Dorothy Canfield Fisher Quotes
A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
Some people think that doctors and nurses can put scrambled eggs back into the shell.
The actions of a human being, even of fifteen months of age, may not be without significance to a sympathetic eye.
Freedom is not worth fighting for if it means no more than license for everyone to get as much as he can for himself.
What a fearfully distracting, perplexing and heart-searching business it is to live.
One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.
Vermont is the only place in America where I ever hear thrift spoken of with respect.
What's the use of inventing a better system as long as there just aren't enough folks with sense to go around?
A mom isn't an individual to lean on, but a person to generate leaning needless.
perhaps all this modern ferment of what's known as 'social conscience' or 'civic responsibility' isn't a result of the sense of duty, but of the old, old craving for beauty.
Taking somebody's sacrifices is like taking counterfeit money. You're only the poorer.
There is no human relationship more intimate than that of nurse and patient, one in which the essentials of character are more rawly revealed.
the encounter with death is the great turning-point in the lives of those who live on.
Almost anything is enough to keep alive someone who wishes nothing for himself but time to write music.
You think religion is what's inside a little building filled with pretty lights from stained glass windows. But it's not. It's wings! Wings!
Life takes hold of us with strong hands and makes us greater than we thought.
there's no such thing as luck. Nothing ever just happens to anybody. ... nothing can really happen to a person till he lets it happen.
On New Year's Day every calendar, large and small, has the same number of dates. But we soon learn that the years are of very different lengths.
History is worth reading when it tells us truly what the attitude toward life was in the past.
What better can any of us do than to reach for our own stars ... and know which they are?
Father sticks to it that anything that promises to pay too much can't help being risky.
Professional psychologists seem to think that they are the only people who make sense out of human actions. The rest of us know that everybody tries to do just this. What else is gossip?
the most elementary experience of life proves that the effects of compulsion last exactly as long as the physical or moral club can be applied.
don't let anything make you believe that there are not as many decent men in the world as women, and they're just as decent. Life isn't worth living unless you know that - and it's true.
A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
The minute your group gets so big you don't know anybody in it and they don't know you, there's hell to pay.