Willa Cather Quotes About Country

Quotes about: Country

• There was nothing but land; not a country at all, but the material out of which countries are made.

  Willa Cather

  Country, Land, Creeks

  Willa Cather (2012). “My Ántonia”, p.15, Courier Corporation

• Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.

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  Country, Lying, Winter

  1918 My Antonia, bk.2, ch.7.

• There seemed to be nothing to see; no fences, no creeks or trees, no hills or fields. If there was a road, I could not make it out in the faint starlight. There was nothing but land: not a country at all, but the material out of which countries are made.

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  Country, Stars, Land

  Willa Cather (2012). “My Ántonia”, p.15, Courier Corporation

• There is something frank and joyous and young in the open face of the country. It gives itself ungrudgingly to the moods of the season, holding nothing back.

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  Country, Giving, Earth

  Willa Cather (2013). “The Best of Willa Cather”, p.91, Simon and Schuster

• Yet the summer which was to change everything was coming nearer every day. When boys and girls are growing up, life can't stand still, not even in the quietest of country towns; and they have to grow up, whether they will or no. That is what their elders are always forgetting.

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  Girl, Summer, Country

  Willa Cather (2013). “The Best of Willa Cather”, p.583, Simon and Schuster

• The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or a woman.

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  Wisdom, Country, Heart

  O Pioneers! pt. 1, ch. 5 (1913)

• In a few hours one could cover that incalculable distance; from the winter country and homely neighbours, to the city where the air trembled like a tuning-fork with unimaginable possibilities.

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  Country, Distance, Winter

  Willa Cather (2011). “Lucy Gayheart”, p.20, Vintage

• Merely having seen the season change in a country gave one the sense of having been there for a long time.

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  Country, Time, Long

  Willa Cather (2013). “The Essential Willa Cather Collection”, p.894, eBookIt.com

• Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing and disheartening.

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  Country, Depressing, Absence

  Willa Cather (2013). “The Essential Willa Cather Collection”, p.947, eBookIt.com

• People always think the bread of another country is better than their own.

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  Country, Thinking, People

  Willa Cather (2013). “The Best of Willa Cather”, p.87, Simon and Schuster

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