Zora Neale Hurston Famous Quotes
"Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board. For some they come in with the tide. For others they sail forever on the horizon, never out of sight, never landing until the Watcher turns his eyes away in resignation, his dreams mocked to death by Time. That is the life of men."
There is something about poverty that smells like death.
"Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much."
"I want a busy life, a just mind, and a timely death."
"It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it."
"Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at de sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground."
Zora Neale Hurston Quotations
"With age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals"
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
"I consider being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill."
Samuel Butler
"Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself."
Og Mandino
We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.
Cicero
How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.
Henry David Thoreau
"Money is the root of all evil, but the foliage is fascinating."
Val Peters
There was never a great man who had not a great mother
Oliver Schreiner
Never look down on anybody unless you helping him up.
Jesse Jackson
The finest kind of friendship is between people who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it.
Sylvia Bremer
"Our quaint metaphysical opinions, in an hour of anguish, are like playthings by the bedside of a child deathly sick."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge