Top 32 Lydia Sigourney Quotes
#1. As a dedicated, successful writer, Lydia Sigourney violated essential elements of the very gender roles she celebrated. In the process, she offered young, aspiring women writers around the country an example of the possibilities of achieving both fame and economic reward.
Lydia Sigourney
#2. As nothing truly valuable can be attained without industry, so there can be no persevering industry without a deep sense of the value of time.
Lydia Sigourney
#3. Vigorous exercise will often fortify a feeble constitution.
Lydia Sigourney
#4. In early childhood you may lay the foundation of poverty or riches, industry or idleness, good or evil, by the habits to which you train your children. Teach them right habits then, and their future life is safe.
Lydia Sigourney
#5. Figure to yourself what the year would sustain were the spring taken away: such a loss do they sustain who trifle in youth.
Lydia Sigourney
#6. There must be some mixture of happiness in everything but sin.
Lydia Sigourney
#7. Fear is the white lipp'd sire
Of subterfuge and treachery.
Lydia Sigourney
#8. The glorified spirit of the infant is as a star to guide the mother to its own blissful clime.
Lydia Sigourney
#9. Youth would be too happy, might it add to its own beauty and felicity the wisdom and experience of riper years. Were it possible for it to realize the worth of time, as life's receding hours reveal it, how rapidly would it press on towards perfection!
Lydia Sigourney
#10. Prosperity, alas! is often but another name for pride.
Lydia Sigourney
#11. We speak of educating our children. Do we know that our children also educate us?
Lydia Sigourney
#12. I used to be really insecure about my self-education. I'm definitely always learning. But there's many ways to learn. There are many, many ways to always be a learner.
Maggie Grace
#13. The vanity of shining in conversation is usually subversive of its own desires.
Lydia Sigourney
#14. I don't think that I could fit into the costume anymore.
Lee Meriwether
#15. Gregory Rasputin, his bloodstream filled with poison, his body punctured by bullets, had died by drowning.
Robert K. Massie
#16. The true order of learning should be first, what is necessary; second, what is useful, and third, what is ornamental. To reverse this arrangement is like beginning to build at the top of the edifice.
Lydia Sigourney
#17. Teachers should be held in the highest honor. They are the allies of legislators; they have agency in the prevention of crime; they aid in regulating the atmosphere, whose incessant action and pressure cause the life-blood to circulate, and to return pure and healthful to the heart of the nation.
Lydia Sigourney
#18. A disposition to dwell on the bright side ... is like gold to its possessor ...
Lydia Sigourney
#19. Praise to our Father-God,
High praise in solemn lay,
Alike for what His hand hath given,
And what it takes away.
Lydia Sigourney
#20. Ye say they all have passed away, That noble race and brave; That their light canoes have vanished From off the crested wave; That mid the forests where they roamed There rings no hunter's shout; But their name is on your waters; Ye may not wash it out.
Lydia Sigourney
#21. Something will be gathered from the tablets of the most faultless day for regrets.
Lydia Sigourney
#22. Mira sat down on the rim of the fountain. The marble ledge was damp, and mist sprinkled her skin. Coins shimmered under the water like fish scales.
She counted them, each one a wish, and wondered how love could be anything but good.
Sarah Cross
#23. Habits, though in their commencement like the filmy line of the spider, trembling at every breeze, may in the end prove as links of tempered steel, binding a deathless being to eternal felicity or woe.
Lydia Sigourney
#24. Whatever you would have your children become, strive to exhibit in your own lives and conversation.
Lydia Sigourney
#25. We must not think that by saying yes to sex, one says no to power.
Michel Foucault
#26. Pride is a fruitful source of uneasiness. It keeps the mind in disquiet. Humility is the antidote to this evil.
Lydia Sigourney
#27. An appearance of delicacy is inseparable from sweetness and gentleness of character.
Lydia Sigourney
#28. Not on the outer world For inward joy depend; Enjoy the luxury of thought, Make thine own self friend; Not with the restless throng, In search of solace roam But with an independent zeal Be intimate at home.
Lydia Sigourney
#29. There is a lore simple and sure, that asks no discipline of weary years
the language of the soul, told through the eye.
Lydia Sigourney
#31. The strength of a nation, especially of a republican nation, is in the intelligent and well ordered homes of the people.
Lydia Sigourney
#32. Now man cannot live without some vision of himself. But still less can he live with a vision that is not true to his inner experience and inner feeling.
D.H. Lawrence
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