Sarah Orne Jewett
Sarah Orne Jewett
Sarah Orne Jewettwas an American novelist, short story writer and poet, best known for her local color works set along or near the southern seacoast of Maine. Jewett is recognized as an important practitioner of American literary regionalism...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth3 September 1849
CountryUnited States of America
Sarah Orne Jewett quotes about
sky knowing looks
Look bravely up into the sky, And be content with knowing That God wished for a buttercup Just here, where you are growing.
use wonder splendid
It is a splendid thing to have the use of any gift of God. It isn't for us to choose again, or wonder and dispute, but just work in our own places, and leave the rest to God.
friendship old-friends making-friends
Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of.
grief silence world
It is not often given in a noisy world to come to the places of great grief and silence.
peace winter quiet
Do not hurry too fast in these early winter days, - a quiet hour is worth more to you than anything you can do in it.
travel said
Who was it said that you never get to a place until a day after you come, nor leave it until a day after you go?
interesting feelings satisfaction
Satisfaction, even after one has dined well, is not so interesting and eager a feeling as hunger.
past roots conversation
Conversation's got to have some root in the past, or else you've got to explain every remark you make, an' it wears a person out.
sea news conversation
my friends plunged into a borderless sea of reminiscences and personal news.
patience mistake men
There was a patient look on the old man's face, as if the world were a great mistake and he had nobody with whom to speak his own language or find companionship.
nice loneliness home
Such a nice day - out all day up in the Carter Notch direction, trout-fishing, with the long drive there and the long drive home again in time for supper. It was a lovely brook and I caught seven good trout and one small one - which eight trout-persons you should have for your breakfast if only you were near enough. It was not alone the fishing, but the delightful loneliness and being out of doors.
happiness long return
Life was resumed, and anxious living blew away as if it had not been. I could not breathe deep enough or long enough. It was a return to happiness.
healing thinking sick
There's some herb that's good for everybody, except for them that thinks they're sick when they ain't.
love-is blind only-love
Love isn't blind; it's only love that sees!