Willa Cather Quotes About Children

Quotes about: Children

• In New Mexico, he always awoke a young man, not until he arose and began to shave did he realize that he was growing older. His first consciousness was a sense of the light dry wind blowing in through the windows, with the fragrance of hot sun and sage-brush and sweet clover; a wind that made one's body feel light and one's heart cry 'To-day, to-day,' like a child's.

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  Love, Sweet, Children

  Willa Cather (2008). “Death Comes for the Archbishop”, p.293, ReadHowYouWant.com

• A child's attitude toward everything is an artist's attitude.

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  Art, Children, Attitude

  Willa Cather (2012). “The Song of the Lark”, p.294, Courier Corporation

• Old people, who have felt blows and toil and known the world's hard hand, need, even more than children do, a woman's tenderness.

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  Children, Blow, Hands

  Willa Cather (2010). “Vintage Cather”, p.174, Vintage

• One realizes that human relationships are the tragic necessity of human life; that they can never be wholly satisfactory, that every ego is half the time greedily seeking them, and half the time pulling away from them. In those simple relationships of loving husband and wife, affectionate sisters, children and grandmother, there are innumerable shades of sweetness and anguish which make up the pattern of our lives day by day, though they are not down in the list of subjects from which the conventional novelist works.

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  Children, Husband, Grandmother

  Willa Cather (1988). “Not Under Forty”, p.136, U of Nebraska Press

• There is often a good deal of the child left in people who have had to grow up too soon.

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  Children, Growing Up, People

  Willa Cather (2015). “O Pioneers”, p.10, Xist Publishing

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