Celia Thaxter (Celia Laighton Thaxter) Quotes

It is curious that the leaf should so love the light and the root so hate it.

Celia Thaxter

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• Perspective
• Curious
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• At first blush, it seems odd that loser lit books are rejected initially, then go on to be fiercely loved by legions of readers. This apparent contradiction might be due to the fact that if they didn't screw up their lives, most losers would be the kind of power-elite, Type A go-getters whom readers love to hate.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Up
  • Love
  • Power

• There was always a love-hate relationship with New York in the rest of the country, but I made them feel more love than hate.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Country
  • Hate
  • Relationship

• I hate the way chorus boxes sound.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • Way
  • Hate
  • Sound

• I'm just glad my gold medal's at home, because I'd hate to try to win another.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Home
  • Hate
  • Win

• I don't really mind not being a part of a film - because if there is no part for me, I will never force myself upon a film. I feel like it's just a distraction. If it is not organically incorporated into the story, it just feels like a stupid appearance, like a sort of wink. I hate that.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Mind
  • Hate
  • Myself

• If I don't write, I hate myself. Simple as that. My life is out of balance.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Life
  • Hate
  • Simple

• I just hate meetings. Though it's true that once you've made a lot of money, people around you might be full of ideas about ways to make lots more money and might be disappointed that you don't want to seize every opportunity to do so.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • People
  • Money
  • True

• I hate political correctness.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Political
  • Hate
  • Correctness

• 'Orientalism' has successfully built my critical awareness to question and see the big picture of knowledge, perspective or idea from a Western point of view and always see things from different perspective.

  

  Okky Madasari
  • Different
  • Knowledge
  • Question

• I hate writing. I almost never write. I write against deadlines. And when I'm teaching, I'm focused on that.

  

  Edmund White
  • Writing
  • Hate
  • Never

• Respect for the dignity of the human person is the foundational principle of any just society. From a Catholic perspective, it also forms the foundation of all of our Church's social teachings.

  

  Salvatore J. Cordileone
  • Society
  • Respect
  • Church

• There is not an issue that a woman cannot bring a perspective to.

  

  Eddie Bernice Johnson
  • Woman
  • Perspective
  • Bring

• They say that the commons of England would first destroy the king's friends and afterward himself, and then bring the Duke of York to be king so that by their false means and lies they may make him to hate and destroy his friends, and cherish his false traitors.

  

  Jack Cade
  • May
  • Friends
  • Hate

• What is there to say? They are my friends. I would do it again, over and over - for I hate cruelty and intolerance.

  

  Oskar Schindler
  • Friends
  • Hate

• It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars.

  

  Arthur C. Clarke
  • Men
  • Long
  • True

• I hate the word lesbian; it tells you nothing; its only purpose is to inflame.

  

  Jeanette Winterson
  • Hate
  • Purpose
  • Lesbian

• I hate music, especially when it's played.

  

  Jimmy Durante
  • Music
  • Hate

• I hate hateful people.

  

  CeeLo Green
  • People
  • Hate

• The point isn't to live without any regrets. The point is to not hate ourselves for having them.

  

  Kathryn Schulz
  • Live
  • Hate

• Danger arouses interest. Where death is involved, the vilest criminal invariably stirs a little compassion.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Death
  • Compassion
  • Danger

• Whatever God's reasons for such diversity, creativity, and sophistication in the universe, on earth, and in our own bodies, the point of it all is His glory. God's art speaks of Himself, reflecting who He is and what He is like.

  

  Francis Chan
  • Art
  • Earth
  • Reason

• I can't remember in 1980 who I voted for. I wish I could tell you.

  

  Jeff Greene
  • Remember
  • Wish

• Grover Washington was my main influence, and when I went to college, I started listening to more of the jazz masters like Sonny Rollins, Cannonball Adderley, and John Coltrane.

  

  Kenneth Bruce Gorelick
  • College
  • Listening

• It is curious that the leaf should so love the light and the root so hate it.

  

  Celia Thaxter
  • Hate
  • Perspective
  • Curious