thoughts are acrobats, agile and quite often untrustworthy.
BESS STREETER ALDRICHthoughts are acrobats, agile and quite often untrustworthy.
More Bess Streeter Aldrich Quotes
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I think that love is more like a light that you carry. At first childish happiness keeps it lighted and after that romance. Then motherhood lights it and then duty . . . and maybe after that sorrow.
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In 1846 the prairie town of Oak River existed only in a settler’s dream.
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Our souls may all be equal in the sight of the Lord, but our gumption and ingenuity ain’t. So the results of man’s labor will never be equal.
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Christmas Eve was a night of song that wrapped itself about you like a shawl. But it warmed more than your body. It warmed your heart…filled it, too, with melody that would last forever.
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You wouldn’t think that sorrow could be a light, would you, dearie? But it can. And then after that, service lights it. Yes. . . . I think that is what love is to a woman . . . a lantern in her hand.
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Biggest affirmative argument I know in favor of ‘If a man die, shall he live again?’ is just the way you feel inside you that nothin’ can stop you from livin’ on.
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Katherine it was who took upon herself the complete charge of [Junior’s] speech. Not an insignificant “have went” nor an infinitesimal
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For though love has been ridiculed and disgraced, exchanged and bartered, dragged through the courts, and sold for thirty pieces of silver, the bright, steady glow of its fire still shines on the hearth-stones of countless homes.
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Junior was eleven. The statement is significant. There are a few peevish people in the world who believe that all eleven-year-old boys ought to be hung. Others, less irritable, think that gently chloroforming them would seem more humane.
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It was true, she thought, that the big things awe us but the little things touch us.
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They are the most painful tears in the world … the tears of the aged … for they come from dried beds where the emotions have long burned low.
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Mrs. Schneiderman’s theory of life was that earth held no sorrow that food could not heal.
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It takes a small town to keep you humble.
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Things last so much longer than people.
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Love is the light that you see by.
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