Top 34 Elizabeth George Speare Quotes
#1. You can just sit and space out. A lot of people do that and think they are doing a wonderful meditation.
Frederick Lenz
#2. Who knows why God allows heartbreak, but the answer must be important enough because God allows His heart to break too.
Ann Voskamp
#3. The Southerner is usually tolerant of those weaknesses that proceed from innocence.
Flannery O'Connor
#5. All the way up the river she's been holding back somehow, waiting. Now you'll both have to wait. I'm not going to disappoint her, Kit. When I take you on board the Witch, it's going to be for keeps.
Elizabeth George Speare
#6. Miriam felt astonished at herself. It was a new thing for her to step out so independently. Somehow, in the past month a tough little root of determination had been growing in her. Whether it was strong enough to support the desperate plan she had undertaken she would soon find out.
Elizabeth George Speare
#7. The two boys stood and looked at each other. There was no amusement and no scorn in Attean's eyes. How very strange, Matt thought. After all the brave deeds he had dreamed of doing to win this boy's respect, he had gained it at last by doing nothing, just by staying here and refusing to leave.
Elizabeth George Speare
#9. Embrace every opportunity of exercising kind feelings and doing good to others, especially to the household of faith.
Adoniram Judson
#10. Life is not about living the safer option. Life is about living a life worth living.
Robert Thier
#11. She snatched at the dream that had comforted her for so long. It was faded and thin, like a letter too often read.
Elizabeth George Speare
#13. From that first moment, in a way she could never explain, the Meadows claimed her and made her their own.
Elizabeth George Speare
#14. Light didn't conduct truth as once he'd thought. There was nothing you could do to preserve truth. Light was only of use as a metaphor for the ungraspable moment.
Ali Shaw
#15. The impression of strength came from an extraordinary vitality that seemed to pulse in the very air around him
Elizabeth George Speare
#16. Tis a strange thing, that the only friends I have I found in the same way, lying flat in the meadows, crying as if their hearts would break.
Elizabeth George Speare
#17. If you ask me, it's all that schooling. It takes the fun out of life, being cooped up like that day after day ... Books, now that's different. There's nothing like a book to keep you company of a long voyage.
Elizabeth George Speare
#18. Have you noticed her name?"
Kit leaned sideways to see the letters painted jauntily on the transom. "The WITCH! How did you dare? Does Hannah know?"
"Oh, she's not named after Hannah. I hadn't gone ten miles down the river that day before I knew I'd left the real witch behind.
Elizabeth George Speare
#20. No, I have not asked Jesus to join us. All I hope and long for now is that he will ask me to join him.
Elizabeth George Speare
#22. These are my politics: to change what we can; to better what we can; but still to bear in mind that man is but a devil weakly fettered by some generous beliefs and impositions; and for no word however sounding, and no cause however just and pious, to relax the stricture on these bonds.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#23. There is no escape if love is not there, Hannah had said. Had Hannah known when she herself had not even suspected? It was not escape that she had dreamed about, it was love.
Elizabeth George Speare
#24. In order to break free from the chains that bind, one must take whatever action they can to disconnect internally from the larger systems of oppression, of which the family unit is merely a microcosm.
Sil Lai Abrams
#25. She rolled over and stretched, blinking up at the blue sky. The tips of the long grasses swished gently in the breeze. The hot sun pressed down on her so that she felt hot and empty. Slowly, the meadow began to fulfill its promise.
Elizabeth George Speare
#26. The dress that hung close to her head, waiting for the first rays of the sun to light it into beauty, symbolized the wonder of the past few days.
Elizabeth George Speare
#27. I was lucky enough to make four Bond films. It finished in rather shambolic fashion, but I have no bitterness, no resentment.
Pierce Brosnan
#28. Baseball life is a tough life on the family.
Nolan Ryan
#30. We can never know," Simon answered slowly. "God hides the future from man's eyes. We are forced to choose, not knowing. I have chosen Jesus.
Elizabeth George Speare
#31. I have no word of yours to assure me that our brief friendship held for you the same significance it held for me, but I must go on believing so. Every hope of the future is meaningless unless I have faith that you and I will share it together.
Elizabeth George Speare
#33. Students are rewarded for memorization, not imagination or resourcefulness.
Sugata Mitra
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