Darlesia Smith Quotes

#1. I've never met a shell before. What a marvelous gift.

Marissa Meyer

#2. Ah, so that must have been her mystery: she had discovered a trail into the forest. Surely that was where she went during her absences. Returning with her eyes filled with gentleness & ignorance, eyes made whole. An ignorance so vast that inside it all the world's wisdom could be contained & lost.

Clarice Lispector

#3. True, he had dreamy visions of possibilities: there is no human being who having both passions and thoughts does not think in consequence of his passions - does not find images rising in his mind which soothe the passion with hope or sting it with dread.

George Eliot

#4. Emerson was the chief figure in the American transcendental movement, a fact that complicates all accounts of him in literary or cultural history.

Howard Mumford Jones

#5. Perhaps a germ of love was springing in their hearts so pure that it might blossom in Paradise, since it could not be matured on earth;

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#6. To forgive is to be free from past resentment to welcome the dawn of peace.

Debasish Mridha

#7. I have that memory of dancing on my father's feet to all the music my parents used to listen to.

Deborah Kass

#8. He was a son of a bitch, too. He played ball in school, and had those fancy-cut muscles the young men have these days. They look real nice, but to me they're like flowers grown in a hothouse that would die if you planted them out in the real world.

Jordan Harper

#9. You can't change the past. You can only change the future.

Amanda Grace

#10. As soon as you have made a thought, laugh at it.

Lao-Tzu

#11. This is real human drama, we're not creating some amusement park ride for the summer. Even though the movie is really exciting to watch, it's got a real pathos behind it.

John C. Reilly

#12. To be Catholic was to belong to an ethnic group, not a religion. You didn't really have to believe it, or act like you believed it, to be a Catholic. You just had to show up every week for Mass and go to Catholic school.

Carlene Bauer

#13. She followed him into a dark parlor to which clung the musky sweet smell of clean Negro, snuff, and Hearts of Love hairdressing. Several shadowy forms rose when she entered.

Harper Lee