Top 100 Rawlings Quotes

#1. While I do, I'll be comforted in knowing that no one else has ever loved as completely or has been as loved, as I have been by Anthony Rawlings.

Aleatha Romig

Rawlings Quotes #80671
#2. I have made some bad decisions ... and done some things I regret in my life ... but without a doubt ... what I regret the most ... is divorcing you. If you tell me there is hope, that one day you'll be Mrs. Rawlings again, I will wait.

Aleatha Romig

Rawlings Quotes #358678
#3. Esme Rawlings is as intelligent as she is dissolute.

Eloisa James

Rawlings Quotes #578542
#4. Mr. Rawlings is a man of his word. The problem was, he made two different promises and he felt honored to keep them both. He hoped that by fulfilling one, in a different than expected way, he may have the chance to rectify the other.

Aleatha Romig

Rawlings Quotes #633870
#5. Mr Anthony Rawlings had a lesson to learn and Claire claimed the role as teacher.

Aleatha Romig

Rawlings Quotes #723086
#6. The ocean breeze returned, stinging his eyes, causing moisture to pool. He blinked it away before Claire could see, because ... Anthony Rawlings didn't apologize and he didn't cry ... that's the truth.

Aleatha Romig

Rawlings Quotes #765423
#7. Does one fight when one knows she can't win? Does one protest when she knows it falls on deaf ears? Does one pray for escape, even if death is the most viable alternative? ~ Claire Nichols Rawlings

Aleatha Romig

Rawlings Quotes #791315
#8. In their figurative game of chess, Anthony Rawlings had Claire in check. Every move she made, he countered.

Aleatha Romig

Rawlings Quotes #1077209
#9. My father-in-law, Barney Rawlings, spent a couple of months hiding out in France in 1944, frantically memorizing a few French words to pass himself off as a Frenchman, but his ordeal had not inspired in me any action until I started taking a French class.

Bobbie Ann Mason

Rawlings Quotes #1155618
#10. My only excuse is that I have no reputation myself, and I am thereby well aware of its ephemeral value. Reputation is worthless.
Sebastian Bonnington's love letter to Esme Rawlings

Eloisa James

Rawlings Quotes #1244757
#11. As the tears coated his cheeks, he told himself, Anthony Rawlings doesn't cry. He doesn't apologize, and he doesn't

Aleatha Romig

Rawlings Quotes #1247820
#12. Marry me, Esme. Please. Honor me. I will honor you as your husband never did. Our marriage would be a remedy against sin, if anyone could ever call it a sin to love you.
Sebastian Bonnington to Esme Rawlings

Eloisa James

Rawlings Quotes #1761552
#13. As soon as I had a guitar I loved it, and I started playing in every spare moment.

David Rawlings

Rawlings Quotes #3496
#14. Living was no longer the grief behind him, but the anxiety ahead.

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Rawlings Quotes #17716
#15. Challenge yourself with something you know you could never do, and what you'll find is that you can overcome anything son.

Donnell Rawlings

Rawlings Quotes #19708
#16. Ma Baxter rocked complacently. They were all pleased whenever she made a joke. Her good nature made the same difference in the house as the hearth-fire had made in the chill of the evening.

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Rawlings Quotes #40348
#17. They listened with flattering attention. He was filled with enthusiasm. He began at the beginning and tried to tell it as he thought Penny would do. Half-way through, he looked down at the cake. He lost interest in the account.
"Then Pa shot him," he ended abruptly.

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Rawlings Quotes #47478
#18. Garlic, like perfume, must be used with discretion and on the proper occasions.

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Rawlings Quotes #48021
#19. They were all too tightly bound together, men and women, creatures wild and tame, flowers, fruits and leaves, to ask that any one be spared. As long as the whole continued, the earth could go about its business.

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Rawlings Quotes #49679
#20. Now he understood. This was death. Death was a silence that gave back no answer.

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Rawlings Quotes #87452
#21. (The city is being) destroyed by thugs who in a very senseless way are trying to tear down what so many have fought for, tearing down businesses, tearing down or destroying property, things that we know will impact our community for years.

Stephanie Rawlings-Blake

Rawlings Quotes #91121
#22. Ever' man wants life to be a fine thing, and a easy. 'Tis fine, boy, powerful fine, but 'taint easy.

