories – the ones that made you the you that you became – are ever more in the front of your mind, as you begin to reach back for the you that you deemed best.”

23. “In a long life, there is a singular moment when you know you’ve made more memories than any new ones you’ll ever make. That’s the moment your truest stories – the ones that made you the you that you became – are ever more in the front of your mind, as you begin to reach back for the you that you deemed best.”

— Lynda Rutledge

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