Almost every famous person at least once in their life said something that was remembered by the society, and considered meaningful, important or just funny. Those quotations can be mentioned in various situations. Often they are used in speeches or in a humorous way. In order to find some of them grub around.
Willa cather
Date: September 22, 2007
There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.
No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person.
She used to drag her mattress besider her low window and lie awake for a long while, vibrating with excitement, as a machine vibrates from speed. Life rushed in upon her through that window - or so it seemed. In reality, of course, life rushes from within, not from without. There is no work of art so big or so beautiful that is was not once all contained in some youthful body, like this one which lay on the floor in the moonlight, pulsing with ardor and anticipation.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.
Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.
I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.