Cat Quote by Sarah Orne Jewett

You must find your own quiet center of life, and write from that to the world.

— Sarah Orne Jewett

“This is a very small world; we are all within hail of each other. I dare say when we get to Heaven there will…

— Sarah Orne Jewett

It seems to me like stealing, for men and women to live in the world and do nothing to make it better.

— Sarah Orne Jewett

my friends plunged into a borderless sea of reminiscences and personal news.

— Sarah Orne Jewett

You never get over bein' a child long's you have a mother to go to.

— Sarah Orne Jewett

The warm sun kissed the earthTo consecrate thy birth,And from his close embraceThy radiant faceSprang into sight,A blossoming delight.

— Sarah Orne Jewett

A story should be managed so that it should suggest interesting things to the reader instead of the author's doing all the thinking for…

— Sarah Orne Jewett

There's some herb that's good for everybody, except for them that thinks they're sick when they ain't.

— Sarah Orne Jewett

I've found that people who look at things as they are, and not as they wish them to be, are the ones who succeed.

— Sarah Orne Jewett

There is something out of gear about graded schools and all that. Memory is developed at the expense of what in general we are…

— Sarah Orne Jewett

My dear father; my dear friend; the best and wisest man I ever knew, who taught me many lessons and showed me many things…

— Sarah Orne Jewett

In these days the young folks is all copy-cats, 'fraid to death they won't be all just alike; as for the old folks, they…

— Sarah Orne Jewett