Katharine Lee Bates famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Not knowing all of the conventions of beauty, he [Tom Thomson] found it all beautiful.
Don't frown beautiful, you fascinate me.
Freedom is never given; it is won.
Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.
I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.
Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error.
Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work.
For it is the same whether you take it that the Earth is in motion or the Sky. For, in both the cases, it does not affect the Astronomical Science. It is just for the Physicist to see if it is possible to refute it.
You can't run forever. There's only so much pavement that the road makers lay down. After a while, the highway quits going north and it just turns into sky. And you can't go anywhere in the sky unless you have a plane or some kind of rocket.
There is extraordinary similarities between the Midwest in America and Europe in that there is this sense of vast, open sky and loneliness and cold.

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