Ruth Stout Quotes

#1. But most important...what kind of father can look his own son in the eyes...even after all these years...and not even recognize him!

Dan Brown

#2. Man makes a great fuss about this planet which is only a ballbearing in the hub of the universe.

Christopher Morley

#3. The physical world was one vast, tangled obstacle course of pointless, arbitrary restrictions. We'd

Greg Egan

#4. The bliss that comes from ignorance should seldom be encouraged for it is likely to do one out of a more satisfying bliss.

Ruth Stout

#5. Working in the garden gives me something beyond the enjoyment of the senses. It gives me a profound feeling of inner peace.

Ruth Stout

#6. When we contemplate buying something, we usually ask the price of it, then decide whether or not it is worth that much to us. But when we expend time and energy, we often just go ahead and pay.

Ruth Stout

#7. No matter how attractive a person's potential may be, you have to date their reality.

Mandy Hale

#8. If we dare examine our decisions, we will see our values woven in and through every single one of them. Therefore, it would do us well to take an occasional peek to insure that our values remain at their peak.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#9. Between the time of Jesus and the 20th century, 19 million people were executed for trivial offenses.68

Steven Pinker

#10. I've never spoken to Bon Iver, but I would love to. I'm a huge fan!

Birdy

#11. The unmulched garden looks to me like some naked thing which for one reason or another would be better off with a few clothes on.

Ruth Stout

#12. More lightly do his sorrows press upon a man, when to a friend or fellow traveller he tells his griefs.

Callimachus

#13. There is a privacy about it which no other season gives you ... In spring, summer and fall people sort of have an open season on each other; only in the winter, in the country, can you have longer, quiet stretches when you can savor belonging to yourself.

Ruth Stout

#14. The central paradox and challenge of marriage is that we have to make family out of someone we're not related to ...

Ruth Stout

#15. There can be no security anywhere in the free world if there is no fiscal and economic stability within the United States.

Ronald Reagan

#16. Why do people who like to get up early look with disdain on those who like to lie in bed late? And why do people who like to work feel superior to those who prefer to dream?

Ruth Stout

#17. There are worse things than being robbed ... " I could smell the sick old-meat stench on his breath, like he really had eaten my grandmother. " ... worse things than dyin' even. You be a good boy, Little Red, and maybe you'll get to live awhile. Maybe you'll get to die in your own natural time.

Neal Shusterman

#18. Your turn has come to sift through the dreck of humanity for rare specks of originality

David Mitchell

#19. There's nothing like love or incumbent death to make you realize how many things you still want to do.

Monica La Porta

#20. Farmers are philosophical. They have learned that it is less wearing to shrug than to beat their breasts.

Ruth Stout

#21. I'm more socialist certainly than New Labour - I'm very old Labour, really.

Alan Bennett

#22. I love spring anywhere, but if I could choose I would always greet in a garden.

Ruth Stout

#23. It's a fair-sized job to write a book that people can be bothered just to read; when they begin to steal copies, you are really getting some place.

Ruth Stout

#24. If you have the soul of a gardener, not for anything would you work with gloves on.

Ruth Stout

#25. God is not against money, He is against the money been used outside His purpose

Sunday Adelaja

#26. There is peace in the garden. Peace and results.

Ruth Stout