Famous Quotes - Page 17

Quote from “Tell My Horse: Voodoo And Life In Haiti And Jamaica (1938)”

A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.

Zora Neale Hurston

Quote from “Letters To His Son W.B. Yeats And Others 1869-1922”

Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.

- John Butler Yeats

Quote from “Poor Richard's Almanack”

If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth writing

Benjamin Franklin

Quote from “Letter To Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1870)”

If I read a book [and] it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. These are the only ways I know it. Is there any other way?

Emily Dickinson