Zona Gale famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I don't know a better preparation for life than a love of poetry and a good digestion.
-- Zona Gale

#Preparation #Digestion
I can never understand why I should eat at one or sleep at eleven, if it is, as it often is, my one and my eleven and nobody else's. For, as between the clock and me alone, one and eleven and all other o'clocks are mine and I am not theirs. But I have known men and women living in hotels who would interrupt a sunset to go to dine, or wave away the stars in their courses to go to sleep, merely because the hour had struck.
-- Zona Gale

#Time #Stars #Sunset
Loving, like prayer, is a power as well as a process.Â It's curative.Â It is creative.
-- Zona Gale

#Prayer #Creative #Process
When you look at a corpse you can always sense your own breath better.
-- Zona Gale

#Looks
I tell you of all history the most beautiful product is the family tie.
-- Zona Gale

#Beautiful #Ties #Family Ties
The unexpressed is always of greater value than the expressed.
-- Zona Gale

#Values
Always he had wanted to tell somebody about his life, but when he had tried, his confidante had looked at him.
-- Zona Gale

#Women #Conversation #Wanted

What we have done in the past is not sufficient now to prepare our youth.
I think you can train yourself to block out some of that pressure and replace it with confidence. It's about preparation, and the more prepared I am, the less pressure I feel and the more confident I am. As your confidence grows, it's only natural that the pressure you feel diminishes.
So for us, the condition and preparation on and by which we are sheltered by that great hand, is the faith that asks, and the asking of faith. We must forsake the earthly props, but we must also believingly desire to be upheld by the heavenly arms. We make God responsible for our safety when we abandon other defense, and commit ourselves to Him.
The best match in the world will not light a candle unless the wick be first suitably prepared.
NECTAR, n. A drink served at banquets of the Olympian deities. The secret of its preparation is lost, but the modern Kentuckians believe that they come pretty near to a knowledge of its chief ingredient.
Losing yourself in the character opens you up in a way that no amount of precise preparation can.
Too hard for any frog's digestion,To have his froghood call'd in question!
Keen appetite And quick digestion wait on you and yours.
I don't know if I'd want to be comforted, if I'm being honest. If I'm being forced to eat soot, I want to know that somewhere else in the world, someone else has to eat soot as well. I want to know that soot tastes terrible. I don't want to be told that soot's good for the digestion. And of course, by soot, I mean beans.
Criticized for using formal mathematical manipulations, without understanding how they worked: Should I refuse a good dinner simply because I do not understand the process of digestion?

Zona Gale famous quotes

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