You can't replace a tree anyway. Like people, you don't know how big they were till they're gone.

- George Ella Lyon

I just know when I quit looking to other people for directions, I found my own map.

- George Ella Lyon

A baby is a very heavy thing, any mother will tell you.

- George Ella Lyon

Good-bye is always hello to something else. Good-bye/hello, good-bye/hello, like the sound of a rocking chair.

- George Ella Lyon