--Penny Baxter to his son, Jody

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Rawlings Quotes #106162
#23. I just had a baby girl. My daughter weighed 27 pounds. She was 3 years old. She was delivered to me by way of the court system and a blood test.

Donnell Rawlings

Rawlings Quotes #108720
#24. A part of the placidity of the South comes from the sense of well-being that follows the heart-and-body-warming consumption of breads fresh from the oven. We serve cold baker's bread to our enemies, trusting that they will never impose on our hospitality again.

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Rawlings Quotes #121262
#25. People have a right to their opinion.

Stephanie Rawlings-Blake

Rawlings Quotes #207226
#26. It is my conviction that the personality of the writer has nothing to do with the literate product of his mind. And publicity in this case embarrasses me because I am acutely conscious of how far short the book falls of the artistry I am struggling to achieve. It's like being caught half-dressed.

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Rawlings Quotes #247823
#27. That very aggressive, unapologetic leadership style is needed in Washington, D.C., and I'm not afraid to tackle big issues.

Stephanie Rawlings-Blake

Rawlings Quotes #312587
#28. I do not understand how anyone can live without some small place of enchantment to turn to.

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Rawlings Quotes #321329
#29. Eulalie in a remote fashion belonged to him, Jody, to do with as he pleased, if only to throw potatoes at her.

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Rawlings Quotes #336404
#30. Life is a difficult matter, and the more a simple man may learn of what greater men have thought, and taught, have spoken and have written, the better can he cope with any sort of life.

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Rawlings Quotes #359883
#31. A dead tree, falling, made less havoc than a live one. It seemed as though a live tree went down fighting, like an animal.

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Rawlings Quotes #361774
#32. You kin tame arything, son, excusin' the human tongue.

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Rawlings Quotes #374778
#33. Somewhere beyond the sink-hole, past the magnolia, under the live oaks, a boy and a yearling ran side by side, and were gone forever.

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Rawlings Quotes #375764
#34. I have found that each of my books has developed out of something I have written in a previous book. Some thought evidently unfinished.

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Rawlings Quotes #380589
#35. Tiger Woods is stupid; not for cheating, but for having one cell phone. What type of player you know has one cell phone?

Donnell Rawlings

Rawlings Quotes #381912
#36. Now, having left cities behind me, turned
Away forever from the strange, gregarious
Huddling of men by stones, I find those various
Great towns I knew fused into one, burned
Together in the fire of my despising ...

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Rawlings Quotes #396983
#37. It seems to me that the earth may be borrowed but not bought. It may be used, but not owned ... We are tenants and not possessors, lovers and not masters.

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Rawlings Quotes #439200
#38. A wish, a dream, a miracle - Whatever it is, it's real.

Aleatha Romig

Rawlings Quotes #461066
#39. The wild animals seemed less predatory to him than people he had known.

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Rawlings Quotes #462929
#40. When I started off in DC, you didn't get viral first. You got funny first.

Donnell Rawlings

Rawlings Quotes #480199
#41. I don't doubt you can handle it; you've
handled so much. You've always been so strong. It's what - "
"I know - it's what infuriated you about me."
He squeezed her hand. "Yes - and it's
what made me fall in love with you.

Aleatha Romig

Rawlings Quotes #530449
#42. You can't change a man, no-ways. By the time his mummy turns him loose and he takes up with some innocent woman and marries her, he's what he is.

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Rawlings Quotes #550286
#43. If Elvis is alive, Tupac is alive. I saw Tupac on 46th Street selling Biggie t-shirts 2 for 10 dollars ...

Donnell Rawlings

Rawlings Quotes #565025
#44. Yet it was . . . Asahel who knew those books secretly by heart, and read, as laboriously as he did everything else, any scrap of paper with printing on it, poring hungrily over the magic of words.

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Rawlings Quotes #573345
#45. Readers themselves, I think, contribute to a book. They add their own imaginations, and it is as though the writer only gave them something to work on, and they did the rest.

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Rawlings Quotes #579947
#46. But to make the intangible tangible, to pick the emotion out of the air and make it true for others, is both the blessing and the curse of the writer, for the thing between book covers is never as beautiful as the thing he imagined.

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Rawlings Quotes #581298
#47. She lives a sophisticate's life among worldly people. At the slightest excuse she steps out of civilization, naked and relieved, as I should step out of a soiled chemise.

