Rachel Field Quotes

#1. When I was young they used to say people only threw stones at the tree that was loaded with fruit.

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#2. I've seen public opinion shift like the wind and put out the very fire it lighted.

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#3. The sight of a cage is only frightening to the bird that has once been caught.

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#4. I was never one to begrudge people their memories. From a child I would listen when they spoke of the past.

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#5. I used to think I had ambition ... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.

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#6. There's plenty of fire in the coldest flint!

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#7. One of the pleasantest things about book writing is that sometimes it brings one in touch with old friends.

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#8. Affections cannot be stolen, madam. They are given freely or not at all.

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#9. No matter how hard and faithfully we may try we can never compensate another for some lack in his or her life.

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#10. You know the public is more easily swayed by persons than by principles.

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#11. Doorbells are like a magic game,
Or the grab-bag at a fair
You never know when you hear one ring
Who may be waiting there.

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#12. It's terrible when the weak are also cruel for then we are defenseless against them.

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#13. No hardy perennial has the enduring quality of hope. Cut it to the roots, stamp it underfoot, let frost and fire work their will, and still some valiant shoot will push, to grow again on such scanty fare as it can find. Only time and the cruel quicklime of fact can destroy that stubborn urgency.

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#14. A little town is like a lantern. Nothing's hid from sight.

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#15. There was no reality to pain when it left one, thought while it held one fast all other realities failed.

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#16. Too much good fortune can make you smug and unaware. Happiness should be like an oasis, the greener for the desert that surrounds it.

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#17. Isn't it strange some people make
You feel so tired inside,
Your thoughts begin to shrivel up
Like leaves all brown and dried!
But when you're with some other ones,
It's stranger still to find
Your thoughts as thick as fireflies
All shiny in your mind!

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#18. His hoofbeats fall like rain, over and over again.

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#19. And scandal has a way of catching up with those who disregard its power.

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#20. The difference between ambition and discontent is quite a fine line and sometimes it is hard to tell which is which and which you are feeling!

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#21. The more one suffered and lived, the more one had known of joy and grief, the deeper the response must be if an artist were great enough to summon it.

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