Best 7 quotes of Maureen Daly on MyQuotes

Growing up crowds your mind with new thoughts and new feelings so that you forget how you used to think and feel.

Growing up is like taking down the sides of your house and letting strangers walk in.

It is odd how one can feel like someone else early in the morning - bigger, cleaner, so much more alive.

Talking about your home town is like talking about your own mother.

Looking up, Missouri saw a formation of low-flying P-47's on the horizon, heading up the coast from Naples...Sergeant Missouri laughed aloud. "They're sending us the Air Force, Chico, and we made it with a donkey," he said.

Sergeant Missouri crouched close to the ground, pulling up his collar against the bitter, gusting winds. Show me, he thought tiredly, I'm from Missouri.

Some mules just seem to be born with the hee-haw habit. Back home we call those fellows 'Missouri Nightingales'.