Anne Morrow Lindbergh quotes - Page : 2

" The wave of the future is coming and there is no fighting it. " # The future # Freedom # Power

" There are no signposts in the sky to show a man has passed that way before. There are no channels marked. The flier breaks each second into new uncharted seas. " # Airplane and Aviation # Freedom # Power

" Grief can't be shared. Everyone carries it alone. His own burden in his own way. " # Grief # Freedom # Power

" The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach-waiting for a gift from the sea. " # Patience # Lies and Lying # Success

" By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class. " # Bosses and Employees # Mothers # Class

" Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood. " # Truth # Lies and Lying # Pleasure

" The intellectual is constantly betrayed by his vanity. Godlike he blandly assumes that he can express everything in words whereas the things one loves, lives, and dies for are not, in the last analysis completely expressible in words. " # News # Love # Vanity

" My passport photo is one of the most remarkable photographs I have ever seen --- no retouching, no shadows, no flattery --- just stark me. " # Photography # Love # Flattery

" Perhaps I am a bear, or some hibernating animal underneath, for the instinct to be half asleep all winter is so strong in me. " # Animals # Love # Age and Aging

" I believe that what woman resents is not so much giving herself in pieces as giving herself purposelessly. " # Belief # Men and Women # Women