Appalachian Literature Quotes

#1. To mention a loved object, a person, or a place to someone else is to invest that object with reality.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#2. Diana couldn't be improved upon even by imagination.

L.M. Montgomery

#3. Wild steep mountains floating in a haze of cloud...a sea of green trees swallowing the hills and valleys, and curling around the trails and rivers, with the wind in the leaves as its tide.

Sharyn McCrumb

#4. Leadership is about encouraging women to break their silence and tell their stories to the world.

Zainab Salbi

#5. Always I am speaking English on behalf of fools

Michael Pitre

#6. Your journey has molded you for your greater good, and it was exactly what it needed to be. Don't think you've lost time. There is no short-cutting to life. It took each and every situation you have encountered to bring you to the now. And now is right on time.

Asha Tyson

#7. Being made happy isn't receiving something new, it's being made to understand what we have.

Gwen Bristow

#8. Seasons didn't come behind the nicotine-stained walls of Mountain City's prison, so Harm always imagined it spring--the locust trees clustered with shaggy white blooms, the wet woods flecked with bloodroot, and wild roses and honeysuckle flashing white among the chestnuts on the mountainsides...

Sharyn McCrumb

#9. Seeing you sleeping peacefully on your back among your stuffed ducks, bears and basset hounds, would remind me that no matter how good the next day might be, certain moments were gone forever because we could not go backwards in time.

Joan Baez

#10. I promised you the moon for your throne and stars to wear in your hair," said Amar, gesturing inside. "And I always keep my promises.

Roshani Chokshi

#11. My first concern was to take care of my drawing. I did not have any knowledge in arts, especially Haitian arts, apart from the paintings I saw in my father's office.

Ralph Allen

#12. I'm interested in the self. And in the limits and transformations of self. And in self presentation. And in doubt. And in playing with the audience's expectations. But I don't like dressing up like on Halloween.

Rachel Zucker