💬 Quotes

"Those who read my little books know well that the partiality of my inspiration (or perhaps only my impulse) has been directed towards the sea, and the sea-life."

"A work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line."

"The way of righteousness, my masters, is to toil all day and to sleep all night."

"The ethical value of a life is in its impulses, and not in the physical outcome of its activities."

"The fascination of the London streets is as strong as the fascination of the sea."

"Fiction is nearer to truth than history. It allows you to grasp the very spirit of an epoch."

"Every nurse should be careful to wash her hands very frequently during the day. If her face, too, so much the better."

"The very first canon of nursing, the first and the last thing upon which a nurse's attention must be fixed, the first essential to the patient, without which all the rest you can do for him is as nothing, is this: To keep the air he breathes as pure as the external air, without chilling him."

"Remember that root word of 'nursing,' namely, nourishing. To nurse is to feed, to cherish, to sustain, to protect, to comfort, to console."

"Unnecessary noise, then, is the most cruel absence of care which can be inflicted either on sick or well."

"Volumes are written on the effect of the mind upon the body. Much of the how of that effect may be known, but I should rather give your attention to the what for."

"Apprehension, uncertainty, suspense, want of punctuality, the fear of what may be... these are the burdens which press heavily upon the patient."

"It was about our being here, with each other, and being part of something larger. For just a moment, I believed that somewhere on this earth, the mistakes of the past could be forgiven, the grief swallowed up, and a place made where we could all finally rest."

"The emotions between the races could never bepure; even love was complicated by the knowledge of history, by doubt, by the subtle-and not so subtle-expectations of master and slave."

"To avoid the overwhelming grief of absence, my grandfather had simply erased my father from his mind, pretending he had never existed."

"I discovered that it wasn't spiritual or ideological conviction that made me a community organizer. It was the practical need to connect with people, to feel grounded in a place and a purpose."

"Identity wasn't something you could just look up in a book; it was a matter of choices, of history, of the stories we tell ourselves about who we are."

"We are a people of the diaspora, wandering through strangers' lands, always searching for the home we left behind, or perhaps never knew."

"Government is an institution which prevents injustice other than such as it commits itself."

"Group feeling is natural in human beings. It leads to mutual affection and favorable treatment, and to the support of one another against those who are not of the group."