Sarah Orne Jewett Quotes

Your patience may have long to wait,Whether in little things or great,But all good luck, you soon will learn,Must come to those who nobly earn.Who hunts the hay-field overWill find the four-leaved clover.

Sarah Orne Jewett

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• When you are dining with a demon, you got to have a long spoon.

  

  Navjot Singh Sidhu
  • Long
  • You
  • Demon

• If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Long
  • Humor
  • Suicide

• I had to let my ego go a long time ago.

  

  Sally Field
  • Time
  • Long
  • Ego

• I have a hard time waiting for things to happen.

  

  Zoe Lister-Jones
  • Time
  • Waiting
  • Happen

• Dan Henderson has been a fighter for a long time, and he's been a champion in many different organizations.

  

  Fedor Emelianenko
  • Time
  • Different
  • Long

• In fiction, it's a big challenge to keep the reader in one place for so long.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • Long
  • Challenge
  • Place

• Bruce Sterling is one terrific writer and he's relatively new, but I don't know how long he's been doing it; he probably doesn't need the publicity anymore!

  

  Larry Niven
  • Long
  • Know
  • Doing

• When I was eight years old, I wrote a paragraph-long short story about a goat on my mother's hundred-pound, black-and-white-screen laptop. The story came about largely because I liked the way the word 'goat' looked on the page, but I decided then and there that I wanted to be a writer. That desire never changed.

  

  Tea Obreht
  • Long
  • Mother
  • Black

• As long as there's land available, single-family homes will be built, and Colorado residents will always go for a single-family over a condo.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Long
  • Family
  • Single

• When I lived in London, I worked three jobs and had such long work days.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • Work
  • Long
  • London

• The best part about being married is feeling centered. Nothing else matters so much as long as you can come home and be with your family.

  

  Patrick Dempsey
  • Long
  • Family
  • Home

• When people ask for time, it's always for time to say no. Yes has one more letter in it, but it doesn't take half as long to say.

  

  Edith Wharton
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• With epidemics, people have been standing on the shore, waiting for the gusher to hit the ocean. But to prevent epidemics, you have to look at the various little sources that feed into the river.

  

  Nathan Wolfe
  • People
  • Waiting
  • Ocean

• Mankind progresses not smoothly, as by a sliding carpet ascent, but by rugged steps broken by gaps. He halts long on one stage before taking the next. Often he remains stationary, unable to form resolution to step forward - sometimes even has turned round and retrograded.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Long
  • Sometimes
  • Broken

• For too long, we've attached some mythic notion to government solutions, and yet, 40 years after we began the War on Poverty, poverty still abounds.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Long
  • War
  • Government

• Athletic skills are acquired over a long period of time and after countless hours of practice.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Time
  • Long
  • Practice

• You go into each game looking to win. We're not looking at wins or losses because it proves something as a team. We go into every game trying to get better. As long as you compete, we're gonna play our hearts out; we're improving every day.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Long
  • Trying
  • Game

• I'm thought of as a celebrity. Everything I've ever done... has been for children. As long as I was working constantly, that was fine, because, although I don't have any children, I do relate better to them than adults.

  

  Jack Wild
  • Long
  • Children
  • Done

• A lot of people think that success is luck and being in the right place at the right time. But I think if you’re willing to work harder than anybody else, you can create an awful lot of your own luck.

  

  Nolan Bushnell
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• For some players, luck itself is an art

  

  Paul Newman
  • Art
  • Player
  • Luck

• Americans live with the certain knowledge that the source of their greatness has not yet been released.

  

  Ralph Steadman
  • Live
  • Knowledge
  • Greatness

• It's a real buzz, even in front of 20 people, to make a complete fool of yourself. But people seemed to like it. And the thing is, if people started throwing tomatoes at me, I wouldn't have gone on with it.

  

  Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
  • People
  • Real
  • Fool

• It became my solace. Because it's the only thing structured in my life right now. Training is sort of a therapy session, I guess.

  

  Daisy Ridley
  • Life
  • Training
  • My Life

• Your patience may have long to wait,Whether in little things or great,But all good luck, you soon will learn,Must come to those who nobly earn.Who hunts the hay-field overWill find the four-leaved clover.

  

  Sarah Orne Jewett
  • Long
  • Waiting
  • Luck