Zora Neale Hurston Quotes

It's a funny thing, the less people have to live for, the less nerve they have to risk losing nothing.

Zora Neale Hurston

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: dramatist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 7, 1891 - January 28, 1960

Topics

FunnyLiveLosingPeopleNothing

I have a European frame of mind and Europe is my home.

Andrea Bocelli

HomeMindFrameEuropeEuropean

In England the judges should have independence to protect the people against the crown. Here the judges should not be independent of the people, but be appointed for not more than seven years. The people would always re-elect the good judges.

Andrew Jackson

GoodPeopleIndependenceCrownMore

If R. Akiva was perhaps overly generous in judging his generation, it can perhaps be ascribed to the belief, based on his own experience, that everyone is capable of a dramatic life change.

Meir Soloveichik

LifeChangeExperienceGeneration

I have spent many hours on the beach collecting sea glass, and I almost always wonder, as I bend to pick up chunk of bottle green or a shard of meringue white, what the history of the glass was. Who used it? Was it a medicine bottle? A bit of a ship's lantern? Is that bubbled piece of glass with the charred bits inside it from a fire?

Anita Shreve

SeaHistoryBeachFireGreenShip

When you read about the lives of other people, people of different circumstances or similar circumstances, you are part of their lives for that moment. You inhabit their lives, and you feel what they're feeling, and that is compassion. If we see that reading does allow us that, we see how absolutely essential reading is.

Amy Tan

MomentCompassionPeopleReadingYou

To achieve the impossible; it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.

Tom Robbins

ImpossibleThoughtAchieveMust

I feel less energetic; I get pains. My quality of life has deteriorated, and it takes me longer to recover from any form of physical activity.

Ronaldo

LifeQualityMeFeelQuality Of Life

You don't know how long you can play this game, so you keep playing it until they tell you to stop.

Miguel Cabrera

GameLongYouStopPlayKnow

I had never really seen 'Agent Carter' before I got the part.

Lotte Verbeek

NeverSeenGotBeforePartAgent

We shouldn't be intimidated by someone else's idea of perfection if it will prevent us from taking steps we actively want to take.

Jonathan Safran Foer

PerfectionSomeoneWantWillSteps

Mr. Rickey, I'll put more people in the park than anybody since Babe Ruth.

Dizzy Dean

PeopleMoreParkBabe RuthThanPut

Highest of heights, I climb this mountain and feel one with the rock and grit and solitude echoing back at me.

Bradley Chicho

MountainMeSolitudeClimbGrit

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