Jean Toomer Quotes: top 43 famous quotes about Jean Toomer

Jean Toomer Quotes & Sayings

Happy to read and share the best inspirational Jean Toomer quotes, sayings and quotations on Wise Famous Quotes.

But words is like th spots on dice: no matter how y fumbles em,
there's times when they jes wont
come. — Jean Toomer

In a sick world, it is the first duty of the artist to get well. — Jean Toomer

Dripping rain like golden honey-
And the sweet earth flying from the thunder — Jean Toomer

These conquerors of the world are slaves to their passions, and someday their passions will bring them down. — Francine Rivers

The historical orthodox Christian faith is extremely wide and diverse. — Rob Bell

You are the most sleepiest man I ever seed. — Jean Toomer

Thunder blossoms gorgeously above our heads,
Great, hollow, bell-like flowers — Jean Toomer

Star, pillows don't attack dogs," Sam said.
"Or anything else," Turtle added. — Jennifer Priester

I'll never forget how the depression and loneliness felt good and bad at the same time. Still does. — Henry Rollins

People mistake their limitations for high standards. — Jean Toomer

You see a boxer with a beautiful nose and you got a fighter without heart. — Peter Rabe

Call them from their houses, and teach them to dream. — Jean Toomer

Whats beauty anyway but ugliness if it hurts you? — Jean Toomer

I am not less poet; I am more conscious of all that I am, am not, and might become. — Jean Toomer

We learn the rope of life by untying its knots. — Jean Toomer

Thank everyone who calls out your faults, your anger, your impatience, your egotism; do this consciously, voluntarily. — Jean Toomer

Men are apt to idolize or fear that which they cannot understand, especially if it be a woman. — Jean Toomer

Everything pure is eventually tarnished, people are ruined, and memory is, by definition, incomplete. — Marie Chow

Most novices picture themselves as masters - and are content with the picture. This is why there are so few masters. — Jean Toomer

It's nearly impossible for a criminal to come from a good mother. — James Cook

Night winds in Georgia are vagrant poets, whispering. — Jean Toomer

I was at the foot of my class. — Thomas A. Edison

It takes a well-spent lifetime, and perhaps more, to crystalize in us that for which we exist. — Jean Toomer

Men try to run life according to their wishes; life runs itself according to necessity. — Jean Toomer

All civilized wo/men are prostitutes: Some sell what's between their legs; the rest sell what's between their ears. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

We never know we are beings till we love. And then it is we know the powers and potentialities of human existence. — Jean Toomer

One may receive the information but miss the teaching. — Jean Toomer

The realization of ignorance is the first act of knowing. — Jean Toomer

Acceptance of prevailing standards often means we have no standards of our own. — Jean Toomer

Fear is a noose that binds until it strangles. — Jean Toomer

To understand a new idea, break an old habit. — Jean Toomer

O land and soil, red soil and sweet-gum tree,
So scant of grass, so profligate of pines — Jean Toomer

We start with gifts. Merit comes from what we make of them. — Jean Toomer

We do not posses imagination enough to sense what we are missing. — Jean Toomer

No eyes that have seen beauty ever lose their sight. — Jean Toomer

The most difficult challenge that Governments have faced since the dinosaurs roamed the earth. — David Chaytor

Ronald Reagan was an excellent leader of our nation during challenging times at home and abroad. — Gerald R. Ford

I'm a big Clive Owen fan. — Kevin Connolly

The third time is not always the charm. — Carolyn Brown

Whatever I believed, I did; I did with my whole heart and mind as far as possible to do so ... — Jean Toomer

Some genius of the South
With blood-hot eyes and cane-lipped scented mouth,
Surprised in making folk-songs from soul sounds. — Jean Toomer

I have to live for me. I have to do what I need to do for me, and I have stopped concerning myself with what people say. — Halle Berry

If you look at the major industries of the future, IT and mobile are way up there. — Romesh Wadhwani