American literature Quote by Donald Hays Download Open image ““Serving time doesn't make you fit to do anything but serve more time.”” — Donald Hays ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare American literature Arkansas Baseball Southern-fiction Time
“You are not meant to serve time. Time is meant to serve you. Become the master of your now” — E'yen A. Gardner Copy Share Image
“You are serving someone for the rest of your life, not knowing a time must come when you must also be served.” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
“If you are benefiting more than those you serve, you are no longer serving.” — A. Hudnall Copy Share Image
“We believe that all those who are served should also spend time serving.” — Mercedes Lackey Copy Share Image
“One important key of success is to serve, and when you can't serve yourself then serve something other that value..” — Richard St. John Copy Share Image
“Whenever you get opportunity to serve, serve with all your heart.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
“serving really involves giving people what is good for them, not merely pursuing their approval and granting their desires.” — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
“Spending time being can be just as, if not more, fulfilling as spending time doing.” — Faydra D. Fields Copy Share Image
“Serving others means being willing to make sacrifices for their good.” — Jim George Copy Share Image
“Christians are the salt of the earth...Nothing grows where they've been.” — Donald Hays Copy Share Image
American literature was enriched with Men Who Loved Allison … Of the actual and eventual worth of this romance I cannot pretend to be… — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
“I have seen them stagger out of their movie palaces and blink their empty eyes in the face of reality once more, and stagger home, to read the Times, to find out what's going on in the world. I have vomited at their newspapers, read their literature, observed their customs, eaten their food, desired their women, gaped at their art.… — John Fante Copy Share
Janet Mock's honest and sometimes searing journey is a rare and important look into la vida liminal, one that she manages to negotiate remarkably… — Raquel Cepeda Copy Share Image
Héctor Tobar's accomplished first novel affords a perspective that is overdue and urgently needed in North American literature- -an insider's vision of L.A. as… — Stuart Dybek Copy Share Image
It is one of the paradoxes of American literature that our writers are forever looking back with love and nostalgia at lives they couldn't… — Anatole Broyard Copy Share Image
I think most Native American literature is unreadable by the vast majority of Native Americans. Generally speaking Indians don't read books. It's not a… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
Throughout African-American literature, the writer has, in a sense, been burdened by the necessity of pleading the case for the whole race. For example, writers of slave narratives tend to lose their individual voices, as they were expected to stand in for all other voices, which were absent. — Glenn Ligon Copy Share
“Don Raimondo tells me what he can’t tell them. “The emptiness on the surface of a wall left by a sold bookshelf is the deepest I know. I take away with me the banished books, I give them a second life. Like the second coat in painting, used for finishing, a book’s second life is its best.” He’s rescued the… — Erri DeLuca Copy Share
What had brought me to New York in the autumn of 1972 was a letter of recommendation written by Norman Mailer, the author of… — James Wolcott Copy Share Image
Here is one of the fundamental defects of American fiction--perhaps the one character that sets it off sharply from all other known kinds of contemporary fiction. It habitually exhibits, not a man of delicate organization in revolt against the inexplicable tragedy of existence, but a man of low sensibilities and elemental desires yielding himself gladly to his environment, and so… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share
“I reckon I got to light out for the Territory ahead of the rest, because Aunt Sally she's going to adopt me and sivilize… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Sociologically, politically, psychologically, spiritually, it was never enough for James Baldwin to categorize himself as one thing or the other: not just black, not just sexual, not just American, nor even just as a world-class literary artist. He embraced the whole of life the way the sun’s gravitational passion embraces everything from the smallest wandering comet to the largest looming… — Aberjhani Copy Share
