Hervey Allen Quotes

#1. Local color has a fatal tendency to remain local; but it is also true that the universal often borders on the void.

Hervey Allen

#2. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

Hervey Allen

#3. To hear how much of a great human being you were - even if you really weren't - open your ears at your funeral.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#4. Legends are material to be moulded, and not facts to be recorded.

Hervey Allen

#5. Creativity is not simply a property of exceptional people but an exceptional property of all people.

Ron Carter

#6. There is something about losing your mother that is permanent and inexpressable - a wound that will never quite heal.

Susan Wiggs

#7. In a continent but recently settled, many parts of which have as yet little historical or cultural background, the material for this volume has been gathered from a section that was one of the first to be colonized.

Hervey Allen

#8. Religions change; beer and wine remain.

Hervey Allen

#9. Southward, two mighty ranges of the Appalachians shouldered their way into the blue distance like tremendous caravans marching across eternity.

Hervey Allen

#10. Each new generation is a fresh invasion of savages.

Hervey Allen

#11. The mountain was as powerful as the tide, just...in a different way.

Seanan McGuire

#12. Here the Frenchman, Spaniard, and Englishman all passed, leaving each his legend; and a brilliant and more or less feudal civilization with its aristocracy and slaves has departed with the economic system upon which it rested.

Hervey Allen

#13. I'm much too modest a person.

Malcolm Muggeridge

#14. Cath thought of Levi's warmth against her arm last night. And his ten thousand smiles. And his forty-acre foreheard.

Rainbow Rowell

#15. Some of the shells brought my heart into my mouth; lying there waiting for them was intolerable. I was sure I was going to be blown to pieces.

Hervey Allen