Top 100 Quotes About Emerson
#1. The religion of one age is the literary entertainment of the next. - RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Richard Dawkins
#2. Thank you," Emerson said, bowing his head and accepting the box with the tender hands of a parent holding a child. "I am indebted-"
"Don't be.This doesn't mean I like you or your politics any better," Heath said gruffly.
Lisa Kleypas
#3. Emerson was not passionate about abolition. He wasn't a passionate person. He was a cool intellectual, and I think he probably was a little uncomfortable with passionate people, but he was against slavery.
Nell Irvin Painter
#4. Don't follow where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail" ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Bob Suggs
#5. It was the afternoon of the day and the afternoon of his life, and his course was now westward down all the mountains into the sunset. [speaking about Ralph Waldo Emerson]
John Muir
#6. Let others be afraid, but the soul is not afraid of anything. It lives according to its own laws. It is bigger than space and older than time. It gives courage against all the misfortunes of life. - RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Leo Tolstoy
#7. Their spirituality was in nature, even though Emerson was a preacher on the pulpit, he ended up going out into nature for direct, face-to-face communication with God, if you want to call all of this creation part of God.
Story Musgrave
#8. Here was the old Professor Emerson, simmering beneath Gabriel's chastened exterior.
Sylvain Reynard
#9. Wasn't it Emerson who said, 'My life is for itself and not for a spectacle'? I have a happy, full, good life because I hold it private.
Mary Oliver
#10. Life is a journey, not a destination," Emerson said. "One must live in the moment.
Janet Evanovich
#12. It is character that communicates most eloquently. As Emerson once put it, What you are shouts so loudly in my ears I cannot hear what you say.
Stephen R. Covey
#13. My Mt. Rushmore of hero worship would include Ralph Waldo Emerson, Marcus Aurelius, Frank Sinatra and Barry White.
Karen Duffy
#14. I want her to meet me. Trent Emerson. The guy who wants to feel the warmth that I know exists within her. The guy who's tied to her forever, whether she likes it or not. The one who needs to somehow make things right with her because I made everything so wrong.
K.A. Tucker
#15. Bah,' said Emerson. 'It relieved my feelings, but it had not the
Elizabeth Peters
#16. We are always getting to live, as Ralph Waldo Emerson used to say, but never living. Or as poor Frances learned in the children's story, it is always bread and jam tomorrow, never brad and jam today.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
#17. Emerson pointed out, The test of courage comes when we are in the minority.
Bohdi Sanders
#18. Um, Emerson?" she said. "I've reached the end of my rope.
Janet Evanovich
#19. If for some reason we get separated, I want you to wait for me. I'll find you, I promise. - Gabriel Emerson
Sylvain Reynard
#20. When I went to college, I majored in American literature, which was unusual then. But it meant that I was broadly exposed to nineteenth-century American literature. I became interested in the way that American writers used metaphoric language, starting with Emerson.
Marilynne Robinson
#21. Let every man shovel out his own snow, and the whole city will be passable," said Gamache. Seeing Beauvoir's puzzled expression he added, "Emerson."
"Lake and Palmer?"
"Ralph and Waldo.
Louise Penny
#22. His lips parted, but long years of experience with Ramses, and to some extent, Emerson, had taught me how to turn a conversation into a monologue.
Elizabeth Peters
#23. I have not, in general, much belief in the ability of woman as a creative artist. Unwritten lyrics, as [Ralph Waldo] Emerson said once when we conversed on this subject, should be her forte.
Fredrika Bremer
#24. Though Emerson is a firm believer in the equality of the female sex, he has some secret reservations, and one of them involves the car. (There is something about these machines that makes men want to pound their chests and roar like gorillas. I speak figuratively, of course.)
Elizabeth Peters
#25. We have learned the simple truth, as Emerson said that the only way to have a friend is to be one. We can gain no lasting peace if we approach it with suspicion or mistrust or with fear.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
#26. Why would I go look at other women when the most beautiful woman in the world shares my bed every night? he protested, kissing her lightly. - Gabriel Emerson
Sylvain Reynard
#27. I was too much of a Bronx kid to read Emerson or Hawthorne.
Don DeLillo
#28. As Emerson observes, "The etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a brilliant picture. Language is fossil poetry."4
Gene Edward Veith Jr.
#29. Cities force growth and make men talkative and entertaining, but they make them artificial. Ralph Waldo Emerson
H.W. Brands
#30. Roosevelt returned to this theme in his fourth inaugural address in 1945: We have learned the simple truth, as Emerson said, that "The only way to have a friend is to be one." We can gain no lasting peace if we approach it with suspicion and mistrust or with fear.
Henry Kissinger
#31. Money often costs too much.' - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ruskin Bond
#32. Emerson, I am trying to live, as you said we must, the examined life. But there are days I wish there was less in my head to examine, not to speak of the busy heart.
Mary Oliver
#33. Of the creative spirits that flourished in Concord, Massachusetts, it might be said that Hawthorne loved men but felt estranged from them, Emerson loved ideas even more than men, and Thoreau loved himself.
