Top 33 Cushman Quotes
#1. Cushman, who assigned her to research McCarthy's assault on civil liberties, "wanted me to understand two things," Ruth recalls. "One is that we were betraying our most fundamental values, and, two, that legal skills could help make things better, could help to challenge what was going on.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
#2. I feel safer when you're here. You're so big and sturdy, like a beautiful tree I can lean on and not knock over.
Karen Cushman
#3. I cannot be a monk, nor a crusader, nor a tumbler. I must stay here and hem sheets until I die. My humors are greatly out of balance. I prescribe for myself wormwood and spiced wine and some of the custard left from supper, and I will let all of the dogs sleep in my bed.
Karen Cushman
#4. Just as a river by night shines with the reflected light of the moon, so too do you shine with the light of your family, your people, and your God. So you are never far from home, never alone, wherever you go.
Karen Cushman
#5. [T]hose who are in a position of strength have a responsibility to protect the weak.
Thomas Cushman
#6. Just because you don't know everything don't mean you know nothing.
Karen Cushman
#7. Other artists - poets, painters, sculptors, musicians - produce something which lives after them and enshrines their memories in positive evidences of their divine mission; but we, - we strut and fret our hour upon the stage, and then the curtain falls and all is darkness and silence.
Charlotte Saunders Cushman
#8. Seems to me God made a big mistake when He failed to put handles on watermelons.
Karen Cushman
#9. I cannot escape my life but can only use my determination and courage to make it the best I can.
Karen Cushman
#10. My pains are but trifling things compared to my joy.
Karen Cushman
#12. There is a God! the sky his presence shares,
His hand upheaves the billows in their mirth,
Destroys the mighty, yet the humble spares
And with contentment crowns the thought of worth.
Charlotte Saunders Cushman
#13. She must not look too proud nor yet too humble, lest people say she is proud of her humility."
Excerpt From: "Catherine, Called Birdy.
Karen Cushman
#14. I know what I want. A full belly, a contented heart, and a place in this world.
Karen Cushman
#15. Art is an absolute mistress; she will not be coquetted with or slighted; she requires the most entire self-devotion, and she repays with grand triumphs.
Charlotte Saunders Cushman
#16. Victor Hugo makes one of his heroines
an actress
say, "My art endows me with a searching eye, a knowledge of the soul and the soul's workings; and, spite of all your skill, I read to the depths." This is a truth more or less powerful, as one is more or less gifted by the good God.
Charlotte Saunders Cushman
#17. No artist work is so high, so noble, so grand, so enduring, so important for all time, as the making of character is a child.
Charlotte Saunders Cushman
#18. [in the context of 1881] "Don't you want to get married and have babies? Mrs. Bergman used to say that women need-" "What women need is more exercise, shorter skirts, and their own way once in a while.
Karen Cushman
#19. Minds, like diapers, need occasional changing.
Karen Cushman
#20. It's important to know what you think, my dear, or else you will be so hemmed in by other people's ideas and opinions, you won't have room for your own.
Karen Cushman
#21. I am near fourteen and have never yet seen a hanging. My life is barren.
Karen Cushman
#22. Corpus bones, I thought. To be wedded to this perfumed prig with his mouth in a knot and a frown always on his face!
Karen Cushman
#23. Seems to me home is where I am loved and safe and needed.
Karen Cushman
#24. She dreamed of nothing, for she hoped for nothing and expected nothing. It was as cold and dark inside her as out in the frosty night.
Karen Cushman
#25. But other times, I'd find her staring at the typewriter with something that could only be described as hate.
Steve Cushman
#27. I think sometimes that people are like onions. On the outside smooth and whole and simple but inside ring upon ring, complex and deep.
Karen Cushman
#29. As I explore the wilderness of my own body, I see that I am made of blood and bones, sunlight and water, pesticide residues and redwood humus, the fears and dreams of generations of ancestors, particles of exploded stars.
Anne Cushman
#30. I still need Marines who can shoot and salute. But I need Marines who can fix jet engines and man sophisticated radar sets, as well.
Robert E. Cushman Jr.
#32. I want to remake the whole world; anything less is not worth the trouble.
Karen Cushman
