Emerson Quotes

68 Emerson quotes by 51 unique authors

You are softening toward the young rascal because he is ill, and because he says he likes cats." "It is an engaging quality, Emerson." "That… — Barbara Mertz
I sometimes wonder what it would be like to be the respected patriarch of an ordinary English family." "Very boring, Emerson. — Barbara Mertz
It's tragic how few people ever 'possess their souls' before they die. 'Nothing is more rare in any man', says Emerson, 'than an act of… — Oscar Wilde
Emerson,' I said, choosing my words with care, 'it is a sheer drop from the cleft down to the base of the cliff. If you… — Barbara Mertz
Emerson:bite me Whitne:you wish — Meg Cabot
Emerson said, Do you love me? means Do you see the same truth?-Or at least, "Do you care about the same truth? — C.S. Lewis
I wouldn't know where to start." "He who chooses the beginning of the road chooses the place it leads to." "Thoreau?" "Harry Emerson Fosdick... — Kami Garcia
Emerson, I am trying to live, as you said we must, the examined life. But there are days I wish there was less in my… — Mary Oliver
The question is why one should be so inwardly preoccupied at all. Why not reach out to others in love and solidarity or peer into… — Barbara Ehrenreich
When people are ready to, they change. They never do it before then, and sometimes they die before they get around to it. You canâ€™t… — Andy Warhol
It is obvious enough for the reader to conclude, "She loves young Emerson." A reader in Lucy's place would not find it obvious. Life is… — E. M. Forster
The landscape belongs to the person who looks at it..." -Ralph Waldo Emerson — Ralph Waldo Emerson
We have learned the simple truth, as Emerson said that the only way to have a friend is to be one. We can gain no… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
My Mt. Rushmore of hero worship would include Ralph Waldo Emerson, Marcus Aurelius, Frank Sinatra and Barry White. — Karen Duffy
I went to Concord, a young woman from the backwoods, firm in belief that Emerson was the first of living men. He was the modern… — Rebecca Harding Davis
Emerson was the chief figure in the American transcendental movement, a fact that complicates all accounts of him in literary or cultural history. — Howard Mumford Jones
When he died, Emerson was thought of as the representative American writer par excellence, and his point of view was still so potent that William… — Howard Mumford Jones
Ralph Waldo Emerson would definitely be my homeboy. — Rainn Wilson
When I went to college, I majored in American literature, which was unusual then. But it meant that I was broadly exposed to nineteenth-century American… — Marilynne Robinson
My heroes are, above all, the great 19th-century Americans: Emerson, Whitman, Dickinson and the others. I love the way they think. — Marilynne Robinson

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