Awakening By Kate Chopin Quotes

#1. The Awakening, by Kate Chopin, and The Optimist's Daughter, by Eudora Welty.

Cheryl Strayed

#2. She was happy to be alive and breathing, when her whole being seemed to be one with the sunlight, the color, the odors, the luxuriant warmth of some perfect Southern day.

Kate Chopin

#3. Time doesn't concern me.

Kate Chopin

#4. The next best thing is to work with those who are not quite there yet to bring them up to that level.

Frederick Lenz

#5. Pirate gold isn't a thing to be hoarded or utilized. It is something to squander and throw to the four winds, for the fun of seeing the golden specks fly.

Kate Chopin

#6. I leave such ventures ti you younger men with the fever of life still in your blood.

Kate Chopin

#7. The morning was full of sunlight and hope.

Kate Chopin

#8. As long as I win I'm doing something right.

Caroline Wozniacki

#9. The Lord's Prayer is short and mysterious, and, like the treasures of the Spirit, full of wisdom and latent senses: it is not improper to draw forth those excellencies which are intended and signified by every petition, that by so excellent an authority we may know what it is lawful to beg of God.

Jeremy Taylor

#10. She put her arms around me and felt my shoulder blades to see if my wings were strong.

Kate Chopin

#11. I always try to avoid looking at the section where my books would be shelved, but I do know that my most reliable neighbor to the right is Kate Chopin's 'The Awakening', which is dispiriting. That's a book I don't want to re-read.

Susan Choi

#12. She grew daring and reckless, overestimating her strength. She wanted to swim far out, where no woman had swum before.

Kate Chopin

#13. Don't holler - smile and bide your time.' We've survived a passel of things that way, smiling and biding our time, and we've gotten to be experts at surviving. We had to be.

Margaret Mitchell

#14. Artists are social sensors and transmitters of ideas

Natasha Tsakos

#15. Teachers' working conditions are students' learning conditions

Diane Ravitch

#16. She wanted to destroy something. The crash and clatter were what she wanted to hear.

Kate Chopin

#17. How long will you be gone?"
"Forever, perhaps. I don't know. It depends upon a good many things.

Kate Chopin

#18. She had resolved to never take another step backward.

Kate Chopin

#19. Forty four percent of Republican voters believe President [Barack] Obama was not born in the United States. They believe he is not a legal citizen of the United States.They believe his presidency is unconstitutional.

Lawrence O'Donnell

#20. Good night. I adore you. Sleep well.

Kate Chopin

#21. Don't stir all the warmth out of your coffee; drink it.

Kate Chopin

#22. She liked then to wander alone into strange and unfamiliar places. She discovered many a sunny, sleepy corner, fashioned to dream in.

Kate Chopin

#23. Nearly all our originality comes from the stamp that time impresses upon our sensibility.

Charles Baudelaire

#24. Closeness can lead to emotions other than love. It's the ones who have been too intimate with you, lived in too close quarters, seen too much of your pain or envy or, perhaps more than anything, your shame, who, at the crucial moment, can be too easy to cut out, to exile, to expel, to kill off.

Daniel Mendelsohn

#25. Elijah Wood confirms his standing as the foremost actor of his generation ... Wood acts so eloquently with his sentient face and searching eyes that his job becomes one of concealing how redundant his spoken lines are - a tricky job he largely is able to bring off commendably.

Jay Carr

#26. Sometimes I feel this summer as if I were walking through the green meadow again, idly, aimlessly, unthinking and unguided.

Kate Chopin

#27. Mrs. Pontellier gave over being astonished, and concluded that wonders would never cease.

Kate Chopin