Quote

The first step is what I like to be sure of ... to the second step it often binds you.

Amelia Barr

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Amelia Barr
Autobiographer
Novelist
Writer
Silver Spring
Maryland
Amelia Barr
Amelia Edith Huddleston
Amelia E. Barr
First
Like
Binds
Step
Second
Steps
Sure
Often
Firsts

More quotes by Amelia Barr

Image
But the lover's power is the poet's power. He can make love from all the common strings with which this world is strung.
Amelia Barr
Image
The inevitable has always found me ready and hopeful.
Amelia Barr
Image
Whatever the scientists may say, if we take the supernatural out of life, we leave only the unnatural.
Amelia Barr
Image
the nighttime of the body is the daytime of the soul.
Amelia Barr
Image
I have seen that every one forgives much in themselves that they find unpardonable in other people.
Amelia Barr
Image
It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.
Amelia Barr
Image
I wear the key of memory, and can open every door in the house of my life.
Amelia Barr
Image
A good message will always find a messenger.
Amelia Barr
Image
Injustice is a sixth sense, and rouses all the others.
Amelia Barr
Image
... good and evil are so interwoven in life that every good, traced up far enough, is found to involve evil. This is the great mystery of life.
Amelia Barr
Image
When a man has calamity upon calamity the world generally concludes that he must be a very wicked man to deserve them. Perhaps the world is right but it is also just possible that the world ... may be wrong.
Amelia Barr
Image
What we buy, and pay for, is part of ourselves.
Amelia Barr
Image
Human relations are built on feeling, not on reason or knowledge. And feeling is not an exact science like all spiritual qualities, it has the vagueness of greatness about it.
Amelia Barr
Image
The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on them.
Amelia Barr
Image
the matrimonial shoe pinches me.
Amelia Barr
Image
Death is like the setting of the sun. The sun never sets life never ceases. ... we think the sun sets, and it never ceases shining we think our friends die, and they never cease living.
Amelia Barr
Image
To take offence is a great folly, and to give offence is a great folly - I know not which is the greater.
Amelia Barr
Image
Solitude is such a potential thing. We hear voices in solitude, we never hear in the hurry and turmoil of life we receive counsels and comforts, we get under no other condition.
Amelia Barr
Image
... how poorly do we love even those whom we love most! We are not only bruised by the limitations of their love for us, but also by the limitations of our own love for them.
Amelia Barr
Image
the breed is more than the pasture. As you know, the cuckoo lays her eggs in any bird's nest it may be hatched among blackbirds or robins or thrushes, but it is always a cuckoo. ... a man cannot deliver himself from his ancestors.
Amelia Barr