Sueur Quotes

#1. I'm not a religious person; I would call myself an atheist. I don't have a good story behind it, I'm just reasonable.

Anthony Jeselnik

#2. Pears cannot ripen alone. So we ripened together.

Meridel Le Sueur

#3. Each generation must go further than the last or what's the use in it?

Meridel Le Sueur

#4. An abyss seems to have opened between the intellectual cosmopolites of culture and the people, hungry for word and meaning.

Meridel Le Sueur

#5. The history of an oppressed people is hidden in the lies and the agreed myth of its conquerors.

Meridel Le Sueur

#6. You can tell by looking at most people that the world remains a stone to them and a closed door.

Meridel Le Sueur

#7. Suddenly many movements are going on within me, many things are happening, there is an almost unbearable sense of sprouting, of bursting encasements, of moving kernels, expanding flesh.

Meridel Le Sueur

#8. It is true, there could be a metaphysical world; the absolute possibility of it is hardly to be disputed. We behold all things through the human head and cannot cut off this head; while the question nonetheless remains what of the world would still be there if one had cut it off.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#9. These are the stories that never, never die, that are carried like seed into a new country, are told to you and me and make in us new and lasting strengths.

Meridel Le Sueur

#10. Human history is work history. The heroes of the people are work heroes.

Meridel Le Sueur

#11. On a sunny Tuesday - for it seems so many awful things happen on a Tuesday - six astronauts and one schoolteacher attempted to pierce the sky. Instead they touched the stars.

Neal Shusterman

#12. No art can develop until it penetrates deeply into the life of the people.

Meridel Le Sueur

#13. I am me because I choose to be me. I am what I want. Some people say you have to find yourself. Not I. I believe we create ourselves to be what we want.

Tricia Levenseller

#14. Literature must spring from the deep and submerged humus of our life.

Meridel Le Sueur

#15. Linear thinking is patriarchal.

Meridel Le Sueur

#16. Money is only money, beans tonight and steak tomorrow. So long as you can look yourself in the eye.

Meridel Le Sueur

#17. It's not the suffering of birth, death, love that the young reject, but the suffering of endless labor without dream, eating the spare bread in bitterness, being a slave without the security of a slave.

Meridel Le Sueur

#18. Country music is the combination of African and European folk songs coming together and doing a little waltz right here in the American south. They came together at some cotillion, and somebody snuck a black person into the room, and he danced with a white lady, and music was born.

Ketch Secor

#19. Growth is not concerned with itself.

Meridel Le Sueur

#20. To be bound by hungers is a beautiful thing but to be bound by physical hungers only is too low a state for man.

Meridel Le Sueur

#21. They never die, who have the future in them.

Meridel Le Sueur

#22. In terms of my belief that one individual can make a difference - that belief comes from my parents.

Pierre Omidyar

#23. Every sleuth ought to have a tame half-wit, to make him feel clever.

Anonymous

#24. Hard times ain't quit and we ain't quit.

Meridel Le Sueur

#25. I am luminous with age.

Meridel Le Sueur

#26. It was the bumble bee and the butterfly who survived, not the dinosaur.

Meridel Le Sueur

#27. A good civilization gives the greatest possible scope to the common passions and makes them intelligible among the great number of people.

Meridel Le Sueur

#28. True friendship has no boundaries. No parameters. And certainly has no conditions.

Maya Banks

#29. Writing is primarily a sensuous and creative expression of life.

Meridel Le Sueur

#30. Much wisdom often goes with fewest words.

Sophocles

#31. You are an endless conglomeration of awareness. You're not one singular self. You're a corporation.

Frederick Lenz

#32. The body repeats the landscape. They are the source of each other and create each other.

Meridel Le Sueur

#33. But peaceful was the night Wherein the Prince of Light His reign of peace upon the earth began.

John Milton