Miss Cornelia Quotes

#1. Having faith often means doing what others see as crazy.

Francis Chan

#2. Writing is extremely personal, and that's the joy of it for me.

Steve Martin

#3. Well, all I hope," said Miss Cornelia calmly, "is that when I'm dead nobody will call me 'our departed sister.

L.M. Montgomery

#4. He who truly believes that which prompts him to an action has looked upon the action to lust after it, he has committed it already in his heart.

William Kingdon Clifford

#5. Cornelia was rightfully Mrs. Marshall Elliott, and had been Mrs. Marshall Elliott for thirteen years, but even yet more people referred to her as Miss

L.M. Montgomery

#6. Every work has got to pass through hundreds of difficulties before succeeding. Those that persevere will see the light, sooner or later.

Swami Vivekananda

#7. Reading groups, readings, breakdowns of book sales all tell the same story: when women stop reading, the novel will be dead.

Ian McEwan

#8. Well, James Matthew is a name that will wear well and not fade in the washing," said Miss Cornelia. "I'm glad you didn't load him down with some highfalutin, romantic name that he'd be ashamed of when he gets to be a grandfather ...

L.M. Montgomery

#9. The sky is falling, the wind is calling
Stand for something, or die in the morning

Kendrick Lamar

#10. Mark 3:25: And if a house is divided against itself, that house will not be able to stand.

James MacDonald

#11. He believed he was dead and used to rage at his wife because she wouldn't bury him. I'd a-done it.

L.M. Montgomery

#12. The deeper into this chapter in my life I get, the fainter the hum of crucifixion becomes.

Maggie Young

#13. Was a new family in the manse. And such a family! Miss Cornelia shook her head over them several times as she walked briskly along. Susan Baker

L.M. Montgomery

#14. Miss Cornelia dropped in that afternoon, puffing a little.
"I don't mind the world or the devil much, but the flesh does rather bother me," she admitted. "You always look as cool as a cucumber, Anne, dearie. Do I smell cherry pie? If I do, ask me to stay to tea ...

L.M. Montgomery

#15. On a charcoal kiln a vine keeps climbing, while being burned to death.

Soseki Natsume

#16. Peace has a great deal to do with warm-heartednes s and respect for the lives of others, avoiding doing them harm and regarding their lives as being as precious as our own. If, on that basis, we can also be of help to others, so much the better.

Dalai Lama

#17. She was beginning to miss him when he wasn't near.

Cornelia Funke

#18. Charitable Impulse XXV. Another Scandal and Another "Explanation" XXVI. Miss Cornelia Gets a New Point of View XXVII. A Sacred Concert XXVIII. A Fast Day XXIX. A Weird Tale

L.M. Montgomery

#19. The stripped and shapely Maple grieves The ghosts of her Departed leaves. The ground is hard, As hard as stone. The year is old, The birds are flown.

John Updike

#20. The Reverend John Knox Meredith, Mrs. Dr. dear," said Susan, resolved not to let Miss Cornelia tell all the news. "Is

L.M. Montgomery

#21. You can drain the life and nuances and complexity out of things by homogenizing them to make everything harmoniously dull, flat, conflict-free, strife-free.

Gary Ross