Hope is an echo, hope ties itself yonder, yonder. |
I am an idealist. I don't know where I'm going but I'm on my way. |
I am the people - the mob - the crowd - the mass. Do you know that all the great work of the world is done through me? |
I feel like I'm drowning. Every night, I'm carrying home loads of things to read but I'm too exhausted. I keep clipping things and Xeroxing them and planning to read them eventually, but I just end up throwing it all away and feeling guilty. |
I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world. |
I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it. |
I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, no just for tomorrow, but in the here and now. Keep moving and forget the post mortems; and remember, no one can get the jump on the future. |
I was up day and night with Lincoln for years. I couldn't have picked a better companion. |
I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth and never cherishes any memory except the face of the woman on the American silver dollar |
I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth. |
I'll die propped up in bed trying to do a poem about America. |
I've written some poetry I don't understand myself. |
If America forgets where she came from, if the people lose sight of what brought them along, if she listens to the deniers and mockers, then will begin the rot and dissolution. |
In the average newspaper there is not a complete suppression of stories that the sacred cows don't want printed. But rather what happens is that the stories get printed with stresses, colorations and emphasis that favor the sacred cows. |
In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning. |