Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

Some roses grow through concrete. Remember that.

Brandi L. Bates

I was too much of a Bronx kid to read Emerson or Hawthorne.

Let every man shovel out his own snow, and the whole city will be passable," said Gamache. Seeing Beauvoir's puzzled expression he added, "Emerson.""Lake and Palmer?""Ralph and Waldo.

The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs.

Ralph Waldo Emerson