Leon Edel
#34. God help me, I'm gonna make sure we get out of this alive and I'm going to kill that son of a bitch ... I'm gonna make him wish he never stepped foot in this town -Emerson Shaw
Justin Bienvenue
#35. Emerson:bite me Whitne:you wish
Meg Cabot
#36. the poet Emerson said that when we have worn out our shoes, the strength of the journey has passed into our body.
Ruta Sepetys
#37. "All government in essence," says Emerson, "is tyranny." It matters not whether it is government by divine right or majority rule. In every instance its aim is the absolute subordination of the individual.
Emma Goldman
#38. Life," said Emerson, "consists in what a man is thinking all day." If that be so, then my life is nothing but a big intestine. I not only think about food all day, but I dream about it at night.
Henry Miller
#39. PIE God enters by a private door, into every individual. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wm. Paul Young
#40. To laugh often and much ... this is to have succeeded. Probably not from Emerson: here's the full quotation and the story.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#41. I could ... see in Emerson ... that had he lived in those days when the world was made, he might have offered some valuable suggestions.
Herman Melville
#42. A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds,' she quotes Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Patricia Cornwell
#44. Emerson, you just shared your deepest secret with me. I value that. Don't make light of it.
If he wasn't already holding my heart in the palm of his hand, I would have taken it out and given it to him.
Myra McEntire
#45. Ralph Waldo Emerson once said, "Nothing great has ever been achieved without enthusiasm.
Carmine Gallo
#46. Adopt the pace of nature, said Ralph Waldo Emerson. Her secret is patience. Ray
Lisa Unger
#47. In 1848, Thoreau went to jail for refusing, as a protest against the Mexican war, to pay his poll tax. When RW Emerson came to bail him out, Emerson said, 'Henry, what are you doing in there?' Thoreau quietly replied, 'Ralph, what are you doing out there?'
Henry David Thoreau
#48. [Emerson] was interested not in the bookworm, not even in the thinker, only in Man Thinking.
Robert D. Richardson
#49. Emerson, Lake & Palmer or King Crimson or Gentle Giant - the worst prog rock references I can come up with. Though I totally loved those groups as a kid.
Duncan Sheik
#50. Here's to losing Emerson, and finding Em again! I raised the shot glass in the air.
Kimberly Lauren
#51. Concord is a classic land. The names of Emerson and Thoreau and Channing and Hawthorne are associated with the fields and forests and lakes and rivers of this township.
Amos Bronson Alcott
#52. How many men are stupid enough to dump two Emerson girls?" Dad asked. "Too bad we're not mobbed up. We could have his body dumped in the Farmington River.
Kristan Higgins
#53. I'm the man who sits behind a table and tells true stories from his life. I'm also an actor. I was trained as an actor at Emerson College, and I use that training to play myself.
Spalding Gray
#54. I went to Concord, a young woman from the backwoods, firm in belief that Emerson was the first of living men. He was the modern Moses who had talked with God apart and could interpret Him to us.
Rebecca Harding Davis
#55. Something which, for want of a more definite term at present, I must be permitted to be called queer; but which Mr. Coleridge would have called mystical, Mr. Kant pantheistical, Mr. Carlyle twistical, and Mr. Emerson hyperquizzitistical.
Edgar Allan Poe
#56. I had switched from the arrogant absurdity of Norton and Emerson to that of Jack and the Brotherhood, and it all came out the same - except I now recognized my invisibility. So I'd accept it, I'd explore it, rine and heart. I'd
Ralph Ellison
#57. Most thoughtful Americans of today seem to have forgotten how strongly their own and immediate predecessors, Emerson, Hawthorne and Whitman, were still preoccupied with the essence behind things.
Johan Huizinga
#58. Emerson,' I said, choosing my words with care, 'it is a sheer drop from the cleft down to the base of the cliff. If you are bent on breaking your arm or your leg or your neck or all three, find a place closer to home so we won't have to carry you such a distance.
Elizabeth Peters
#59. Ralph Waldo Emerson could write (in The Conduct of Life, 1860): 'The influence of fine scenery, the presence of mountains, appeases our irritations and elevates our friendships.' Mountains
Richard Fortey
#60. My world view is somewhat unique. I have learned from many great philosophers including Plato, Socrates, Buddha, Jesus, Darwin, Tagore, Emerson, and many more.
Debasish Mridha
#61. When he died, Emerson was thought of as the representative American writer par excellence, and his point of view was still so potent that William James was honored to be asked to speak at a centenary celebration.
Howard Mumford Jones
#62. The landscape belongs to the person who looks at it ... -Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#63. If there is something great in you, it will not appear on your first call. It will not appear and come to you easily, without any work and effort. - RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Leo Tolstoy
#64. There comes Emerson first, whose rich words, every one, Are like gold nails in temples to hang trophies on.
James Russell Lowell
#65. For you, my love, I would endeavor to pluck the stars from the sky, only to shower them at your feet."
"How do you do that?'
"Do what?"
"Say things like that. That's beautiful."
"I've spent years studying poetry, Mrs. Emerson. It's in my DNA.
