Top 100 Quotes About Hilda
#1. 'Ugly Betty' has been the most important thing I've ever done, easily. I was able to do more with one character than I can ever imagine doing again - Hilda was hilariously funny and emotionally deep ... I really got to showcase what I could do with a character.
Ana Ortiz
#2. Still bothers me that there's nothing on the news about it," Hilda
Robert Boren
#3. I was born on 7 September 1917 at Sydney in Australia. My father was English-born and a graduate of Oxford; my mother, born Hilda Eipper, was descended from a German minister of religion who settled in New South Wales in 1832. I was the second of four children.
John Cornforth
#6. Wait! Wait!" The beggar called out from behind her. "I can see! I'm healthy!" Hilda smiled to herself, pleased. "You just took away my livelihood! Do you have any idea how hard it is out here for a healthy beggar?" The man sounded almost angry.
J.L. Langland
#7. Like her friend and admirer Clarice Lispector, Hilda Hilst was a passionate explorer of the sacred and the profane, the pure and the obscene, and shows, in this discomfiting, hypnotic work, just how rarely those categories are what they seem. The translation is excellent - what a rare relief.
Benjamin Moser
#8. Hilda and I slept alongside each other fully dressed, head to feet.
Stanley Spencer
#9. Don't anybody mention ice skating; Grandmaw is too old and frail and it wouldn't be polite. Hilda, you suggest dominoes and we'll all chime in - Grandmaw likes dominoes. We'll go skating some other time. Okay, kids?" Jubal
Robert A. Heinlein
#10. The newspaper Hilda gets delivered would call me evil. The one I buy on the corner would say it's more complicated than that.
Sam Lipsyte
#11. I sometimes fancy," said Hilda, on whose susceptibility the scene always made a strong impression, "that Rome
mere Rome
will crowd everything else out of my heart.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#12. I believe the present matters
not the past! The past muust go. If we seek to keep the past alive, we end, I think, by distorting it. We see it in exaggerated terms
a false perspective. - Hilda Lee
Agatha Christie
#13. One must not judge other cultures by the standars of one's one,' said Aunt Hilda
Eva Ibbotson
#14. Read the inscription," he said. I opened the book. On the flyleaf it said: "To Hilda, so that on the day we part the substance of my hopes for the future and my predestined struggle will remain with you. Ernesto 20-1-55.
Hilda Gadea
#15. For millennia philosophers and saints have tried to reason out a logical scheme for the universe ... until Hilda came along and demonstrated that the universe is not logical but whimsical, its structure depending solely on the dreams and nightmares of non-logical dreamers.
Robert A. Heinlein
#16. Oh Hilda, what a treasure of sweet faith and pure imagination you hide under that little straw hat!
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#17. Well, I'll tell you, one of things I'm proud of is for someone from Southern California, who didn't grow up around coal mines, I learned a lot that tragic day we lost twenty-nine miners at Upper Big Branch coal mine.
Hilda Solis
#18. We need women to go through apprentice programs. I've seen women who did, and who are now highly trained electricians and welders. These are jobs that women are capable of doing.
Hilda Solis
#19. When you would think,
"what was the use of it,"
you'll remember
something you can't grasp
and you'll wonder
what it was.
Hilda Doolittle
#21. I myself have seen the floating ships
And nothing will ever be the same
The shouts,
The harrowing voices within the house.
I stand apart with an army:
My mind is graven with ships.
Hilda Doolittle
#22. Droughts especially appear to have accompanied the spirits of the dead in bee-form, and for this reason the honey offering was almost always customary in rain-magic, and the power of predicting rain was attributed to the bee.
Hilda M. Ransome
#23. At the demonstration of sixty feminists against the Miss America Pageant in 1968, when the women filled a trash can with bras, girdles, curlers and spike-heeled shoes, the bra-burning myth was launched by the media and, in spite of its inaccuracy and spiteful intent, put radical feminism on the map.
Hilda Scott
#24. The Christos-image
is most difficult to disentangle
from its art-craft junk-shop
paint-and-plaster medieval jumble
of pain-worship and death-symbol.
Hilda Doolittle
#25. I wanted to escape, Ehud, my mouth constantly starved for your mouth, life was splendor and marvel, unparalleled glimmer when you touched me, and sinister and hiccuping and nothingness when you were abscent
Hilda Hilst
#26. The moon is at her crystal window / Spinning and weaving ...
Hilda Conkling
#27. You will not see
that desire begets
love,
until it all flames
into one concise
and metallic blaze.
