Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person.
Willa Cather
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Willa Cather
Age: 73 †
Born: 1873
Born: December 7
Died: 1947
Died: April 24
Author
Biographer
Essayist
Journalist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Willa Sibert Cather
Women
Persons
Person
Nobleness
Build
Security
Upon
Another
More quotes by Willa Cather
When we look back, the only things we cherish are those which in some way met our original want the desire which formed in us in early youth, undirected, and of its own accord.
Willa Cather
The voice is a wild thing. It can't be bred in captivity.
Willa Cather
Pity is sworn servant unto love: And this be sure, wherever it begin To make the way, it lets your master in.
Willa Cather
Oh, the Germans classify, but the French arrange.
Willa Cather
Personal hatred and family affection are not incompatible they often flourish and grow strong together.
Willa Cather
What if - what if Life itself were the sweetheart?
Willa Cather
Sometimes, I ventured, it doesn't occur to boys that their mother was ever young and pretty. . . I couldn't stand it if you boys were inconsiderate, or thought of her as if she were just somebody who looked after you. You see I was very much in love with your mother once, and I know there's nobody like her.
Willa Cather
Men travel faster now, but I do not know if they go to better things.
Willa Cather
Hunger is a powerful incentive to introspection.
Willa Cather
Loyal? As loyal as anyone who plays second fiddle ever is.
Willa Cather
Some people's lives are affected by what happens to their person or their property but for others fate is what happens to their feelings and their thoughts -- that and nothing more.
Willa Cather
Wherever humanity has made that hardest of all starts and lifted itself out of mere brutality is a sacred spot.
Willa Cather
The sky was a midnight-blue, like warm, deep, blue water, and the moon seemed to lie on it like a water-lily, floating forward with an invisible current.
Willa Cather
Some things are best learned in calm, others in storm.
Willa Cather
The emptiness was intense, like the stillness in a great factory when the machinery stops running.
Willa Cather
I've seen it before. There are women who spread ruin through no fault of theirs, just by being too beautiful, too ful of life and love. They can't help it. Poeple come to them as people go to a warm fire in winter.
Willa Cather
I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do. I feel as if this tree knows everything I ever think of when I sit here. When I come back to it, I never have to remind it of anything I begin just where I left off.
Willa Cather
If you don't keep and guard and mature your force, and above all, have time and quiet to perfect your work, you will be writing things not much better than you did five years ago.
Willa Cather
People can be lovers and enemies at the same time, you know.
Willa Cather
If we never arrived anywhere, it did not matter. Between that earth and that sky i felt erased, blotted out. I did not say my prayers that night: here, i felt what would be would be.
Willa Cather