Sylvain Reynard
#66. Emerson, do you mean it?' 'It is only your due, my dear Peabody. Spite and selfishness alone kept me from beginning on them long ago. You deserve pyramids, and pyramids you will have!
Elizabeth Peters
#68. Even stranger, though, was how, at this very moment, this car with its echoes of death and decisions and life courses forever altered was the one place where Emerson had never felt so vividly alive.
Stephanie Kuehn
#69. SLEEP IS NOT, DEATH IS NOT; WHO SEEM TO DIE LIVE. HOUSE YOU WERE BORN IN, FRIENDS OF YOUR SPRING-TIME, OLD MAN AND YOUNG MAID, DAY'S TOIL AND ITS GUERDON, THEY ARE ALL VANISHING, FLEEING TO FABLES, CANNOT BE MOORED. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ransom Riggs
#70. Emerson died April 27, 1882, after a few days' illness from pneumonia. Dr. Garnett in his excellent biography says: Seldom had 'the reaper whose name is Death' gathered such illustrious harvest as between December 1880 and April 1882.
Anonymous
#71. Because Liz Emerson held so much darkness within her that closing her eyes didn't make much of a difference at all.
Amy Zhang
#72. Liz Emerson held so much darkness within her that closing her eyes didn't make much a difference at all.
Amy Zhang
#73. Instead, Emerson came to accept that when someone dies, things that belong to you disappear, too.
Noel Alumit
#74. We all know how we can be turned around by a magic place; that's why we travel, often. And yet we all know, too, that the change cannot be guaranteed. Travel is a fool's paradise, Emerson reminded us, if we think that we can find anything far off that we could not find at home.
Pico Iyer
#75. To be simple is to be great. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Thom S. Rainer
#76. There is, as Emerson says, some central idea or conception of yourself by which all the facts of your life are arranged and classified. Change this central idea and you change the arrangement or classification of all the fact and circumstances of your life.
Wallace D. Wattles
#77. Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine. - Ralph Waldo Emerson, writer and philosopher
Marci Shimoff
#78. Emerson maintains, justly or unjustly, that all religious leaders are showmen at heart.
Elizabeth Peters
#79. Walt Whitman and Emerson are the poets who have given the world more than anyone else. Perhaps Whitman is not so widely read in England, but England never appreciates a poet until he is dead.
Oscar Wilde
#80. Even a Menno sheltered from the world knows not to stick her tongue into the mouth of a boy who owns an Air Supply record. You might stick your tongue into the mouth of a boy who owned some Emerson, Lake and Palmer, but you would not date him on a regular basis, or openly.
Miriam Toews
#81. It may be that Emerson is going to hell, but of one thing I am certain; he will change the climate there, and emigration will set that way.
Edward Taylor
#82. Emerson then incarnated the moral optimism, the progress, and the energy of the American spirit.
Howard Mumford Jones
#83. Our high respect for a well-read man is praise enough for literature. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#84. Ralph Waldo Emerson would definitely be my homeboy.
Rainn Wilson
#85. Emerson argued that "the whole secret of the teacher's force lies in the conviction that men are convertible, and they are. They want awakening, [and for that purpose they need teachers] to get the soul out of bed, out of her deep habitual sleep." That
Huston Smith
#86. Emerson was the chief figure in the American transcendental movement, a fact that complicates all accounts of him in literary or cultural history.
Howard Mumford Jones
#87. Emerson once said, "The difference between a hero and a regular man is that a hero was braver five minutes longer.
Jenni Pulos
#88. You can learn more by going to the opera than you ever can by reading Emerson. Like that there are two sexes.
David Markson
#89. I didn't care at all about losing, but I just didn't want Emerson to feel bad, You know, I didn't win, but Felicity won, and when you come to the set next time, you can give her a big congratulations.
Teri Hatcher
#90. Michael Emerson is just a prince. There's something about him. He's so sweet. I don't know how to describe it. There's something about him that's a bit royal.
Sarah Shahi
#91. He had gone to the higher Sierras ... [about Ralph Waldo Emerson's death]
John Muir
#92. Emerson is a remarkable person, considering that he is a man. Which is not saying a great deal.
Elizabeth Peters
#93. Look at us," Emerson laughs, "A couple of bleeding hearts.
Colleen Masters
#94. You strip me bare. You see through everything. You are the only one who has ever known everything and still wanted me. Only you, my beloved.
Gabriel Emerson
Sylvain Reynard
#95. What you are speaks so loudly that I can't hear what you say. - RALPH WALDO EMERSON
John C. Maxwell
#97. Emerson has said, "When half-gods go, the gods arrive." That is a very doubtful maxim. Better say, "When God arrives (and only then) the half-gods can remain." Left to themselves they either vanish or become demons.
C.S. Lewis
#98. I'm an answer, Frankie. Maybe you're an answer for me, too? - Emerson
Liza M. Wiemer
#99. I've swallowed a pollywog. It wriggleth in my tummy. I shall die - Emerson
E. M. Forster
#100. For a time Emerson politely endeavored to conceal his boredom - like most men, he is profoundly disinterested in all children except his own - ...
Elizabeth Peters
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