"We wait till now? Now, when we're old……" — Ernest Gaines

"We wait till now? Now, when we're old men, we get to be brave?"

— Ernest Gaines

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52 Quotes by Ernest Gaines

Ernest Gaines has 52 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Words mean nothing. Action is the only thing. Doing. That's the only thing.
But let us say he was (guilty). Let us for a moment say he was (guilty). What justice would there…
I still don't even know if the sheriff will let me see him. And suppose he did; what then? What…
Now, about that mulatto teacher and me. There was no love there for each other. There was not even respect.…
"What for?" I said. "What for, Tante Lou? He treated me the same way he treated her. He wants me…
"You going back," she said. "You ain't going to run away from this, Grant."
We looked at each other, and I could see in those big reddened eyes that he was not going to…
Don't tell me to believe. Don't tell me to believe in the same God or laws that men believe in…
You learn from music, from watching great athletes at work - how disciplined they are, how they move. You learn…
The Six Golden Rules of Writing: Read, read, read, and write, write, write.
I have learned as much about writing about my people by listening to blues and jazz and spirituals as I…
I like the sound of people's voices, and I think what a man says can very well tell what he's…

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More Brave Quotes

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Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate… — Aristotle
We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action. — Aristotle
To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death,… — Aristotle
I'm not funny. What I am is brave. — Lucille Ball
You can plan to be brave - it's even better if you just try to be brave. — Clive Barker
It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man. — Georges Bernanos
It is easy to be brave from a safe distance. — Aesop
Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave. — Christian Nestell Bovee
We are not afraid of nuclear weapons. The point is that if we had in fact wanted to build a… — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
There's something brave and touching about game girls of all ages keeping themselves smart in hard times - one thinks… — Julie Burchill
Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been. — Alan Alda
No one is so brave that he is not disturbed by something unexpected. — Julius Caesar

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