writer Quotes

• I ask you all so earnestly to open girl’s schools in every village and try to uplift them. If the Conditions of women are raised, then their children will, by their noble actions, glorify the name of the Country.

  - Swami Vivekananda

• This race and this country and this life produced me, he said. I shall express myself as I am.

  - James Joyce

• I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.

  - Zora Neale Hurston

• In expressing love we belong among the undeveloped countries.

  - Saul Bellow

• A foreign country can best be understood through its literature.

  - Simone de Beauvoir

• In this country we find it pays to shoot an admiral from time to time to encourage the others.

  - Voltaire

• The reason literacy is important is that literature is the operating instructions. The best manual we have. The most useful guide to the country we’re visiting, life.

  - Ursula K. Le Guin

• I thought that a man can be an enemy of other men, of the moments of other men, but not of a country: not of fireflies, words, gardens, streams of water, sunsets.

  - Jorge Luis Borges

• Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans.

  - John Lennon

• Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.

  - Winston S. Churchill