Lillian Smith Quotes

#1. The devout have laid out gardens in the desert.

Robert Duncan

#2. My child, what I want is muscles of iron and nerves of steel, inside which dwells a mind of the same material as that of which the thunderbolt is made.

Swami Vivekananda

#3. The point of life is to find the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality.

Lillian Smith

#4. All these threads, like the ley-lines he'd read about in his Time-Life history books, converging on the Cicciaro girl, who lay there unaware, a glass-coffined beauty whose kingdom was in ruins.

Garth Risk Hallberg

#5. The human heart dares not stay away too long from that which hurt it most. There is a return journey to anguish that few of us are released from making.

Lillian Smith

#6. I broke every barrier I could to see things as they are.

Lillian Smith

#7. Do I guard myself, my heart, my feelings, my thoughts? Do I guard the treasure of grace? Do I guard the presence of the Holy Spirit in me? Or do I let go, feeling secure, believing that all is going well?

Pope Francis

#8. Rich folks always talk hard times.

Lillian Smith

#9. The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.

Lillian Smith

#10. I soon realized that no journey carries one far unless, as it extends into the world around us, it goes an equal distance into the world within.

Lillian E. Smith

#11. Starting on February 1, 2010, and running through until May 30, I will be Toronto Public Library's Writer in Residence, working out of the Merril Collection of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Speculation at the Lillian H. Smith branch at College and Spadina.

Karl Schroeder

#12. When I left school I went to Australia for a year and worked in the drama department of a school in Perth.

James D'arcy

#13. Faith and doubt both are needed - not as antagonists, but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve.

Lillian Smith

#14. They are trying to hold on to a world that no longer exists. They are blind and terrified because they feel it slipping away from them. They are gripping thin air but they keep trying desperately to hold on to it - hoping the air will turn into something familiar and solid.

Lillian E. Smith

#15. When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die.

Lillian Smith

#16. My one aim and concentrated purpose shall be and is to show that women can learn, can reason, can compete with men in the grand fields of literature and science ...

M. Carey Thomas

#17. I was Hannah Cohen. I wasn't perfect, but I was strong.

Shana Norris

#18. To believe in something not yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives: it is the only way we can leave the future open.

Lillian Smith

#19. None but the weak crave to be better than. Strong men are satisfied with their own strength.

Lillian Smith

#20. With every breath, I plant the seeds of devotion, I am a farmer of the heart.

Rumi

#21. Children's books do not exist in a vacuum, unrelated to literature as a whole. They are a portion of universal literature and must be subjected to the same standards of criticism as any other form of literature.

Lillian H. Smith

#22. Jamie Oliver's lunch is soup, half a papaya with lime, ciabatta with mozzarella and prosciutto. The dear boy is not sharing the same planet as the rest of us. Is this lunacy supposed to be a practical suggestion for a harassed housewife trying to drag her children off to school?

Terry Wogan

#23. The question in crisis or ordeal is not: Are you going to be an extremist? The question is: What kind of extremist are you going to be?

Lillian Smith

#24. Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college.

Lillian Smith

#25. Man, born of woman, has found it a hard thing to forgive her for giving him birth. The patriarchal protest against the ancient matriarch has borne strange fruit through the years.

Lillian Smith

#26. Segregation is evil; there is no pattern of life which can dehumanize men as can the way of segregation.

Lillian Smith