Mary Webb Quotes

14 quotes in 193 categories

• If you stop to be kind, you must swerve often from your path.
• We are tomorrow's past.
• It's the folks that depend on us for this and for the other that we most do miss.
• The past is only the present become invisible and mute; and because it is invisible and mute, its memorized glances and its murmurs are infinitely…
• Green is the fresh emblem of well founded hopes. In blue the spirit can wander, but in green it can rest.
• The more anybody wants a thing, the more they do think others want it.
• The well of Providence is deep. It's the buckets we bring to it that are small.
• Every time I meet a tree, if I am truly awake, I stand in awe before it. I listen to its voice, a silent sermon…
• Autumn is full of leave-taking.
• To many women marriage is only this. It is merely a physical change impinging on their ordinary nature, leaving their mentality untouched, their self-possession intact.…
• Give me good digestion, Lord, And also something to digest; but where and how that something comes I leave to Thee, who knoweth best.
• Autumn is full of leave-taking. In September the swallows are chattering of destination and departure like a crowd of tourists.
• Saddle your dreams before you ride em.
• Nature's music is never over; her silences are pauses, not conclusions.

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