Willa Cather Famous Quotes
"Where there is great love, there are always wishes."
"Only solitary men know the full joys of frienship. Others have their family but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything."
"Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again."
"There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm."
"She used to drag her mattress besider her low window and lie awake for a long while, vibrating with excitement, as a machine vibrates from speed. Life rushed in upon her through that window - or so it seemed. In reality, of course, life rushes from within, not from without. There is no work of art so big or so beautiful that is was not once all contained in some youthful body, like this one which lay on the floor in the moonlight, pulsing with ardor and anticipation."
I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.
"Winter lies too long in country towns hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen."
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person.
Willa Cather Quotations
"The American lives even more for his goals, for the future, than the European. Life for him is always becoming, never being."
Albert Einstein
"If I knew I was going to live this long, I'd have taken better care of myself."
Mickey Mantle
"Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man's power to live long."
Seneca
"The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy."
Ben Stein
Marriage is like signing a 356-page contract without knowing what's in it.
Kenneth Hartley Blanchard
"If you suspect a man, don't employ him, and if ypu employ him, don't suspect him."
Chinese Proverb
Questions are the creative acts of intelligence.
Frank Kingdon
"Courage is not afraid to weep, and she is not afraid to pray, even when she is not sure who she is praying to."
Black Hawk
"People move forward into the future out of the way they comprehend the past. When we don't understand something in our past, we are therefore crippled."
Norman Mailer
Spring is a true reconstructionist.
Henry Timrod