John Haines Quotes

#1. A solitary life cherishes mere fancies until they become manias.

Elizabeth Gaskell

#2. If they ever envision Goodness as a thing that exists outside them, some real thing they've been called to participate in by their actions, well then, we're headed right back toward The Virtues.

Geoffrey Wood

#3. To live by a large river is to be kept in the heart of things.

John Haines

#4. Cabbages, whose heads, tightly folded see and hear nothing of this world, dreaming only on the yellow and green magnificence that is hardening within them.

John Haines

#5. Thoughts become perception, perception becomes reality. Alter your thoughts, alter your reality.

William James

#6. I need to concede a considerable area to what I don't know and can't know, and perhaps don't wish to know. Only to understand in a way I do not quite understand.

John Haines

#7. I told them [the producers] I couldn't compound the lie that Black fathers don't care about their children. I was proud of the family life I was able to introduce to television.

Esther Rolle

#8. If you outlaw guns, only outlaws will have guns. The first people who are going to be in line to turn in their guns are law-abiding citizens. Criminals are going to be left with guns. I believe that concealed carry is a way of reducing gun violence.

Gary Johnson

#9. The old religionist cried out for his god. The new religionist cries out for some god to be his.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#10. No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.

William Cowper

#11. I've stolen a couple of hearts and they are in my private collection!

Salma Hayek

#12. A man's character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.

Frederick Douglass

#13. I faced in myself a passionate and tenacious longing
to put away thought forever, and all the trouble it brings, all but the nearest desire, direct and searching. To take the trail and not look back..Let the rest of mankind find me if it could.

John Haines