Here I Stay Quotes

“A man must have succeeded in something to be happy, but a woman must be needed.”
― Elizabeth Coatsworth, Here I Stay

“He used to tell me when Mr. Boswell asked Dr. Johnson which was the greatest of the virtues, he answered unhesitatingly, ‘Courage,’ and when Mr. Boswell asked him why, he said, ‘Because, sir, without courage, one will have little opportunity to practice the other virtues.”
― Elizabeth Coatsworth, Here I Stay

“For recreation do something entirely useless, child," he had often said to her. "Man's interest in the unnecessary is a measure of his civilization.”
― Elizabeth Coatsworth, Here I Stay

“But people were used to saying “Deerwander” now, without thinking about the name one way or another; they might still be saying “Deerwander” when the village became a city, where children lived who had never seen a deer drinking at a rain pool in a hollow of the granite.”
― Elizabeth Coatsworth, Here I Stay