"But happiness ... happiness grows at our own……" — Kate Morton
"But happiness ... happiness grows at our own firesides," she said. "It is not to be picked in strangers' gardens." ~ The House at Riverton"
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114 Quotes by Kate Morton
Kate Morton has 114 quotes on this site.
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Better to lose oneself in action than to wither in despair.
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I want to be independent. To meet interesting people. ... I just mean new people with clever things to say.…
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Reluctance to begin is quick to befriend procrastination. . . .
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It's special, grandparents and grandchldren. So much simpler. Is it always so, I wonder? I think perhaps it is. While…
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In real life turning points are sneaky. They pass by unlabeled and unheeded. Opportunities are missed, catastrophes unwittingly celebrated. Turning…
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Doors lead to things and I've never met one I haven't wanted to open.
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I write what I'd like to read and just hope that, along the way, others might like to read them,…
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True love, it's like an illness. I never understood it before. In books and plays. Poems. I never understood what…
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I love the structural part of the writing process.
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I simply love writing good stories, that's my passion.
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I'd pretty much given up hope of being published, so I just wrote the book I wanted to read.
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In retrospect, it seems like everything in my life led to me becoming a writer. I just didn't realise it…
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More Firesides Quotes
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one of 10 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Books -lighthouses erected in the great sea of time -books, the precious depositories of the thoughts and creations of genius…
— Edwin Percy Whipple
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Cats at firesides live luxuriously and are the picture of comfort.
— Leigh Hunt
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Tea had come as a deliverer to a land that called for deliverance; a land of beef and ale, of…
— Agnes Repplier
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Jackson possessed the brutality essential in war; Lee did not. He could clasp the hand of a wounded enemy, whilst…
— J F C Fuller
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When great causes are on the move in the world, stirring all men's souls, drawing them from their firesides, casting…
— Winston Churchill
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God sends children for another purpose than merely to keep up the race - to enlarge our hearts; and to…
— Mary Howitt
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Ourselves are cosmic and capacious beyond conjecture, and to experience some notion of the planetary perspective is the richest income…
— Amos Bronson Alcott
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Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.
— Douglas William Jerrold
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The smell of that buttered toast simply spoke to Toad, and with no uncertain voice; talked of warm kitchens, of…
— Kenneth Grahame
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