Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
Zora Neale Hurston
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Zora Neale Hurston
Age: 69 †
Born: 1891
Born: January 7
Died: 1960
Died: January 28
Anthropologist
Civil Rights Advocate
Film Director
Folklorist
Historian
Journalist
Novelist
Playwright
Writer
Zora N. Hurston
People
Puddle
Puddles
Mud
Ships
Ocean
Look
Looks
Life
More quotes by Zora Neale Hurston
The sun, the hero of every day, the impersonal old man that beams as brightly on death as on birth, came up every morning.
Zora Neale Hurston
It seemed to me that the human beings I met reacted pretty much the same to the same stimuli. Different idioms,yes. Circumstances and conditions having power to influence, yes. Inherent difference, no.
Zora Neale Hurston
I belong to no race nor time. I am the eternal feminine with its string of beads.
Zora Neale Hurston
Oh to be a pear tree – any tree in bloom! With kissing bees singing of the beginning of the world!
Zora Neale Hurston
But for the national welfare, it is urgent to realize that the minorities do think, and think about something other than the race problem.
Zora Neale Hurston
it seems that tears and laughter, love and hate, make up the sum of life!
Zora Neale Hurston
That is the way with people ... If they do you wrong, they invent a bad name for you, a good name for their acts and then destroy you in the name of virtue.
Zora Neale Hurston
You heard me. You ain't blind.
Zora Neale Hurston
Like the dead-seeming, cold rocks, I have memories within that came out of the material that went to make me. Time and place have had their say.
Zora Neale Hurston
There is nothing to make you like other human beings so much as doing things for them.
Zora Neale Hurston
If you want that good feeling that comes from doing things for other folks then you have to pay for it in abuse and misunderstanding.
Zora Neale Hurston
Every morning the world flung itself over and exposed the town to the sun.
Zora Neale Hurston
She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.
Zora Neale Hurston
Africa has her mouth on Moses.
Zora Neale Hurston
Janie saw her life like a great tree in leaf with the things suffered, things enjoyed, things done and undone. Dawn and doom was in the branches
Zora Neale Hurston
Work is the nearest thing to happiness that I can find.
Zora Neale Hurston
Slogans can be worse than swords if they are only put in the right mouths.
Zora Neale Hurston
I do not weep at the world I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
Zora Neale Hurston
There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
Zora Neale Hurston
She knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie’s first dream was dead, so she became a woman.
Zora Neale Hurston
