"Sometimes," I ventured, "it doesn't occur to boys……" — Willa Cather
"Sometimes," I ventured, "it doesn't occur to boys that their mother was ever young and pretty. . . I couldn't stand it if you boys were inconsiderate, or thought of her as if she were just somebody who looked after you. You see I was very much in love with your mother once, and I know there's nobody like her..."
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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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Success in training the boy depends largely on the Scoutmaster's own personal example.
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See things from the boy's point of view.
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A boy carries out suggestions more wholeheartedly when he understands their aim.
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The Scoutmaster teaches boys to play the game by doing so himself.
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