Ella Wheeler Wilcox Quotes

A weed is but an unloved flower.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 5, 1850 - October 30, 1919

Topics

FlowerGardeningWeedUnloved

I remember stealing some pic n' mix when I was seven; when I got out of the shop, I burst into tears.

Jessica Brown Findlay

TearsRememberStealingOutGotMix

Live fast, die young, and leave a good looking corpse.

John Derek

GoodLiveLookingDieFastYoung

Nine out of 10 war victims die from a gun.

Andrew Niccol

WarGunDieOutVictimsNine

The hard thing for me is to say no to people.

Ann Packer

PeopleMeSayHardHard ThingThing

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

Jean-Paul Sartre

EatDestructionAppropriate

It seems disingenuous to ask a writer why she, or he, is writing about a violent subject when the world and history are filled with violence.

Joyce Carol Oates

HistoryWritingWorldViolenceWhy

I farm taro. I have eight varieties of taro, which is a staple of the Hawaiian people from about 2,000 years ago, and sweet potatoes, and it's a sustainable living, agriculture, off the grid.

Jason Scott Lee

PeopleSweetFarmAgricultureLiving

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.

Doug Larson

WisdomListeningYouRewardTalk

Little Walter and Muddy Waters were incredible. And Bo Diddley was doing some great stuff, too.

Columbus Short

GreatDoingLittleIncredibleStuff

Perhaps the gravest under-publicized atrocity in the world is the persecution of Christians.

Conrad Black

WorldPersecutionChristiansPerhaps

I've had a normal life, but I have struggled to get here. It hasn't been handed to me and it hasn't been easy.

Ashley Tisdale

LifeMeEasyNormalHereGet

Banish the words 'I can't' from your vocabulary. Remember: If 'can't' equals 'won't', 'can' equals 'will.'

Phyllis George

WordsRememberWillVocabularyYour

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