Olive Schreiner Quotes

Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Olive Schreiner

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: south african
  • Birth: March 24, 1855 - December 11, 1920

Topics

LoveFlowerGodWaterColorSin

I am the fool, and must be the sufferer, if it be not of God.

Joanna Southcott

GodFoolI AmMustAm

I'll get in that habit of throwing the ball over the plate too much. You want to keep it going, get those guys back into the dugout. But it's not a good thing when you're over more than a third of the plate.

Matt Cain

GoodHabitYouBackToo MuchWant

When people ask me about color in my work, I tend to say that it came from spending a lot of time in Panama.

Amy Sherald

WorkTimePeopleMeColorSay

If money is tight, or you're on a limited budget, then consider DIY or used gifts. DIY could be something like baked goods for your friends, family, and neighbors. Plus, if you have children, it's a great activity to do with them during the holidays.

John Rampton

FamilyChildrenGreatMoneyHolidays

As someone who was once in the closet, I can tell you it is the most sad, dark, awful, depressing place to ever be.

Rory O'Malley

SadSomeoneYouDarkI CanPlace

When Europeans first came to Africa, they considered the architecture very disorganized and thus primitive. It never occurred to them that the Africans might have been using a form of mathematics that they hadn't even discovered yet.

Ron Eglash

MathematicsArchitectureAfricaNever

I now have 10-year-olds asking me about how to become successful, how to become a business owner, which is crazy - at 10 I was trying to figure out which Barbie I wanted.

Michelle Phan

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In our racist, sexist society, Christmas is the 8 hours when we stop killing each other and gratutious over eating is encouraged so that the starving and other people in the world can die!

Lloyd Kaufman

PeopleWorldSocietyEatingDie

Boston is so laced with jerseys that you can be dressed head to toe in team apparel and no one will look twice.

David Walton

TeamYouLookDressedWillBoston

I have led a pretty colorful life.

Corey Feldman

LifeColorfulPrettyLed

I would say that Times Square was the central hangout for Burroughs, Kerouac, and myself from about 1945 to 1948.

Allen Ginsberg

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There's no Peter York Foundation, and you're no one without one.

Peter York

FoundationYouWithoutPeterYork

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