Littles Quotes by Willa Cather

The great fact was the land itself, which seemed to overwhelm the little beginnings of human society that struggled in its sombre…

— Willa Cather

The world is little, people are little, human life is little. There is only one big thing — desire.

— Willa Cather

She had only to stand in the orchard, to put her hand on a little crab tree and look up at the…

— Willa Cather

In little towns, lives roll along so close to one another; loves and hates beat about, their wings almost touching.

— Willa Cather

One January day, thirty years ago, the little town of Hanover, anchored on a windy Nebraska tableland, was trying not to be…

— Willa Cather

We come and go, but the land is always here. And the people who love it and understand it are the people…

— Willa Cather

The more observing ones may have seen, but discerning people are usually discreet and often kind, for we usually bleed a little…

— Willa Cather

It is scarcely exaggeration to say that if one is not a little mad about Balzac at twenty, one will never live;…

— Willa Cather

I was thinking, as I watched her, how little it mattered –about her teeth for instance. I know so many women who…

— Willa Cather

They ravaged neither the rivers nor the forest, and if they irrigated, they took as little water as would serve their needs.…

— Willa Cather

I wanted to walk straight on through the red grass and over the edge of the world, which could not be very…

— Willa Cather

But she still had that something which fires the imagination, could still stop one's breath for a moment by a look or…

— Willa Cather