Mary Schmich Quotes & Sayings

“Don't waste time on jealousy. Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind.”

“Opening day. All you have to do is say the words and you feel the shutters thrown wide, the room air out, the light pour in. In baseball, no other day is so pure with possibility. No scores yet, no losses, no blame or disappointment. No hangover, at least until the game's over.”

“Understand that friends come and go, but with a precious few you should hold on. The older you get, the more you need the people who knew you when you were young.”

“I couldn't have foreseen all the good things that have followed my mother's death. The renewed energy, the surprising sweetness of grief. The tenderness I feel for strangers on walkers. The deeper love I have for my siblings and friends. The desire to play the mandolin. The gift of a visitation.”

“Chicago is constantly auditioning for the world, determined that one day, on the streets of Barcelona, in Berlin's cabarets, in the coffee shops of Istanbul, people will know and love us in our multidimensional glory, dream of us the way they dream of San Francisco and New York.”

“Good art is art that allows you to enter it from a variety of angles and to emerge with a variety of views.”

“Linda Tripp has shown that a true friend is an archivist, a biographer.”

“Like many women my age, I am 28 years old.”

“Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere.”

“Don't be reckless with other people's hearts, don't put up with those who are reckless with yours.”