Henry Whittaker Quotes

A stranger came out to White Acre one day to sell Henry a pony, for Alma to learn to ride. The pony's name was Soames, and he was the color of sugar icing, and Alma loved him immediately. A price was negotiated. The two men settled on three dollars. Alma, who was only six years old, asked, "Excuse me, sir, but does that price also include the bridle and saddle which the pony is currently wearing?"
The stranger balked at the question, but Henry roared with laughter. "She's got you there, man!" he bellowed, and for the rest of that day, he ruffled Alma's hair whenever she came nearer, saying, "What a good little auctioneer I've got as a daughter! ~ Elizabeth Gilbert

I've refused roles because they're too simplistic. ~ Henry Czerny

I believe in North, South, East, West, The seasons, life and death, geography. That which is provable, absolute and most of all, functional. I believe in things that can kill me. ~ Henry Rollins

She was a woman who, between courses, could be graceful with her elbows on the table. ~ Henry James

A man without a wife is like a house without a roof."
- Abdulazeez Henry Musa. ~ Abdulazeez Henry Musa

Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself. ~ Henry Miller

In the ultimate sense, the world itself is pregnant with failure, is the perfect manifestation of imperfection, of the consciousness of failure. In the realization of this, failure is itself eliminated. ~ Henry Miller

I believe in mess, tears, pain, self-abasement, loss of self-respect, nakedness. Not caring doesn't seem much different from not loving. ~ Tom Stoppard

I am not now, and never have been, a girlfriend of Henry Kissinger. ~ Gloria Steinem

Marriage is not just about marrying the right person and loving each other...
It's also about having a man that got your back no matter what. ~ Abdulazeez Henry Musa

He that ceaseth to be a friend never was a good one. ~ Henry George Bohn

The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin. ~ Henry Adams

Once an ill can be patiently born it is robbed of its poison if not its pain. ~ Henry Ward Beecher

I'm tempted to tell you that you think too much, but I'm not really one to talk,' Jacob said. 'Henry Miller wrote something about fear making you fearless. It's a very powerful emotion. Use it to get what you want. I mean if it's going to rule our life, it might as well rule you to freedom, right? ~ Tiffanie DeBartolo

Were there a Christian so faithful to his God as I was to her we would all be Jesus Christ today. ~ Henry Miller

Love comes unseen; we only see it go. ~ Henry Austin Dobson

Why, in the Peking Opera, are women's roles played by men? ... Because only a man knows how a woman is supposed to act. ~ David Henry Hwang

The blackest ink of fate are sure my lot, And when fate writ my name it made a blot. ~ Henry Fielding

Every discoverer of a new truth, or inventor of the method which evolves it, makes a dozen, perhaps fifty, useless combinations, experiments, or trials for one successful one. In the realm of electricity or of mechanics there is no objection to this. But when such rejected failures involve a torture of animals, sometimes fearful in its character, there is a distinct objection to it. ~ Henry Jacob Bigelow

Wisdom is wisdom only to the wise ~ James Henry Cousins

His kiss was like white lightning, a flash that spread, and spread again, and stayed. ~ Henry James

We don't trust our five senses; we rely on our critics and educators, all of whom are failures in the realm of creation. ~ Henry Miller

I'd like to rid myself of writing, to surrender, to release the venom. And hopefully at some point, I'll be a happy, well-adjusted guy and I'll have no need for all that 'art.' ~ Henry Rollins

All self-effort is but sinking sand. Christ alone is the Rock of our salvation. ~ Henry Allen Ironside

The humblest peasant is as free in the sight of God as the proudest monarch that ever swayed a sceptre. Liberty is a spirit sent from God and like its great Author is no respecter of persons. ~ Henry Highland Garnet

Pedagogy is always about power, because it cannot be separated from how subjectives are formed, desires mobilized, how some experiences are legitimized and others are not, or how some knowledge is considered acceptable while other forms are excluded from the curriculum. ~ Henry A. Giroux

Give me liberty, or give me death! While we're at it, I would also like a fourth Pirates of the Caribbean movie. ~ Patrick Henry

In a healthy individual, a broken bone that has healed properly is strongest where it was once broken. You have not lost any life, Henry told himself. You will still get your fair share of years. Yet the quality of his life changed. Once you've been struck by violence, you acquire companions that never leave you entirely: Suspicion, Fear, Anxiety, Despair, Joylessness. The natural smile is taken from you and the natural pleasures you once enjoyed lose their appeal. ~ Yann Martel

You can imagine thistle-down so light that when you run after it your running motion would drive it away from you, and that the more you tried to catch it the faster it would fly from your grasp. And it should be with every man, that, when he is chased by troubles, they, chasing, shall raise him higher and higher. ~ Henry Ward Beecher

So behave that the odor of your actions may enhance the general sweetness of the atmosphere, that when we behold or scent a flower, we may not be reminded how inconsistent your deeds are with it; for all odor is but one form of advertisement of a moral quality, and if fair actions had not been performed, the lily would not smell sweet. The foul slime stands for the sloth and vice of man, the decay of humanity; the fragrant flower that springs from it, for the purity and courage which are immortal. ~ Henry David Thoreau

to stand on the meeting of two eternities, the past and future, which is precisely the present moment; to ~ Henry David Thoreau

You seem very confident in him all of a sudden," Alice said.

"He was very gentle with that girl," he said.

That, Alice realized, carried more weight with Hatcher than the rabbit's brutal disassembly of the Walrus. And that was why she loved him. ~ Christina Henry

I need to admit up front that I don't know how to have a fling. I'm not good at playing around and then saying good-bye. I'm throwing myself at your feet because I'm hoping for a shot at forever. Henry Jenkins/Mr. Nobley ~ Shannon Hale

A Creator must exist. The Big Bang ripples and subsequent scientific findings are clearly pointing to an ex nihilo creation consistent with the first few verses of the book of Genesis. ~ Henry F. Schaefer, III

I would love to see Mr. (Henry) Ford in there, really. I don't know who started the idea that a President must be a Politician instead of a Business man. A Politician can't run any other kind of business. So there is no reason why he can run the U.S. That's the biggest single business in the World. ~ Will Rogers

Psychologically I should say that a person becomes an adult at the point when he produces more than he consumes or earns more than he spends. This may be at the age of eighteen, twenty-five, or thirty-five. Some people remain unproductive and dependent children forever and therefore intellectually and emotionally immature. ~ Henry C. Link