"Every spring he vowed to quit teaching school,……" — Annie Dillard
"Every spring he vowed to quit teaching school, and every summer he missed his pupils and searched for them on the streets."
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260 Quotes by Annie Dillard
Annie Dillard has 260 quotes on this site.
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If we were to judge nature by common sense or likelihood, we wouldn't believe the world existed.
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Experiencing the present purely is being empty and hollow; you catch grace as a man fills his cup under a…
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We are here to witness the creation and to abet it. We are here to notice each thing so each…
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You empty yourself and wait, listening. After a time you hear it: There is nothing there...You feel the world's word…
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The way we live our days, is the way we live our lives.
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I wake expectant, hoping to see a new thing.
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I think the dying pray at the last not "please," but "thank you," as a guest thanks his host at…
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I think that the dying pray at the last not please but thank you, as a guest thanks his host…
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Learn punctuation; it is your little drum set, one of the few tools oyu have to signal the reader where…
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Why are we reading, if not in hope of beauty laid bare, life heightened and its deepest mystery probed?
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The more you read, the more you will write. The better the stuff you read, the better the stuff you…
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When you write, you lay out a line of words. The line of words is a miner's pick, a wood…
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More Every Spring Quotes
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one of 18 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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When will they make a tractor that can furnish the manure for farm fields and produce a baby tractor every…
— Unknown Author
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I was a homely kid with freckles that came out every spring and stuck on me till Christmas.
— Myrna Loy
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The difference between a gun and a tree is a difference of tempo. The tree explodes every spring.
— Ezra Pound
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When every autumn people said it could not last through the winter, and when every spring there was still no…
— Barbara Tuchman
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I would like to believe when I die that I have given myself away like a tree that sows seed…
— May Sarton
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Every spring is the only spring, a perpetual astonishment.
— Ellis Peters
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April is the cruelest month, T.S. Eliot wrote, by which I think he meant (among other things) that springtime makes…
— Barbara Kingsolver
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If God had a refrigerator, your picture would be on it. If He had a wallet, your photo would be…
— Max Lucado
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We say that flowers return every spring, but that is a lie. It is true that the world is renewed.…
— Daniel Abraham
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The incurable optimism of the farmer who throws his seed on the ground every spring, betting it and his time…
— Laura Ingalls Wilder
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Wherever they might be they always remember that the past was a lie, that memory has no return, that every…
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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For still there are so many things that I have never seen: in every wood in every spring there is…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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