Hilda Doolittle
#28. Light threatens, is active, is gone,
so it is with a song.
Hilda Doolittle
#29. Alas, day, you brought light,
You trailed splendour
You showed us god:
I salute you, most precious one,
But I go to a new place,
Another life.
Hilda Doolittle
#30. Fall the deep curtains,
delicate the weave,
fair the thread.
Hilda Doolittle
#31. Love that I bear
within my breast
how is my armour melted
how my heart
Hilda Doolittle
#32. Not God
with wine,
nor death,
nor hate for a cry,
but God with a song
Hilda Doolittle
#33. That way of inspiration
is always open,
and open to everyone;
it acts as go-between, interpreter,
it explains symbols of the past
in to-day's imagery.
Hilda Doolittle
#34. No man will be present in those mysteries,
yet all men will kneel,
no man will be potent,
important,
yet all men will feel
what it is to be a woman.
Hilda Doolittle
#35. Magic doesn't happen often - not once in a blue moon ... I expect there isn't another magic ship like this one in the whole world.
Hilda Lewis
#36. No one knows,
the heart of a child,
how it grows
until it is too late.
Hilda Doolittle
#37. Ardent
yet chill and formal,
how I ache
to tempt a chisel
as a sculptor.
Hilda Doolittle
#39. Lovers may come and go,
there was the memory of blood,
the low call.
Hilda Doolittle
#40. O beautiful white land,
olives and wild anemone and violet
mingled among the shale,
and purple wings
of little winter-butterflies
say, here Psyche, the soul, lies.
Hilda Doolittle
#41. I could not accept from wisdom
what love taught,
woman is perfect.
Hilda Doolittle
#42. Ah love is bitter and sweet,
but which is more sweet
the bitterness or the sweetness,
none has spoken it.
Hilda Doolittle
#43. Protecting children and vulnerable workers abroad is a part of our overall efforts here at the Department of Labor.
Hilda Solis
#44. The fallen hazel-nuts, Stripped late of their green sheaths, The grapes, red-purple, Their berries Dripping with wine, Pomegranates already broken, And shrunken fig, And quinces untouched, I bring thee as offering.
Hilda Doolittle
#45. Earth and fire and water and air
We solemnly promise, we solemnly swear
Not a word, not a hint, not a sound to declare
Earth and fire and water and air!
Hilda Lewis
#46. When the shingles hissed
in the rain incendiary,
other values were revealed to us
Hilda Doolittle
#47. I grew up in a modest neighborhood just outside of Los Angeles. It was an industrial community of blue-collar, working people ... some of the hardest-working people I've ever met.
Hilda Solis
#48. Everyone teaches you something. Some teach you what to do, and others teach you what not to do.
Hilda Charlton
#49. Take what the old-church
found in Mithra's tomb,
candle and script and bell,
take what the new-church spat upon
and broke and shattered.
Hilda Doolittle
#50. At times you feel like you're the only voice speaking out to improve the working conditions of people, whether it's to be able to collectively bargain, to get adequate pay, to know that you can come home safe out of a coal mine.
Hilda Solis
#51. My parents raised me and my six siblings with little money ... but lots of love.
Hilda Solis
#52. I testify
to rainbow feathers, to the span of heaven
and walls of colour,
the colonnades of jasper.
Hilda Doolittle
#54. I will be free,
no lover's kiss
to bind me to earth,
no bliss of love
to counteract
actual bliss.
Hilda Doolittle
#55. The world turns softly / Not to spill its lakes and rivers.
Hilda Conkling
#56. The best advice I can give women at all levels is increase training. There are still areas where we have to break through that glass ceiling.
Hilda Solis
#57. My role was to bring about fairness in the workplace. All I did was implement the laws that were currently on the books.
Hilda Solis
#58. Nothing a housewife does is of value in capitalist terms because it does not take place on the market and therefore does not contribute to the Gross National Product.
Hilda Scott
#59. It is impossible to attack the problem of poverty in the industrialized or the developing world effectively unless the extent to which poverty is a women's problem is recognized.
Hilda Scott
#60. Let Love step down,
open the clasped hands,
forfeit the thorny crown,
retrieve the garment
that was whole,
body and spirit one, spirit and soul.
Hilda Doolittle
#61. Could beauty be beaten out,
O youth the cities have sent
to strike at each other's strength,
it is you who have kept her alight.
Hilda Doolittle
#62. I'm more of a writer than a fighter you see.
Luke Pearson
#63. No family should have to depend on the labor of its children to put food on the table and no person should be forced to work in captivity.
