Eudora Welty Quotes

It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming of themselves like grass.

Eudora Welty

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: April 13, 1909 - July 23, 2001

Topics

PeopleMeStoryFindGrassOut

To lose two babies is really scary. It really caught on me emotionally, physically, everything. It took me at least 15 years to get over it and still, to this day, I miss my son.

Mayte Garcia

SonDayMeLoseOverEverything

Nadal and Roger Federer have great respect for each other. I think Novak Djokovic gets under those two guys' skin a little bit, and maybe they don't want to admit it, and I think that's, in a way, healthy.

John McEnroe

RespectGreatThinkSkinHealthy

Real estate is the key cost of physical retailers. That's why there's the old saw: location, location, location.

Jeff Bezos

Real EstateKeyWhyOldRealCost

I wouldn't approach the issue of judging in the way the president does. Judges can't rely on what's in their heart. They don't determine the law. Congress makes the law. The job of a judge is to apply the law.

Sonia Sotomayor

HeartJobLawJudgeJudgingWay

No genre of music is better than another, whether it's country, hip-hop, trap, classical, whatever. It's all music.

Stromae

MusicBetterCountryHip-HopTrap

Many women are pear-shaped and tend to wear jeans that are too loose. They need to focus on what jeans will re-proportion their body.

Trinny Woodall

WomenFocusBodyWillNeedJeans

I did not know I was in my prime until afterwards.

Mason Cooley

KnowPrimeDidAfterwardsUntil

The world has lost faith in American leadership, and the threats are mounting.

Michael T. Flynn

LeadershipFaithWorldAmericanLost

In order to understand why George W. Bush doesn't get it, you have to take several strands of common Texas attitude, then add an impressive degree of class-based obliviousness. What you end up with is a guy who sees himself as a perfectly nice fellow - and who is genuinely disconnected from the impact of his decisions on people.

Molly Ivins

AttitudePeopleTexasEndImpact

Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.

Luigi Pirandello

LifeLiveManValuePlantsMeaning

I think politics are a very personal thing.

Jason Isbell

PoliticsThinkPersonalI ThinkVery

I'm not good with sci-fi stuff. I'll be in it, as long as I can see what I'm dealing with and know it's fake. As soon as I watch it on TV, though, my brain registers it as 'Everything's real!'

Chelan Simmons

GoodBrainFakeLongI CanKnow

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