Quotes by American Authors - Page 126

I do not take a single newspaper nor read one a month and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
Thomas Jefferson
Everything you read in the newspapers is absolutely true except for that rare story of which you happen to have first-hand knowledge.
Erwin Knoll
Newspapers have developed what might be called a vested interest in catastrophe. If they can spot a fight they play up that fight. If they can uncover a tragedy they will headline that tragedy.
Harry A. Overstreet
If a man bites a dog that is news.
John Bogart
What is valuable is not new and what is new is not valuable.
Daniel Webster
If there ever was an aviary overstocked with jays it is that Yaptown-on-the-Hudson called New York.
o.henry
Never reach out your hand unless you're willing to extend an arm.
Elizabeth Fuller
We never ask God to forgive anybody except when we haven't.
Elbert Hubbard
Never mind your happiness do your duty.
Will Durant
I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
Henry David Thoreau
Never invest your money in anything that eats or needs repairing.
Billy Rose
The body never lies.
Martha Graham
Never exaggerate your faults your friends will attend to that.
Robert C. Edwards
Never eat more than you can lift.
Miss Piggy
Deep experience is never peaceful.
Henry James
In the field of world policy I would dedicate this nation to the policy of the good neighbor.
F. D. Roosevelt
The Negro is an exotic of the most gorgeous and superb countries of the world and he has deep in his heart a passion for all that is splendid rich and fanciful.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
O black and unknown bards of long ago How came your lips to touch the sacred fire? How in your darkness did you come to know The power and beauty of the minstrel's lyre?
James Weldon Johnson
Not for myself I make this prayer But for this race of mine That stretches forth from shadowed places Dark hands for bread and wine.
Countee Cullen
When I would recreate myself I seek the darkest wood the thickest and most interminable and to the citizen most dismal swamp. I enter a swamp as a sacred place - a sanctum sanctorum. There is the strength the marrow of Nature.
Henry David Thoreau
The woods were made for the hunter of dreams The brooks for the fishes of song.
Sam Walter Foss
To him who in the love of Nature holds Communion with her visible forms she speaks A various language.
William Cullen Bryant
When I look at the future it's so bright it burns my eyes.
Oprah Winfrey
When all else is lost the future still remains.
Christian Bovee
Yesterday is not ours to recover but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.
Lyndon B. Johnson
Normal day let me be aware of the treasure you are. Let me learn from you love you bless you before you depart. Let me not pass you by in quest of some rare and perfect tomorrow.
Mary Jean Iron
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could some blunders and absurdities have crept in forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Today is a new day. You will get out of it just what you put into it. . . If you have made mistakes even serious mistakes there is always another chance for you. . . . for this thing that we call "failure" is not the falling down but the staying down.
Mary Pickford
I love the challenge of starting at zero every day and seeing how much I can accomplish.
Martha Stewart
Every new day begins with possibilities. It's up to us to fill it with the things that move us toward progress and peace.
Ronald Reagan
Whether one is twenty forty or sixty whether one has succeeded failed or just muddled along whether yesterday was full of sun or storm or one of those dull days with no weather at all life begins each morning I
Leigh Mitchell Hodges
Weather means more when you have a garden. There's nothing like listening to a shower and thinking how it is soaking in around your green beans.
Marcelene Cox
Don't knock the weather nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while.
Kin Hubbard
The next time it begins to rain ... lie down on your belly nestle your chin into the grass and get a frog's-eye view of how raindrops fall . . . The sight of hundreds of blades of grass bowing down and popping back up like piano keys strikes me as one of the merriest sights in the world.
Malcolm Margolin
For many years I was self-appointed inspector of snowstorms and rainstorms and did my duty faithfully though I never received one cent for it.
Henry David Thoreau
What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Earth laughs in flowers.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Flowers always make people better happier and more helpful they are sunshine food and medicine to the soul.
Luther Burbank
Next time a sunrise steals your breath or a meadow of flowers leave you speechless remain that way. Say nothing and listen as heaven whispers "Do you like it? I did it just for you."
Max Lucado
The AmenT of Nature is always a flower.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Nobody sees a flower - really - it is so small it takes time - we haven't time - and to see takes time like to have a friend takes time.
Georgia O'Keeffe
It was one of those perfect summer days - the sun was shining a breeze was blowing the birds were singing and the lawnmower was broken.
James Dent
Spring is nature's way of saying "Let's party!"
Robin Williams
The nicest thing about the promise of spring is that sooner or later she'll have to keep it.
Mark Beltaire
Nature is saturated with deity.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
As long as the Earth can make a spring every year I can. As long as the Earth can flower and produce nurturing fruit I can because I'm the Earth. I won't give up until the Earth gives up.
Alice Walker
Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
Kahlil Gibran
We lose our souls if we lose the experience of the forest the butterflies the song of the birds if we can't see the stars at night.
Thomas Berry
The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
John Muir
To the dull mind all nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.
Henry David Thoreau
Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns so each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry.
Richard Feynman
The sun - my almighty physician.
Thomas Jefferson
Nature tops the list of potent tranquilizers and stress reducers. The mere sound of moving water has been shown to lower blood pressure.
Patch Adams
The bluebird carries the sky on his back.
Henry David Thoreau
Climb the mountains and get their good tidings: Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine into flowers the winds will blow their freshness into you and the storms their energy and cares will drop off like autumn leaves.
John Muir
If you watch how nature deals with adversity continually renewing itself you can't help but learn.
Bernie Siegel
Look deep deep into nature and then you will understand everything better.
Albert Einstein
I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.
Walt Whitman