Mary Webb Quotes (17 Quotes)

Saddle your dreams before you ride em.

When you dwell in a house you mislike, you will look out of a window a deal more than those that are content with their dwelling.

The more anybody wants a thing, the more they do think others want it.

Saddle your dreams afore you ride 'ern.

It made me gladsome to be getting some education, it being like a big window opening.

On the highest point of the bare opposite ridge, now curtained in driving storm-cloud, towered in gigantic aloofness a mass of quartzite blackened and hardened by uncountable agesFlat, white stones lay about like tombstones with no name, no date, no word of hope, fit for the nameless, dateless dead, beasts and men, who had gone into the silence of annihilation.

We've had many other instances in history where (governments) had to re-jig expenditures to make sure that they stayed on course. That may be the scenario they're facing this spring,

We are tomorrow's past.

Nature's music is never over; her silences are pauses, not conclusions.

The divine egoism hat is genius.

Give me good digestion, Lord, And also something to digest; but where and how that something comes I leave to Thee, who knoweth best.

Friday's data clearly indicate that U.S. manufacturing may not be quite at a bottom. The weakness is led by computers and electronic equipment, but other categories are weak also.

The past is only the present become invisible and mute; and because it is invisible and mute, its memorized glances and its murmurs are infinitely precious. We are tomorrow's past.

The divine egoism that is genius.

To many women marriage is only this. It is merely a physical change impinging on their ordinary nature, leaving their mentality untouched, their self-possession intact. They are not burnt by even the red fire of physical passion - far less by the white fi

The well of Providence is deep. It's the buckets we bring to it that are small.

If you stop to be kind, you must swerve often from your path.