Willa Cather Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old Willa Cather quotes, Willa Cather sayings, and Willa Cather proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.'

Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again. Willa Cather
No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person. Willa Cather
Where there is great love there are always miracles. Willa Cather
There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm. Willa Cather
There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm. Willa Cather
There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm. Willa Cather
Paris is a hard place to leave, even when it rains incessantly and one coughs continually from the dampness. Willa Cather
The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one's own. Willa Cather
Either a building is part of a place or it is not. Once that kinship is there, time will only make it stronger. Willa Cather
No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person. Willa Cather
All the intelligence and talent in the world can't make a singer. The voice is a wild thing. It can't be bred in captivity. It is a sport, like the silver. Willa Cather
A pioneer should have imagination, should be able to enjoy the idea of things more than the things themselves Willa Cather
There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm. Willa Cather
The test of one's decency is how much of a fight one can put up after one has stopped caring, and after one has found out that one can never please the people they wanted to please. Willa Cather
Men are all right for friends, but as soon as you marry them they turn into cranky old fathers, even the wild ones. Willa Cather
Personal life becomes paler as the imaginative life becomes richer. Willa Cather
A soup like this is not the work of one man. It is the result of a constantly refined tradition. There are nearly a thousand years of history in this soup. Willa Cather
Life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose. Willa Cather
The sky was a midnight-blue, like warm, deep, blue water, and the moon seemed to lie on it like a water-lily, floating forward with an invisible current. Willa Cather
Let your fiction grow out of the land beneath your feet. Willa Cather
He would make a bouquet for a lovely lady; a bouquet gathered off the cheeks of the morning. . . these roses, only half awake, in the defencelessness of utter beauty. Willa Cather
When the eyes of the flesh are shut, the eyes of the spirit are open. Willa Cather
There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm. Willa Cather
The first time I deceived my grandparents I felt rather shabby, perhaps even the second time, but I soon ceased to think about it. Willa Cather
The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or a woman. Willa Cather
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young. Willa Cather
One realizes that human relationships are the tragic necessity of human life; that they can never be wholly satisfactory, that every ego is half the time greedily seeking them, and half the time pulling away from them. Willa Cather
Paris is a hard place to leave, even when it rains incessantly and one coughs continually from the dampness. Willa Cather
Life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose. Willa Cather
There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before. Willa Cather