Top 25 Quotes by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings of 60 - Page 3

I had done battle with a great fear and the victory was mine.

I had done battle with a great fear and the victory was mine.

Fear, Victory, Battle

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (2015). “Cross Creek”, p.155, Booklassic

Sift each of us through the great sieve of circumstance and you have a residue, great or small as the case may be, that is the man or the woman.

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Men, May, He Man

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (2015). “Cross Creek”, p.108, Booklassic

The best fish in the world are of course those one catches oneself.

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Food, Fishing, Cooking

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (1996). “Cross Creek Cookery”, p.79, Simon and Schuster

The individual man is transitory, but the pulse of life and of growth goes on after he is gone, buried under a wreath of magnolia leaves.

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Men, Growth, Wreaths

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (1996). “Cross Creek”, p.379, Simon and Schuster

Lives are only one with living. How dare we, in our egos, claim catastrophe in the rise and fall of the individual entity? There is only Life, and we are beads strung on its strong and endless thread.

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Strong, Fall, Oneness

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (2015). “Cross Creek”, p.218, Booklassic

to comfort any mortal against loneliness, one other is enough.

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Loneliness, Comfort, Enough

people in general are totally unable to detach the personality of a writer from the products of his thinking.

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Thinking, People, Personality

They were all too tightly bound together, men and women, creatures wild and tame, flowers, fruits and leaves, to ask that any one be spared. As long as the whole continued, the earth could go about its business.

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Flower, Men, Long