Cry My Beloved Country Quotes

#1. There is only one thing that has power completely, and that is love.

Alan Paton

#2. I am so fed up and joyless that not only have I nothing to fill my soul, I cannot even conceive of anything that could possibly satisfy it - alas, not even the bliss of heaven.

Soren Kierkegaard

#3. Now God be thanked that the name of a hill is such music, that the name of a river can heal.

Alan Paton

#4. I am, uh ... a 6 foot tall woman, I feel like I'm a healthy size, I'm not anorexic; and I feel that people who aren't anorexic are punished ... for not being anorexic.

Kristen Johnston

#5. The turtle lives 'twixt plated decks Which practically conceal its sex I think it clever of the turtle In such a fix to be so fertile.

Ogden Nash

#6. It was to the small serious boy that he turned for his enjoyment. He had bought the child some cheap wooden blocks, and with these the little one played endlessly and intently, with a purpose obscure to the adult mind, but completely absorbing.

Alan Paton

#7. I was never allowed to read the popular American children's books of my day because, as my mother said, the children spoke bad English without the author's knowing it.

Edith Wharton

#8. They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they never kept but one; they promised to take our land, and they took it.

Dee Brown

#9. Quick answers often lead to quick regrets.

Libba Bray

#10. In most important ways, this world is explicitly antibureaucratic: that is, it evinces an explicit rejection of virtually all the core values of bureaucracy.

David Graeber

#11. Live in such a way that unless God shows up what you're attempting to do is bound to fail. This is the nature of the Gospel.

Bill Johnson

#12. When it all comes down to it, life isn't about how much we get - it's about how much we share.

Tyler Perry

#13. From so high above it, the world seems ordered and deliberate.

But I know it's more than that. And less. It is structured and chaotic. Beautiful and strange.

Nicola Yoon

#14. Indeed, mother, you are always our helper."
"For what else are we born?

Alan Paton

#15. As with most people, my ideology and my attitudes about life were informed by parents and family.

David Harsanyi

#16. To put it bluntly, research shows that we can't multitask. We are biologically incapable of processing attention-rich inputs simultaneously.

John Medina

#17. But sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.

Alan Paton

#18. Indeed, there is something in this valley, some spirit and some life, and much to talk about in the huts. Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.

Alan Paton