"The present was an egg laid by the……" — Zora Neale Hurston

"The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell."

— Zora Neale Hurston

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166 Quotes by Zora Neale Hurston

Zora Neale Hurston has 166 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Among the thousand white persons, I am a dark rock surged upon, and overswept.
A great state is a well-blended mash of something of all the people and all of none of the people.…
We must learn to be honest with ourselves, and know our shortcomings. We will acquire cohesion but we will pay…
Women forget all the things they don't want to remember, and remember everything they don't want to forget.
There is something about poverty that smells like death. Dead dreams dropping off the heart like leaves in a dry…
Light came to me when I realized that I did not have to consider any racial group as a whole.…
I have known the joy and pain of friendship. I have served and been served. I have made some good…
Now, suppose a Negro does something really magnificent, and I glory, not in the benefit to mankind, but in the…
I feel most colored when I am thrown against a sharp white background.
If you haven't got it, you can't show it. If you have got it, you can't hide it.
I regret all of my books.
Someone is always at my elbow reminding me that I am the grand-daughter of slaves. It fails to register depression…

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Once in a while, I'll slip and get off my vegan diet and have egg whites in the morning, that's… — Travis Barker
I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg. — James M. Barrie
It is a well-documented fact that guys will not ask for directions. This is a biological thing. This is why… — Dave Barry
Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away. — Walter Benjamin
Football is a fertility festival. Eleven sperm trying to get into the egg. I feel sorry for the goalkeeper. — Bjork
A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg. — Samuel Butler
I always run in the morning on an empty stomach, and I'll go through a bottle and a half of… — Drew Carey
The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird… — James Allen
When I got to France I realized I didn't know very much about food at all. I'd never had a… — Julia Child
Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg. — Hans Christian Andersen
An irrefutable proof that such single-celled primaeval animals really existed as the direct ancestors of Man, is furnished according to… — Ernst Haeckel
I have devoted my whole life to the study of Nature, and yet a single sentence may express all that… — Louis Agassiz

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