Celia Thaxter (Celia Laighton Thaxter) Quotes

Oh, I never meant, in my old age, to become subject to the thrall of a love like this; it is almost dreadful, so absorbing, so stirring down to the deeps. For the tiny creature is so old and wise and sweet, and so fascinating in his sturdy common sense and clear intelligence; and his affection for me is a wonderful, exquisite thing, the sweetest flower that has bloomed for me in all my life through.

Celia Thaxter

• Age
• Wise
• Sweet
• Flower
• Wonderful
• Common
• Affection
• Grandparent

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• Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains wholly bad.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • People
  • Good
  • Bad

• The eyes of the world are fixed on the U.S. to see if we have the political courage and moral sense to solve our debt crisis.

  

  Dan Coats
  • World
  • Political
  • Eyes

• It's an odd mix, the life of a playwright.

  

  Laura Wade
  • Life
  • Odd
  • Playwright

• I've always loved books by the Bronte sisters. I love Jane Austen, too. I'm more influenced by people like her than by pop culture.

  

  Laura Marling
  • People
  • Culture
  • Like

• I am an African and I am very proud of that.

  

  Fatou Bensouda
  • Proud
  • African

• A soul preoccupied with great ideas best performs small duties.

  

  Harriet Martineau
  • Great
  • Soul
  • Small

• I'm trying to figure out the biology of dinosaurs and what they were like as living creatures.

  

  Jack Horner
  • Trying
  • Living
  • Biology

• Basically, we used to have a rule at 'Saturday Night Live' that you're not allowed to bring up 'The Simpsons' at the rewrite table, because 'The Simpsons' has done every joke there is. Every week there would be guys going, 'The Simpsons did that.' I go, 'C'mon.' And 'South Park,' too.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Up
  • Live
  • Done

• No universal selfishness can bring social good to all. Communism - the effort to give all men what they need and to ask of each the best they can contribute - this is the only way of human life.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Life
  • Good
  • Men

• A wonderful physical tie binds the parents to the children; and - by some sad, strange irony - it does not bind us children to our parents. For if it did, if we could answer their love not with gratitude but with equal love, life would lose much of its pathos and much of its squalor, and we might be wonderfully happy.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Life
  • Children
  • Happy

• Shave a gorilla and it would be almost impossible, at twenty paces, to distinguish him from a heavyweight champion of the world. Skin a chimpanzee, and it would take an autopsy to prove he was not a theologian.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • World
  • Champion

• Innocence: I am only stepping on your face because it lies in my path.

  

  Mason Cooley
  • Path
  • Lies

• I have worked for a lot of really great leaders and mentors that I felt provided me, along with many of my peers - many of them women - opportunities.

  

  Mary Barra
  • Great
  • Women

• We have a revolutionary history to honor and uphold. Which was what Nelson Mandela did. He reminded us of that which we need to be reminded, over and over again, about our own best selves.

  

  Charlie Pierce
  • History
  • Honor

• Every few years, I think, 'Maybe now I'm finally smart enough or sophisticated enough to understand 'Ulysses.' So I pick it up and try it again. And by page 10, as always, I'm like, 'What the hell?'

  

  Elizabeth Gilbert
  • Up
  • Smart

• Nobody can shut the door in your face if you own the door.

  

  Kerby Jean-Raymond
  • Door

• You know, we have our own audience, and it's not like - they just know we're not going to do certain things.

  

  Kim Gordon Sonic Youth

• I believe that every person is born with talent.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Believe
  • Born
  • Talent

• Yoga disciplines both the mind and the souls and not just your body. It helps me in having a constant positive outlook in life. I would love my family to adopt this form of fitness as well.

  Jacqueline Fernandez
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Family

• You don't get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.

  

  Jim Rohn
  • Value

• Know something about something. Don’t just present your wonderful self to the world. Constantly amass knowledge and offer it around.

  

  Richard Holbrooke
  • World
  • Knowledge
  • Present

• The real beginning of influence comes as others sense you are being influenced by them - when they feel understood by you - that you have listened deeply and sincerely, and that you are open.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Feels
  • Influence
  • Understood

• Bear with my weakness. My old brain is troubled. Be not disturbed with my infirmity.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Age
  • Brain
  • Weakness

• Oh, I never meant, in my old age, to become subject to the thrall of a love like this; it is almost dreadful, so absorbing, so stirring down to the deeps. For the tiny creature is so old and wise and sweet, and so fascinating in his sturdy common sense and clear intelligence; and his affection for me is a wonderful, exquisite thing, the sweetest flower that has bloomed for me in all my life through.

  

  Celia Thaxter
  • Age
  • Wise
  • Sweet