Quotes by : Willa Cather

Sometimes," I ventured, "it doesn't occur to boys that their mother was ever young and pretty. . . I....

I only knew the schoolbooks said he "died in the wilderness, of a broken heart.""More than him has done....

Miracles... seem to me to rest not so much upon... healing power coming suddenly near us from afar but....

Some memories are realities and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.

I guess everybody thinks about old times, even the happiest people.

That is happiness: to be dissolved into something completely great.

Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family but to a solitary and an....

He is convinced that the people who might mean something to him will always misjudge him and pass him....

Constant comparisons are the stamp of the foreigner; one continually translates manners and customs of....

The world is little, people are little, human life is little. There is only one big thing — desire.....