Culture Quote by Mary Antin

Religion was fading into the background. He had shovelled away all the beliefs that would hamper him, had cleared the ground, and come more…

— Anonymous

He was always striving to attain it. The life that was so swiftly expanding within him, urged him continually toward the wall of light.…

— Jack London

“Therefore the Way that is sagely within and kingly without has fallen into darkness and is no longer clearly perceived, has become shrouded and…

— Zhuangzi

He had realised that most vital of humanities. he had touched lives. And he had raised three boys that no one had wanted into…

— Nora Roberts

He became absorbed beyond mere happiness as he felt himself exercising control over living things. He talked to them, urging them, ordering them. Driven…

— William Golding

“He had given himself over to endless wanderings, a life of migration from life-to-life, albeit not necessarily a set of migrations one must view…

— Ashim Shanker

There was no God in his heart, he knew; his ideas were still in riot; there was ever the pain of memory; the regret…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

He came by a leap to the goal of purpose, not by the toilsome steps of reason. On the instant his headlong spirit declared…

— Gilbert Parker

What was more needed by this old man who divided the leisure hours of his life, where he had so little leisure, between gardening…

— Victor Hugo

At a certain stage in his evolution, man himself had been able to lay hold upon a higher order of things, which raised him…

— Alfred Noyes

There was hope in him, and soon perhaps the outline of his journey would take form.

— Carson McCullers

He wanted to care, and he could not care. For he had gone away and he could never go back anymore. The gates were…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald