Quotes & Sayings About Ethan Frome's Poverty

How strong these people were to leave such a lasting impression. — Rudolfo Anaya

I bet you cook good, huh?" Darlene asked.
"Mother doesn't cook," Ignatius said dogmatically.
"She burns. — John Kennedy Toole

I don't have a favorite place to play. — Keren Ann

Most of us do more than subsist. From the vantage point of our ancestors, we live lives of almost unimaginable ease. Here again, we have innovation to thank. — Gary Hamel

Crossing over mountains, rivers, arid oceans, setting at naught, as it were, the obstacles of the distance of space and time, the blood of Indian thought has flowed, and is still flowing into the veins of other nations of the globe, whether in a distinct or in some subtle unknown way. Perhaps to us belongs the major portion of the universal ancient inheritance. — Swami Vivekananda

At birth one is Shudra, through education and samskaras, one becomes cultured (Dwija or twice born), then by practicing the Vedas, one becomes Vipra or knowledgeable and it is only by acquiring the knowledge of the Absolute Brahm, does one become enlightened or Brahmin. — Kamlesh Kapur

The grackles sing avant the spring
Most spiss oh! Yes, most spissantly.
They sing right puissantly. — Wallace Stevens

It is not female egotism to say that the future of mankind may very well be ours to determine. It is a fact. — Shirley Chisholm

My nation is the Portuguese language,' he declared through Bernardo Soares (Text 259), but he also said: 'I don't write in Portuguese. I write my own self. — Fernando Pessoa

It's taken me a lot of years to peel away my own layers. — Nick Offerman

As I studied the remians of book pages, scatered among the ashes, my heart sank. — Julie Kagawa

Arthritis vanishes, myopia gets better, heart illness decreases, asthma disappears, stomachs function properly and the whole catalogue of illnesses goes away and stays away. — L. Ron Hubbard

The difficulty comes from this, that Christianity (Christian orthodoxy) is exclusive and that belief in its truth excludes belief in any other truth. It does not absorb; it repulses. — Andre Gide

... Pfiffikus, whose vulgarity made Rosa Hubermann look like a wordsmith and a saint. — Markus Zusak