Lizette Woodworth Reese famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The old faiths light their candles all about, but burly Truth comes by and puts them out.
-- Lizette Woodworth Reese

#Light #Doubt #Atheism
Glad that I live am I; That the sky is blue; Glad for the country lanes, And the fall of dew.
-- Lizette Woodworth Reese

#Country #Retirement #Fall
I wonder at the idleness of tears.
-- Lizette Woodworth Reese

#Tears #Wonder #Idleness
None of us ever escape the first few years of our lives. They make a mould into which we are cast, and though it may be broken, and we turned loose, some remnant of it, some intangible evil or lovely thing or both, will remain with us, like the odor to a flower, or the smoothness to a piece of ivory. It is part of the immortality of youth.
-- Lizette Woodworth Reese

#Flower #Years #Ivory
A child without an acquaintance of some kind with a classic of literature ... suffers from that impoverishment for the rest of his life. No later intimacy is like that of the first.
-- Lizette Woodworth Reese

#Children #Suffering #Literature
For poetry, more than any other art, except music, has a compelling hold upon the spiritual side of life.
-- Lizette Woodworth Reese

#Spiritual #Art #Poetry
To hear that your neighbor was worse off than yourself was not an altogether unpleasant experience.
-- Lizette Woodworth Reese

#Neighbor #Schadenfreude
The sun pours out like wine.
-- Lizette Woodworth Reese

#Wine #Sun
Thrice blessed are they whose early years are spent in some countryside. The flowering and withering of the seasons, and every exquisite sound and sight - every lane, and pasture, and green corners and gnarled hollows everywhere, make them affluent with a treasure which neither change nor chance can steal away.
-- Lizette Woodworth Reese

#Blessed #Sight #Years

You work here [on the farm] simply without philosophizing; sometimes the work is hard and crowded with pettiness. But at times you feel a surge of cosmic exaltation, like the clear light of the heavens... . And you, too, seem to be taking root in the soil which you are digging, to be nourished by the rays of the sun, to share life with the tiniest blade of grass, with each flower; living in nature's depths, you seem then to rise and grow into the vast expanse of the universe.
My belief has come about in large measure because of the lives and examples of people I have known - not the famous, not saints, but friends and relations who have lived, and faced death, in the light of the Resurrection story, or in the quiet acceptance that they have a future after they die.
Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow. Delay may give clearer light as to what is best to be done.
I am in awe of the things you've been put through and the fact you can still light up a room when you walk in. When I look at you I see life. I see joy. I see my future.
It's okay to doubt yourself, it's okay to feel down; just never give up.
I don't want to speak for my movies; you could say my movies are just completely silly and dumb, but in the case of 'Idiocracy' and 'Borat,' without a doubt there is a really subversive and sophisticated assault on American culture.
As soon as by one's own propaganda even a glimpse of right on the other side is admitted, the cause for doubting one's own right is laid.
Pray and doubt; youâ€™ll do without. Pray and believe; you will receive.
Religions survive mainly because they brainwash the young.
Oh, that [his Thanksgiving Message] is some of Seward's nonsense, and it pleases the fools.

Lizette Woodworth Reese famous quotes

You may also like: