Arithmetic Quote by Bess Streeter Aldrich

“And of course, everybody thinks it's just like it used to be when the Indians jazzed around and played 'You're it' with arrows.”

— Bess Streeter Aldrich

Things last so much longer than people.

— Bess Streeter Aldrich

You have to dream things out. It keeps a kind of an ideal before you. You see it first in your mind and then…

— Bess Streeter Aldrich

It takes a small town to keep you humble.

— Bess Streeter Aldrich

“Hours fly...Flowers die.”

— Bess Streeter Aldrich

Christmas Eve was a night of song that wrapped itself about you like a shawl. But it warmed more than your body. It warmed…

— Bess Streeter Aldrich

A person may encircle the globe with mind open only to bodily comfort. Another may live his life on a sixty-foot lot and listen…

— Bess Streeter Aldrich

“Hair, to Tillie, meant nothing by way of being a woman's crowning glory. It was merely, as the dictionary so ably states, small horny,…

— Bess Streeter Aldrich

“...Uncle Harry Wentworth's dollar was turned deep under the sod. But though the sun shone on it and the rain fell, nothing ever came…

— Bess Streeter Aldrich

When I was young I had no means or time, and now I have the means and time, I have no youth.

— Bess Streeter Aldrich

They are the most painful tears in the world ... the tears of the aged ... for they come from dried beds where the…

— Bess Streeter Aldrich

“I've tried to keep pleasant," Mabel went on. "You don't know how I've tried. I have that verse pinned up on my dresser, about…

— Bess Streeter Aldrich