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Rawlings Quotes #599060
#48. I'm not throwing you away! I'm setting you free.

Aleatha Romig

Rawlings Quotes #611873
#49. A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life, to be thankful for a good one.

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Rawlings Quotes #625168
#50. Personal publicity is apt to be dangerous to any writer's integrity; for the moment he begins to fancy himself as quite a person, a taint creeps into his work.

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Rawlings Quotes #632208
#51. She put her arms around his waist and looked up at his face. "I did? What did I take?"
He bent down to kiss her. She stood to meet
him halfway. His lips softly touched her lips and her neck as his hands became tangled in her hair.
"I believe it was my heart.

Aleatha Romig

Rawlings Quotes #636667
#52. Here in Florida the seasons move in and out like nuns in soft clothing, making no rustle in their passing.

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Rawlings Quotes #637158
#53. Lifting his head to gently kiss her lips, he whispered, "I trust you." Then he covered his own eyes with her satin mask.

Aleatha Romig

Rawlings Quotes #642280
#54. Good" is what helps us or at least does not hinder. "Evil" is whatever harms us or interferes with us, according to our own selfish standards.

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Rawlings Quotes #651545
#55. I had done battle with a great fear and the victory was mine.

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Rawlings Quotes #658861
#56. It is not death that kills us, but life. We are done to death by life.

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Rawlings Quotes #681089
#57. Hit don't make no difference what a man perfesses. I been in a heap o' churches. There's the Nazarene Church and the Pentecost and the Holy Rollers and the Baptists and I don't know what-all. I cain't see much difference to nary one of 'em. There's a good to all of 'em and there's a bad.

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Rawlings Quotes #690699
#58. Lives are only one with living. How dare we, in our egos, claim catastrophe in the rise and fall of the individual entity? There is only Life, and we are beads strung on its strong and endless thread.

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Rawlings Quotes #714119
#59. Information can be passed from one to another, like a silver dollar. There's absolutely no wisdom except what you learn for yourself.

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Rawlings Quotes #723100
#60. People in general are totally unable to detach the personality of a writer from the products of his thinking.

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Rawlings Quotes #726582
#61. He wrote:
Dear ollever; yor ol twinkk has dun gode up the rivver. im gladd. yor friend jody.

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Rawlings Quotes #726920
#62. He set down the milk pails to rest and stared at the bright house. This was a man's great joy, to come at nightfall after his day's work to a lighted house. . . . and his beloved was waiting for him with food and warmth and comfort.

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Rawlings Quotes #730468
#63. That's why when I talk to younger comics, and they say, 'Well I need this and this, and I need so and so,' I tell them they don't need nothing. All you need is some great idea and go shoot it.

Donnell Rawlings

Rawlings Quotes #740691
#64. A man'll seem like a person to a woman, year in, year out. She'll put up and she'll put up. Then one day he'll do something maybe no worse than what he's been a-doing all his life. She'll look at him. And without no warning he'll look like a varmint.

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Rawlings Quotes #755154
#65. The individual man is transitory, but the pulse of life and of growth goes on after he is gone, buried under a wreath of magnolia leaves.

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Rawlings Quotes #771598
#66. The best fish in the world are of course those one catches oneself.

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Rawlings Quotes #785403
#67. You do somethin' for me? Go tell Twink I'll meet her at the old grove Tuesday about dusk-dark."
Jody was frozen.
He burst out, "I won't do it. I hate her. Ol' yellow-headed somethin'.

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Rawlings Quotes #803606
#68. A woman never forgets the men she could have had; a man, the women he couldn't

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Rawlings Quotes #829213
#69. It had been so brief a sojourn, not even a full century. He had been a guest in a mansion and he was not ungrateful. He was at once exhausted and refreshed. His stay was ended. Now he must gather up the shabby impedimenta of his mind and body and be on his way again.

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Rawlings Quotes #865570
#70. I'll walk off the rest of my mad.

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Rawlings Quotes #886124
#71. She drew gallantry from men as the sun drew water. Her pertness enchanted them. Young men went away from her with a feeling of bravado. Old men were enslaved by her silver curls. Something about her was forever female and made all men virile.

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Rawlings Quotes #898947
#72. No case of libel by a negro against a white would even reach a southern court.

