American Author Quotes

The best hiding spots are not the most hidden; they're merely the least searched.

We get mad, sure! Like ice an' snow an' thunder an' lightning storm, but they don't hurt the wheat down in the ground any.' Mom picked up her whitewash brush and slapped it against the rough boards. 'Yolochka, you don't know how love is yet.'

Propaganda is a weapon that the Confederacy wields best, and wields heaviest. It is their hammer. And when all you have is a hammer, then everything looks like a nail.

Peaches grow wild, and pigs can live in clover;
A barrel of salted herrings lasts a year;
The spring begins before the winter's over.

A man sat on a rock and sought Refreshment from his thumb; A dinotherium wandered by And scared him some. His name was Smith. The kind of rock He sat upon was shale. One feature quite distinguished him: He had a tail.

David Law Proudfit

The goal of the human experience is to transform ourselves from being who long to attain power in the physical world to beings who are empowered from within.

Wasn't no "death do us part" in slavery; wasn't even no "dead or sold" less'n two peoples made it that. Far as two peoples loving with each other, it was any handy place if you was willing —and sometimes if you wasn't; or you jumped the broom if the masters let you marry. But you couldn't help dreaming. Dreams was one of the reasons you got up the next day.

Sherley Anne Williams

The moon drowsed between the trees like a great yellow moth.

Hallie Erminie Rives

What would people look like
if we could see them as they are,
soaked in honey, stung and swollen,
reckless, pinned against time?

Those who do not know how to see the precious things in life will never be happy.

Some things never leave a person:
scent of the hair of one you love,
the texture of persimmons,
in your palm, the ripe weight.

Only Death could teach us love
By Death we shall grow wise.

Anna Hempstead Branch

Don't you think there is always something unspoken between two people?

Tennessee Williams

Fly humbly,
when you fly;
walk,
when you can.

Only once you destroy who you think you are can you embrace who you truly are

It has taken a great deal of energy, which has not been so difficult to summon as the necessary patience to wait, simply wait much of the time - until my instincts assured me that I had assembled my materials in proper order for a final welding into their natural form.

Love is the answer, that everyone seeks...Love is the language, that every heart speaks.

Helen Steiner Rice

If the doctors cure
then the sun sees it.
If the doctors kill
then the earth hides it.
The doctors should fear arrogance
more than cardiac arrest.

We are striving to forge our union with purpose.
To compose a country committed to all cultures, colors, characters, and conditions of man.

Rather than being afraid to ask for help, remember this: When you ask someone to help you, you are actually doing them a tremendous favor by giving them an opportunity to feel needed.

Richard Carlson

That enchantment that I lightly took
Out of the lovely April is for ever.

The soul of the river had entered my soul, And the gathered power of my soul was moving So swiftly, it seemed to be at rest Under cities of cloud and under Spheres of silver and changing worlds Until I saw a flash of trumpets Above the battlements over Time!

Edgar Lee Masters

Men want a challenge, but they want a challenge they can win.

Whitney Gaskell

If only we could touch the things of this world at their center, if we could only hear tiny leaves of birch struggling toward April, then we would know.

And brown is the papaw's shade-blossoming cup, In the wood, near the sun-loving maize!