"I had to be intellectually satisfied as well……" — Ruth Pitter
"I had to be intellectually satisfied as well as emotionally because at that time of life one doesn't just fall into it in adolescent emotion, and I was satisfied at every point that it was the one way and the hard way to do things."
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13 Quotes by Ruth Pitter
Ruth Pitter has 13 quotes on this site.
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All in November's soaking mist We stand and prune the naked tree, While all our love and interest Seem quenched…
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What do we look for as reward? Some little sounds, and scents, and scenes A small hand darting strawberry-ward A…
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One's homesickness for Heaven finds at least an inn there; and it's an inn on the right road.
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Vain vision! when the changing world each day Sees some such lordly pleasance pass away; When the mere stripling knows…
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We go, in winter's biting wind, On many a short-lived winter day, With aching back but willing mind To dig…
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And I used to assemble the family to hear because I thought that they were so good that even from…
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To win the trophy of enchanting grace: Ranks of Carnations, to all ladies dear, Of whose sweet taste I write…
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I am much interested and honoured by what you tell me of C. S. Lewis.
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I would do any honest thing under the sun to know C. S. Lewis, and so am very grateful to…
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There were air raids at night. The factory was dark and dirty. And I remember thinking - well - I…
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Are you really going to see Lewis? One of the few people it's worth getting excited over, I think. I…
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It seems to me that in our lifetime we have passed from the wreck of liberal humanism to the beginning…
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More Adolescent Quotes
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one of 152 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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To an adolescent, there is nothing in the world more embarrassing than a parent.
— Dave Barry
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I always felt that anorexia was the form of breakdown most readily available to adolescent girls.
— Kate Beckinsale
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With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by its moral…
— Omar N. Bradley
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It's possible that I've matured as a writer, and I hope I've matured emotionally, but I always find myself revisiting…
— Diablo Cody
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I see no greatness in my self...I'm a simple-minded, child-like, insipid sort of moronic and kind of akward feeling adolescent.
— Neal Cassady
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Most poets in their youth begin in adolescent sadness. I find it more rewarding to end in gladness.
— James Broughton
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Life is expressed in a perpetual sequence of changes. The birth of the child is the death of the baby,…
— Arnaud Desjardins
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We must now brace ourselves for disquisitions on peer pressure, adolescent anomie, and rage.
— Charles Krauthammer
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One cannot properly appreciate the human realities so long as one labors under the adolescent delusion that people get the…
— Unknown Author
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We have the most prolonged adolescence in the history of mankind. There is no other society that requires so many…
— Ralph Nader
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At sixteen, the adolescent knows about suffering because he himself has suffered, but he barely knows that other beings also…
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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I do turn down things that I feel aren't right for me, like when it's some kind of adolescent thing…
— Selma Blair
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