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Rawlings Quotes #916007
#73. Let's take our babies home and abide by the curfew. I want to thank you for understanding that we want to bring peace.

Stephanie Rawlings-Blake

Rawlings Quotes #917245
#74. We cannot live without the Earth or apart from it, and something is shrivelled in a man's heart when he turns away from it and concerns himself only with the affairs of men

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Rawlings Quotes #927929
#75. Rise and grind ... the money ain't gonna wait for you while you sleep son.

Donnell Rawlings

Rawlings Quotes #933691
#76. My life hasn't been perfect, yet I've never wasted my time envying anyone else. If something wasn't the best it could be - I made it better.

Aleatha Romig

Rawlings Quotes #944429
#77. Well, son, you cain't go thru life chunkin' things at all the ugly women you meet.

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Rawlings Quotes #946654
#78. Sift each of us through the great sieve of circumstance and you have a residue, great or small as the case may be, that is the man or the woman.

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Rawlings Quotes #977089
#79. The best thing about where comedy is now is if you have a little bit of talent and a strong work ethic, and strong social skills, you can make a name for yourself and you can make money.

Donnell Rawlings

Rawlings Quotes #977238
#80. Pull the trigger.

Troy Rawlings

Rawlings Quotes #1000862
#81. The inferred is always more effective than the obvious.

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Rawlings Quotes #1009972
#82. I'm eating' it quick ... but I'll remember it a long time.

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Rawlings Quotes #1012745
#83. This was wrong. Tony didn't want to have feelings. The sex was great. It was okay to want her, dominate her, and control her. It was not okay to want to be with her, please her, and love her. Yet every one of his senses desired Claire.

Aleatha Romig

Rawlings Quotes #1031765
#84. She was not unattractive until she focused her eyes on a human being, when their unblinking coldness gave the effect of the stare of an adder.

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Rawlings Quotes #1045779
#85. I understand the frustration of the community, i want citizens to know exactly how it happened, and if necessary, I will ensure that we hold the right people accountable.

Stephanie Rawlings-Blake

Rawlings Quotes #1046272
#86. He was addled with April. He was dizzy with Spring. He was as drunk as Lem Forrester on a Saturday night.

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Rawlings Quotes #1055110
#87. Jody said, "Ma, you're shore good."
"Oh, yes. When it's rations."
"Well, I'd a heap ruther you was good about rations and mean about other things."
"Oh, I be mean, be I?"
"Only about jest a very few things," he soothed her.

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Rawlings Quotes #1056252
#88. I'm not blind to the fact that we have to do a better job with our relationships between the community and police.

Stephanie Rawlings-Blake

Rawlings Quotes #1081616
#89. It is not that death comes, but that life leaves.

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Rawlings Quotes #1083371
#90. To comfort any mortal against loneliness, one other is enough.

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Rawlings Quotes #1152003
#91. Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Rawlings Quotes #1154456
#92. Good God, with a bounty
Look down on Marion County,
For the soil is so pore, and so awful rooty, too,
I don't know what to God the pore folks gonna do.

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Rawlings Quotes #1166414
#93. Tiger Woods is a billionaire. Do you know how much ass you can get with a billion dollars? I know guys with $20 and a pack of Newports who'd try to screw your whole neighborhood.

Donnell Rawlings

Rawlings Quotes #1179172
#94. It is impossible to be among the woods animals on their own ground without a feeling of expanding one's own world, as when any foreign country is visited.

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Rawlings Quotes #1192423
#95. To Be Young (is to be sad, is to be high)

David Rawlings

Rawlings Quotes #1202355
#96. Life is strong stuff, some of us can bear more of it than others.

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Rawlings Quotes #1228673
#97. The test of beauty is whether it can survive close knowledge.

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Rawlings Quotes #1233242
#98. God help me, I do care about you. Gently hugging her against his chest, he tenderly moved her hair away from her angelic face. Seeing her sleep, peaceful and trusting, his thoughts of waking
her for his desires were quickly replaced.

Aleatha Romig

Rawlings Quotes #1241599
#99. Fear is the most easily taught of all lessons, and the fight against terror, real or imagined, is perhaps the history of man's mind.

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Rawlings Quotes #1244769
#100. The better alternative to fighting a guy, go have sex with his girlfriend. That's how you knock a dude out!

Donnell Rawlings

Rawlings Quotes #1289087

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