Susanna Moodie Quotes

#1. I met Steve McQueen once. Well, met isn't really the right word.

Griffin Dunne

#2. Ah, Hope! what would life be, stripped of thy encouraging smiles, that teach us to look behind the dark clouds of today, for the golden beams that are to gild the morrow.

Susanna Moodie

#3. I had a creative hot streak in the 1940s and since then I've been pot boiling.

Stephen Shore

#4. If you're a writer, you have to be an egomaniac. You have to just believe in yourself, which is hard work.

James Purdy

#5. The want of education and moral training is the only real barrier that exists between the different classes of men.

Susanna Moodie

#6. Curses, like chickens, come home to roost.

Susanna Moodie

#7. The Indian is one of Nature's gentlemen
he never says or does a rude or vulgar thing. The vicious, uneducated barbarians, who form the surplus of overpopulous European countries, are far behind the wild man in delicacy of feeling or natural courtesy.

Susanna Moodie

#8. It was not my aim to paint about the Negro in America in terms of propaganda. It is to depict the life of my people as I know it, passionately and dispassionately as Brueghel.

Romare Bearden

#9. We have shown that Islam can rule the world perfectly for 14 centuries, and during this time of Muslim power we did not borrow ideas like democracy from others, so why do we need to learn democracy from them now?

Abu Bakar Bashir

#10. I have no wish for a second husband. I had enough of the first. I like to have my own way to lie down mistress, and get up master.

Susanna Moodie

#11. When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Susanna Moodie

#12. Large parties given to very young children ... foster the passions of vanity and envy, and produce a love of dress and display which is very repulsive in the character of a child.

Susanna Moodie

#13. Nature, reason, and Christianity recognize no other. Pride may say Nay; but Pride was always a liar, and a great hater of the truth.

Susanna Moodie

#14. The Canadian people are more practical than imaginative. Romantic tales and poetry would meet with less favour in their eyes than a good political article from their newspapers.

Susanna Moodie