Merry Go Round Quotes

• Life's just a merry-go-round. Come on up. You might get a brass ring.

  Mae West

  Life, Might, Brass

  Mae West (1967). “The wit and wisdom of Mae West”

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• Each generation must get on the same old merry-go-round, only disguised in a fresh coat of paint.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Generations, Coats, Paint

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• No longer riding on the merry-go-round, I just had to let it go.

  John Lennon

  Let It Go, Riding, Rounds

  Song: Watching The Wheels, Album: Double Fantasy, 1998

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• It is not enough to reach for the brass ring. You must also enjoy the merry go round.

  Julie Andrews

  Enough, Brass, Enjoy

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• What You Lose on the Swings You Make Up on the Merry-Go-Round.

  George V. Higgins

  Swings, Rounds, Loses

  George V. Higgins (2012). “Defending Billy Ryan”, p.78, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• You know, when I was nineteen, Grandpa took me on a roller coaster. Up, down, up, down. Oh, what a ride! I always wanted to go again. You know, it was just so interesting to me that a ride could make me so frightened, so scared, so sick, so excited, and so thrilled all together! Some didn't like it. They went on the merry-go-round. That just goes around. Nothing. I like the roller coaster. You get more out of it.

  Lowell Ganz

  Grandpa, Sick, Interesting

  "Fictional character: Grandma". "Parenthood", www.imdb.com. 1989.

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• When you're on a merry-go-round, you miss a lot of the scenery.

  Neil Diamond

  Missing You, Scenery, Rounds

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• The world keeps turnin'
  It gets merry like a merry go 'round
  It gets cold like a frozen winter
  Well I change like summer fall
  But I know love is all in all
  Seeds we're always sowing
  The grace is always blowing
  We've just got to lift the sail
  And we're bound to hit the shore
  We'll finally calm this storm.

  Trevor Hall

  Summer, Christian, Fall

  Song: The World Keeps Turning

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• Seasons change. So do cities. People come into your life and people go, but it's comforting to know: the ones you love are always in your heart. And if you're very lucky, a plane ride away.

  Michael Patrick King

  Change, Heart, Cities

  Sex and the City, www.satctranscripts.com. 1998–2004.

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• I have done the merry-go-round and I have ridden the roller-coaster. I have made my choice. I choose the roller-coaster. There is more risk when you choose the roller-coaster, but at least you will know you have lived.

  Larry Winget

  Choices, Risk, Done

  Larry Winget (2011). “Shut Up, Stop Whining, and Get a Life: A Kick-Butt Approach to a Better Life”, p.265, John Wiley & Sons

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• Everywhere I've turned somebody has wanted to sacrifice me for my own good—only /they/ were the ones who benefited. And now we start on the old sacrificial merry-go-round. At what point do we stop?

  Ralph Ellison

  Sacrifice, Wanted, My Own

  Ralph Ellison (2010). “Invisible Man”, p.518, Vintage

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• The merry-go-round was running, yes, but... It was running backward. The small calliope inside the carousel machinery rattle-snapped its nervous-stallion shivering drums, clashed its harvest-moon cymbals, toothed its castanets, and throatily choked and sobbed its reeds, whistles, and baroque flutes.

  Ray Bradbury

  Running, Moon, Cymbals

  Ray Bradbury (1962). “Something wicked this way comes: a novel”, Bantam

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• My travels have always been of the same kind. No matter where I've gone or why I've gone there it ends up that I never see anything. Becoming a movie star is living on a merry-go-round. When you travel you take the merry-go-round with you. You don't see natives or new scenery. You see chiefly the same press agents, the same sort of interviewers, and the same picture layouts of yourself.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Stars, Gone, Agents

  Marilyn Monroe (2006). “My Story”, p.181, Taylor Trade Publishing

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• Disneyland really began when my two daughters were very young. Saturday was always Daddy's Day and I would take them to the merry-go-round, and sit on a bench eating peanuts while they rode. And sitting there alone, I felt there should be something built, some kind of family park where parents and children could have fun together.

  Walt Disney

  Daughter, Children, Fun

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• I've never been to a hotel with a rotating restaurant on top, but one time I took my girlfriend to a merry-go-round, and I gave her a burrito.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Girlfriend, Humor

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• As much as thinking this upsets me, I'm starting to see that I need the merry-go-round much more than it needs me, and in the end my choice is to hop back on or get left in the dust.

  Wendelin Van Draanen

  Thinking, Dust, Choices

  Wendelin Van Draanen (2011). “The Running Dream”, p.82, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Authentic Christianity is a roller-coaster ride, not a merry-go-round.

  Mark Hart

  Christianity, Roller Coaster, Coasters

  Mark Hart (2013). “Tweet Inspiration: Faith in 140 Characters (or Less)”, p.9, Franciscan Media

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• The years between thirty-five and sixty-five revolve before the passive mind as one unexplained, confusing merry-go-round. True, they are a merry-go-round of ill-gaited and wind-broken horses, painted first in pastel colors, then in dull grays and browns, but perplexing and intolerably dizzy the thing is, as never were the merry-go-rounds of childhood or adolescence; as never, surely, were the certain-coursed, dynamic roller-coasters of youth. For most men and women these thirty years are taken up with a gradual withdrawal from life.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Horse, Taken, Men

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2008). “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Jazz Age Stories”, p.369, Penguin

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• World's flying like birds; my car's in flight. The city lights are spattered on my windshield like the fragments of the night. And I'm in flight. The sky's a wheel, a merry-go-round of wings and snow and steel, and fire. We'll tread the sky, we'll ride the scarlet horses.

  Tanith Lee

  Horse, Night, Fire

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• Eat, drink, and be merry is perfectly good in itself; nothing is wrong in it. But it is not enough. Soon you will get tired of it. One cannot just go on eating, drinking, and merrying. Soon the merry-go-round turns into a sorry-go-round - because it is repetitive. Only a very mediocre mind can go on being happy with it.

  Rajneesh

  Sorry, Drinking, Tired

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• My family originally lived in Brooklyn. Our first apartment was a little place above my father and uncle's hardware store in Coney Island. Now, don't get the impression that we were surrounded by merry-go-rounds, roller coasters and Ferris wheels. Nope, this was a little side street.

  Gilbert Gottfried

  Uncles, Father, Islands

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• There is no such thing as originality. It has all been said before, suffered before. If a person knows that, is it any wonder love becomes mechanical and death just a scene to be shunned? There is no absolute knowledge to be gained from either. Just another ride on the merry-go-round, another blurred scene of faces smiling and faces grieved.

  Clive Barker

  Wonder Love, Faces, Originality

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• I don't have any special passion for politics, it being a never-ending merry-go-round of bosses big and small, all generally mediocre. I actually find it boring.

  Elena Ferrante

  Passion, Boss, Special

  "Elena Ferrante: 'Anonymity lets me concentrate exclusively on writing'". Interview with Deborah Orr, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2016.

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• When I was five years old I was on a merry go round. There was a gunshot nearby. The horses stampeded. There I was running down the street on a purple wooden horse.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Running, Horse

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• It's no go the merry-go-round, it's no go the rickshaw
  All we want is a limousine and a ticket for the peepshow.

  Louis MacNeice

  Greed, Want, Tickets

  'Bagpipe Music' (1938)

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