Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
It must be recess in (heaven) if St. Peter is lettin his angels out.
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
Recess
Peter
Angels
Angel
Beauty
Heaven
Must
More quotes by Zora Neale Hurston
So Janie waited a bloom time, and a green time and an orange time.
Zora Neale Hurston
Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
Zora Neale Hurston
I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.
Zora Neale Hurston
She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.
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
Her old thoughts were going to come in handy now, but new words would have to be made and said to fit them.
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
It seems like the first law of Nature is that everybody likes to receive things, but nobody likes to feel grateful.
Zora Neale Hurston
Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
Zora Neale Hurston
If you kin see de light at daybreak, you don't keer if you die at dusk. It's so many people never seen de light at all.
Zora Neale Hurston
The whole matter revolves around the self-respect of my people. How much satisfaction can I get from a court order for somebody toassociate with me who does not wish me near them?
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
I regret all of my books.
Zora Neale Hurston
You heard me. You ain't blind.
Zora Neale Hurston
The liquor of statecraft is distilled from the mash you got.
Zora Neale Hurston
A great state is a well-blended mash of something of all the people and all of none of the people. The liquor of statecraft is distilled from the mash you got.
Zora Neale Hurston
But as de old folk always say, Ah'm born but Ah ain't dead. No tellin' whut Ah'm liable tuh do yet.
Zora Neale Hurston
So she sat on the porch and watched the moon rise. Soon its amber fluid was drenching the earth, and quenching the thirst of the day.
Zora Neale Hurston
Justice, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder.
Zora Neale Hurston
Here was peace. She pulled in her horizon like a great fish-net. Pulled it from around the waist of the world and draped it over her shoulder. So much of life in its meshes! She called in her soul to come and see.
Zora Neale Hurston
