"If there can be such a thing as……" — Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
"If there can be such a thing as instinctual memory, the consciousness of land and water must lie deeper in the core of us than any knowledge of our fellow beings. We were bred of the earth before we were born of our mothers. Once born, we can live without our mothers or our fathers or any other kin or friend, or even human love. We cannot live without the earth or apart from it, and something is shriveled in mans heart when he turns away from it and concerns himself only with the affairs of men."
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Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
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26 Quotes by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
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Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
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She lives a sophisticate's life among worldly people. At the slightest excuse she steps out of civilization, naked and relieved,…
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Sift each of us through the great sieve of circumstance and you have a residue, great or small as the…
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Magic birds were dancing in the mystic marsh. The grass swayed with them, and the shallow waters, and the earth…
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It seemed a strange thing to him, when earth was earth and rain was rain, that scrawny pines should grow…
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Cross Creek belongs to the wind and the rain, to the sun and the seasons, to the cosmic secrecy of…
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A woman never forgets the men she could have had; a man, the women he couldn't
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When a wave of love takes over a human being... such an exaltation takes him that he knows he has…
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...a pie so delicate, so luscious, that I hope to be propped up on my dying bed and fed a…
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The test of beauty is whether it can survive close knowledge.
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No man should have proprietary rights over land who does not use that land wisely and lovingly.
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The individual man is transitory, but the pulse of life and of growth goes on after he is gone, buried…
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The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation…
— Hannah Arendt
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The proportion between the velocity with which men or animals move, and the weights they carry, is a matter of…
— Charles Babbage
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The humanitarian would, of course, have us meddle in foreign affairs as part of his program of world service.
— Irving Babbitt
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Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
— Honore de Balzac
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I wanted to be a neurologist. That seemed to be the most difficult, most intriguing, and the most important aspect…
— Roger Bannister
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Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all…
— Saint Basil
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Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one…
— Arnold Bennett
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I started my music career at 18 and for a long while I let other people handle my affairs.
— Sophie Ellis Bextor
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Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
— Ambrose Bierce
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A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Alas for the affairs of men! When they are fortunate you might compare them to a shadow; and if they…
— Aeschylus
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