"Pittsburgh was even more vital, more creative, more……" — Willa Cather
"Pittsburgh was even more vital, more creative, more hungry for culture than New York. Pittsburgh was the birthplace of my writing."
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138 Quotes by Willa Cather
Willa Cather has 138 quotes on this site.
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Where there is great love, there are always wishes.
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There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.
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The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.
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I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived.
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The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one's own.
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Sometimes a neighbor whom we have disliked a lifetime for his arrogance and conceit lets fall a single commonplace remark…
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Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.
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Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.
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Only solitary men know the full joys of frienship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile,…
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There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had…
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No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person.
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The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power…
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More Birthplace Quotes
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India is, the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of…
— Mark Twain
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Bigotrys birthplace is the sinister back room of the mind where plots and schemes are hatched for the persecution and…
— Bayard Rustin
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Home is one's birthplace, ratified by memory.
— Henry Anatole Grunwald
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Today I begin a new life. Today I shed my old skin which hath, too long, suffered the bruises of…
— Og Mandino
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The green prehuman earth is the mystery we were chosen to solve, a guide to the birthplace of our spirit,…
— E. O. Wilson
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We are committed to the Common Civil Code, Article 370 and building of a magnificent temple at the birthplace of…
— Unknown Author
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At its starting point in India, the birthplace of races and religions, the womb of the world.
— Jules Michelet
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If the earth is fit for laughter then surely heaven is filled with it. Heaven is the birthplace of laughter.
— Martin Luther
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Vulnerability is not weakness. And that myth is profoundly dangerous.... Vulnerability is the birthplace of connection and the path to…
— Brené Brown
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Can any man or woman choose duties? No more that they can choose their birthplace, or their father or mother.
— George Eliot
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Awareness is the birthplace of possibility. Everything you want to do, everything you want to be, starts here.
— Deepak Chopra
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Vulnerability is not about fear and grief and disappointment; it is the birthplace of everything we're hungry for.
— Brené Brown
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