A Daughter of the Land Quotes

“She is the best-dressed woman in the county, and the best looking," said Mrs. Bates, "and that's all there is to her.”
― Gene Stratton-Porter, A Daughter of the Land

“We are all more interested in ourselves than in any one else in this world, until love comes; then we soon learn to a love man more than life, and when a child comes we learn another love, so clear, so high, so purifying, that we become of no moment at all, and live only for those we love." "You”
― Gene Stratton-Porter, A Daughter of the Land

“She stood looking down a long time; finally she picked up a fine specimen of each of the roses and slowly dropped them on her father's grave. "There! You may have that many," she said. "You look a little too lonely, lying here beside the others with not a single one, but if you could speak, I wonder whether you would say, 'Thank you!' or 'Take the damn weeds off me!'" CHAPTER”
― Gene Stratton-Porter, A Daughter of the Land

“They all reproduce themselves, they all make something intended for music, they all express a feeling in their hearts by the exercise we call dance, they all believe in the after life of the soul. This belief is as much a PART of any man, ever born in any location, as his hands and his feet.”
― Gene Stratton-Porter, A Daughter of the Land

“I am a wanderer in darkness myself, when it come to talking about God, but this I know, He is SOMEWHERE and He is REDEEMING love.”
― Gene Stratton-Porter, A Daughter of the Land

“the more we get HURT in this world the decenter it makes us.”
― Gene Stratton-Porter, A Daughter of the Land

“I was born a sweater, I shall just go on sweating until I die; I refuse to begin perspiring at my time of life." "You”
― Gene Stratton-Porter, A Daughter of the Land