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Beloved Quotes by Toni Morrison
- Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.
- My first-born. All I can remember of her is how she loved the burned bottom of bread. Can you beat that?Eight children and that's all…
- Would it be all right? Would it be all right to go ahead and feel? Go ahead and count on something?
- Unless carefree, mother love was a killer.
- Make a difference, does it? You stay the night here snake get you.
- Well, feel this, why don't you? Feel how it feels to have a bed to sleep in and somebody there not worrying you to death…
- And wouldn't you know he'd be a singing man.
- He wants to put his story next to hers.
- Not knowing it was hard; knowing it was harder
- Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
- Some things you forget. Other things you never do. But it's not. Places, places are still there. If a house burns down, it's gone, but…
- No matter what all your teeth and wet fingers anticipated, there was no accounting for the way that simple joy could shake you.
- Sifting daylight dissolves the memory, turns it into dust motes floating in light.
- Love is never any better than the lover. Wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly, but…
- Clever, but schoolteacher beat him anyway to show him that definitions belonged to the definers - not the defined.
More Beloved Quotes
- Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved. — Aristotle
- Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self. — Francis of Assisi
- A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as… — John Adams
- Why is it important that you are with God and God alone on the mountain top? It's important because it's the place… — Henri Nouwen
- All things are literally better, lovelier, and more beloved for the imperfections which have been divinely appointed, that the law of human… — John Ruskin
- Once for all beloved children, the surest, easiest, shortest way is by the Eucharist. It is so easy to approach the holy… — Pope Pius X
- Indeed, so deep is my pleasure in the work of the garden that, if there be a dimension after death in which… — Hal Porter
- If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do well for… — John James Audubon