Ruth Pitter Quotes

The lily in splendor, the vine in her grace, The fox in the forest, all had their desire, As then I had mine, in the place that was happy and poor.

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• To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Man
  • Poor
  • Race

• By nature, men desire the beautiful.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Men
  • Nature
  • Beautiful

• If God should desire to raise us to the position of one who is an intimate and shares his secrets, we ought to accept this gladly.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • God
  • Desire
  • Accept

• We are on red alert when it comes to how we are perceiving ourselves as a species. There's no desire to be an adult.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Desire
  • Red
  • Alert

• Liberals have to get more comfortable with dealing with the poor as they actually are. I admire their refusal to look down on the least among us, but at some level, that can become an excuse to never really look at the problem at all.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • Problem
  • Poor
  • Down

• I'm concerned about - the oppression of the poor.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Poor
  • Concerned
  • Oppression

• Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • Man
  • Desire
  • Creation

• I was driven completely by a desire to understand how cells worked.

  

  Randy Schekman
  • Desire
  • Understand
  • Driven

• Maybe a thing that you do not like is really in your interest. It is possible that a thing that you may desire may be against your interest.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • May
  • Desire
  • Possible

• Never underestimate people. They do desire the cut of truth.

  

  Natalie Goldberg
  • People
  • Truth
  • Desire

• I like to make music because it's fun to do and it makes me feel good, but I have no desire to be a huge pop singer or anything like that. I just like to make it.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Good
  • Music
  • Fun

• I never discuss a novel while I'm writing it, for fear that talking about it will diminish my desire to write it.

  

  Dean Koontz
  • Writing
  • Fear
  • Desire

• I like having the freedom to dress as I desire.

  

  Alber Elbaz
  • Freedom
  • Desire

• 'A Streetcar Named Desire' is one of the best, if not the best, modern American plays. It deals with family dynamics, mental health, PTSD, war, and love. It's hard to beat.

  

  Ben Foster
  • Family
  • American
  • War

• The accordion came from just having a desire to play music. Somehow, I have slowly taught myself.

  

  Mary Steenburgen
  • Music
  • Desire

• My desire to contribute to the spaceflight team as we move forward in our exploration of space has only increased over the years.

  

  Peggy Whitson
  • Team
  • Desire
  • Space

• So whatever it is you want, need or desire or just like to have, you better try to get it now, 'cause this is the only time there is.

  

  Delloreese Patricia Early
  • Time
  • Desire

• I work with the options I have in front of me and my reasons for choosing a job can vary enormously depending on the circumstances. Sometimes I take a job because it's a group of people I'm dying to work with, and sometimes it can be a desire to shake things up a bit and not to take myself too seriously.

  

  Colin Firth
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win.

  

  Denis Waitley
  • Energy
  • Desire

• There is here, what is not in the old country. In spite of hard, unfamiliar things, there is here - hope. In the old country, a man can be no more than his father, providing he works hard. If his father was a carpenter, he may be a carpenter. He many not be a teacher or a priest. He may rise - but only to his father's state. In the old country, a man is given to the past. Here he belongs to the future. In this land, he may be what he will, if he has the good heart and the way of working honestly at the right things.

  

  Betty Smith
  • Good
  • Men
  • Country

• We increase whatever we praise. The whole creation responds to praise, and is glad.

  

  Charles Fillmore

• 'There's a queer performance going on in the other world,' he said. 'It's unbelievable. I never dreamed of such a thing. I - I don't quite know how to put it, and I don't know how to explain it, but - but I am becoming aware that there are other beings - other minds - moving in Space besides mine.'

  

  John Buchan
  • World
  • Space
  • Moving

• The lily in splendor, the vine in her grace, The fox in the forest, all had their desire, As then I had mine, in the place that was happy and poor.

  

  Ruth Pitter
  • Desire
  • Poor
  • Forests