Annie Fellows Johnston famous quotes

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The world looks very different to me now at twenty. I have outgrown my early opinions and ideals with my short dresses, just as Mrs. Walton said we would. Now the critics can say 'Thou waitest till thy woman's fingers wrought the best that lay within thy woman's heart.'
-- Annie Fellows Johnston

#Heart #Ambition #Twenties
Remember, men need laughter sometimes more than food.
-- Annie Fellows Johnston

#Laughter #Men #Needs
The little dog-eared books in the meeting-house proved poor reading ... So many of them were about unnaturally good children who never did wrong, and unnaturally bad children who never did right. At the end there was always the word MORAL, in big capital letters, as if the readers were supposed to be too blind to find it for themselves, and it had to be put directly across the path for them to stumble over.
-- Annie Fellows Johnston

#Education #Dog #Children
That's all that death is ... Just a going away into another country ... Only the separation is harder to bear because there can be no letters to bridge the silence.
-- Annie Fellows Johnston

#Death #Country #Bridges
we are just as apt to meet the grandmothers as the wolves when we go traveling.
-- Annie Fellows Johnston

#Travel #Grandmother
I've come to believe that every one who reaches the best that life holds for him reaches it through some Desert of Waiting.
-- Annie Fellows Johnston

#Believe #Waiting #Desert
I have to be by myself when I write, and I never know how long it will take. It is like making butter. Sometimes it will come in a few minutes, and sometimes I have to churn away for hours.
-- Annie Fellows Johnston

#Writing #Long #Sometimes
To callow wings no flight is too high to attempt. At sixteen all things are possible.
-- Annie Fellows Johnston

#Wings #Sixteen #Youth

His folly has not fellow Beneath the blue of day That gives to man or woman His heart and soul away.
With rue my heart is laden For golden friends I had, For many a rose-lipped maiden And many a lightfoot lad.
Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.
Mr. President, prime ministers, let us have ambitions: ambitions to move beyond the violence and occupation, to the day when two states, Palestine and Israel, can live together side by side in peace and security.
Let the average man be put to the proof on the question of who is above, and his true position will be exposed. Let him be forced into making a choice between God and money, between God and men, between God and personal ambition, God and self, God and human love, and God will take second place every time.
I think, for the majority of my twenties, I was always so concerned with what I didn't have, or what I still wanted.
What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable.
You don't spend twenty years of your life in the service and not have a warm, nostalgic feeling left in you. It's a small service, and there's a lot of esprit de corps.
Only another twenty thousand or so days of this to go.
He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one.

Annie Fellows Johnston famous quotes

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