Narrative Of Frederick Douglass Quotes

#1. Autobiography is awfully seductive; it's wonderful. Once I got into it, I realized I was following a tradition established by Frederick Douglass - the slave narrative - speaking in the first-person singular, talking about the first-person plural, always saying 'I,' meaning 'we.'

Maya Angelou

#2. He that humbles himself shall be preserved entire. He that bends shall be made straight. He that is empty shall be filled. He that is worn out shall be renewed. He who has little shall succeed. He who has much shall go astray.

Laozi

#3. The wise man is one who, knows, what he does not know.

Lao-Tzu

#4. The key to happiness is loving yourself. For years I have struggled to reach this point and even now at the age of 20 I will be honest in saying I am not 100% there yet. However, I will say I am much closer to that 100 than I was 5 years ago.

Gabriela M. Sanchez

#5. She glanced left and right, all wide-eyed and innocent. Innocent as a streetwalker.

Lisa Tawn Bergren

#6. How easy it was, she thought unhappily as she did it, for men and women. They could stand in a street and argue, flirt - they could kiss, make love, do anything at all - and the world indulged them.

Sarah Waters

#7. Really, there was only one sensible thing to do. Stay the course. Pray it through, day by day, minute by minute. The Lord had an answer and it would surely come. (p. 203)

Janice Hanna

#8. But I know better than anyone that if he doesn't see that answer, it's because he doesn't want to.

Laurelin Paige

#9. While I am writing about the details of my own intimate encounters and journeys in America and the Far East.

Frederick Lenz

#10. We must never forget that if the war in Vietnam is lost ... the right of free speech will be extinguished throughout the world.

Richard M. Nixon

#11. The air feels cleaner because when the world is below us, we allow ourselves to breathe fully.

David Levithan

#12. Back through the ages of barbarism and civilization, in all tongues, we find this instinctive pleasure in the imitative action that is the very essence of all drama.

George Pierce Baker

#13. Nothing comes from without; all things come from within - from the subconscious

Neville Goddard

#14. I am the seasons, I think sometimes, January, May, November; the mud, the mist, the dawn. I cannot be tossed about, or float gently, or mix with other people.

Virginia Woolf

#15. children treasure the hope that they might be like the children in books: secretly magical, part of some deeper, mysterious world that makes them something out of the ordinary.

Helen Macdonald