Candace Wheeler Quotes & Sayings

Brown people and black people and red people swarmed through our great halls, until those who were white looked simply faded-out human beings beside them. Indeed, I came to see that white is not a color in skin any more than in textiles, and if it had not quality, it had no value even for humanity. I saw that color in skin had a certain advantage in strength and warmth as a means of beauty. — Candace Wheeler

Perpetuity in a home is a blanket for the cold years that come with age. — Candace Wheeler

A great magazine is sort of a net for ability ... — Candace Wheeler

If the physical perfection of childhood could last, what a possesssion it would be for humanity! — Candace Wheeler

And then came a time when I could no longer say 'We,' and I found myself in a lonesome land where no one remembered that I had ever been young, or called me by my given name. — Candace Wheeler

One of the most perfect and unfailing joys of life is planting. It is the creative joy felt by God ... — Candace Wheeler

Peace is the wait of the patient soul. — Candace Wheeler

Poor, successful, fallible Republican party! If it could only have kept the purity of the patriot impulse of which it was born! — Candace Wheeler

Blessed be those souls who are glad! They are a salve for sorrow and fatigue. A sun in days of darkness, a joy in sorrow, a ray of heaven shining through the uncertainness of earth. — Candace Wheeler