Hilda Solis
#64. My niece was a sexual-assault victim. My sister is a survivor of domestic violence. We have more shelters for animals than for battered women. That's not the message we should be sending.
Hilda Solis
#65. Knowledge is a matter of knowing facts. Wisdom is a matter of understanding and applying principles. A certain amount of knowledge is necessary for wisdom, and without wisdom, knowledge is not only useless, it's dangerous.
Hilda Van Stockum
#66. Until it seems the whole city will be covered with gold pollen shaken from the bell-towers, lilies plundered with the weight of massive bees ...
Hilda Doolittle
#67. It is no madness to say
you will fall, you great cities.
Hilda Doolittle
#68. I would hope more people would have optimism about where the Latino has come. How we have emerged, and that there will be more women, women of color especially Latinas who will get involved.
Hilda Solis
#69. Typically, during recessionary times, particular groups suffer higher rates of unemployment -African Americans, and Latinos, and in some cases other minority groups. If you don't have a high level of training or education you're going to fall into that category.
Hilda Solis
#70. If only my heart could abstain
from love.
The more I seethe with desire
The more I seem to attract.
Hilda Ismail
#71. My parents were both union members, and I grew up hearing how important it was to empower workers and have fair labor practices.
Hilda Solis
#72. Passionate grave thought,
belief enhanced,
ritual returned and magic.
Hilda Doolittle
#73. The Greeks have snatched up their spears.
They have pointed the helms of their ships
Toward the bulwarks of Troy.
Hilda Doolittle
#74. We don't have to know,only to be:let go the jumble of worn words,reason and vanity.
Hilda Doolittle
#75. God? A surface of ice anchored to laughter. That was God.
Hilda Hilst
#76. O ruthless, perilous, imperious hate,
you can not thwart
the promptings of my soul.
Hilda Doolittle
#77. No one has the right to threaten the health, education, and well-being of children by involving them in illegal or inappropriate work.
Hilda Solis
#78. The things I have
are nameless,
old and true;
they may not be named;
few may live and know.
Hilda Doolittle
#79. I think hawking is the nearest thing to flying in this world. There you sit high up and poised light as air, the horse swift beneath you. You unhood your bird, let the jesses go and watch your falcon, its bells a-jingle, like some wild spirit take the air ... and your own spirit goes with it.
Hilda Lewis
#80. Who dreams of a son,
save one,
childless, having no bright
face to flatter its own,
who dreams of a son?
Hilda Doolittle
#81. I want companies who get federal contracts to hire more women and minorities from the local area.
Hilda Solis
#82. The 'leisured' wife was a badge of achievement, the ornament to hard work and virtue for families on the way up.
Hilda Scott
#83. Music sets up ladders,
it makes us invisible,
it sets us apart,
it lets us escape;
but from the visible
there is no escape.
Hilda Doolittle
#85. Third tale (aka short stories) - His name is Sun and Adultery. My husband's is Elias. My children are named Enilson and Joaquim. I want them all to die. Except him. (That first one, light and bed.) I'm very sorry, my God, but there it is. Signed: Lazinha.
Hilda Hilst
#86. You are as old as God and as young as the morning.
Hilda Charlton
#87. We are these people,
wistful, ironical, wilful,
who have no part in
new-world reconstruction,
in the confederacy of labour.
Hilda Doolittle
#88. O happy, happy each
man whom predestined fate
leads to the holy rite
of hill and mountain worship.
Hilda Doolittle
#89. Escape
from the power of the hunting pack,
and to know that wisdom is best
and beauty
sheer holiness.
Hilda Doolittle
#90. She thought it must be a lonely life for a boy who hated books.
Hilda Van Stockum
#92. But beauty is set apart,
beauty is cast by the sea,
a barren rock,
beauty is set about
with wrecks of ships ...
Hilda Doolittle
#94. There is no man can take,
there is no pool can slake,
ultimately I am alone;
ultimately I am done.
Hilda Doolittle
#96. For this beauty,
beauty without strength,
chokes out life.
Hilda Doolittle
#97. Dead men would start and move
toward me to learn of love.
Hilda Doolittle
#98. Long hours
trail in their purple
and long years are lost
in just this moment
while our souls are near,
our mouths separate.
Hilda Doolittle
#99. (Those women whom the distaff
no longer claims
nor spun cloth)
driven made,
mad,
mad
by Bacchus.
Hilda Doolittle
#100. Lift up our eyes to you?
no, God, we stare and stare,
upon a nearer thing
that greets us here,
Death, violent and near.
Hilda Doolittle
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