Quote

More than him has done that, said Antonia sadly, and the girls murmured assent.

Willa Cather

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

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
Heart
Antonia
Assent
Murmured
Sadly
Girls
Girl
Done

More quotes by Willa Cather

Image
Old people, who have felt blows and toil and known the world's hard hand, need, even more than children do, a woman's tenderness.
Willa Cather
Image
The pale, cold light of the winter sunset did not beautify - it was like the light of truth itself.
Willa Cather
Image
Nothing mattered ... but writing books, and living the kind of life that made it possible to write them.
Willa Cather
Image
When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them, as if their reason had left them.
Willa Cather
Image
The soul cannot be humbled by fasts and prayer it must be broken by mortal sin to experience forgiveness of sin and rise to a state of grace. Otherwise, religion is nothing but dead logic.
Willa Cather
Image
The land belongs to the future.
Willa Cather
Image
Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing and disheartening.
Willa Cather
Image
Alcohol is perfectly consistent in its effects upon man. Drunkenness is merely an exaggeration. A foolish man drunk becomes maudlin a bloody man, vicious a coarse man, vulgar.
Willa Cather
Image
One may have staunch friends in one's own family, but one seldom has admirers.
Willa Cather
Image
She had only to stand in the orchard, to put her hand on a little crab tree and look up at the apples, to make you feel the goodness of planting and tending and harvesting at last.
Willa Cather
Image
Alexandra sighed. I have a feeling that if you go away, you will not come back. Something will happen to one of us, or to both. People have to snatch at happiness when they can, in this world. It is always easier to lose than to find. What I have is yours if you care enough about me to take it.
Willa Cather
Image
Life began for me, when I ceased to admire and began to remember.
Willa Cather
Image
Art is a concrete and personal and rather childish thing after all - no matter what people do to graft it into science and make it sociological and psychological it is no good at all unless it is let alone to be itself - a game of make-believe, or re-production, very exciting and delightful to people who have an ear for it or an eye for it.
Willa Cather
Image
Even the wicked get worse than they deserve.
Willa Cather
Image
Your vivid, exciting companionship in the office must not be your audience, you must find your own quiet center of life, and write from that to the world.
Willa Cather
Image
I was thinking, as I watched her, how little it mattered –about her teeth for instance. I know so many women who have kept all the things she had lost, *but whose inner glow has faded*. Whatever else was gone, Antonia had not lost the fire of life.
Willa Cather
Image
All Southern women wished of their menfolk was simply to be 'like Paris handsome and like Hector brave'.
Willa Cather
Image
William Tavener never heeded ominous forecasts in the domestic horizon, and he never looked for a storm until it broke.
Willa Cather
Image
Old men are like that, you know. It makes them feel important to think they are in love with somebody.
Willa Cather
Image
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