Rachel Field Quotes

• You know the public is more easily swayed by persons than by principles.

  Rachel Field

  Principles, Persons, Knows

  Rachel Field (1939). “All this and Heaven too”

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• One of the pleasantest things about book writing is that sometimes it brings one in touch with old friends.

  Rachel Field

  Book, Writing, Old Friends

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• The sight of a cage is only frightening to the bird that has once been caught.

  Rachel Field

  Sight, Bird, Experience

  Rachel Field (1938). “ALL THIS, and HEAVEN TOO”

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• Isn’t it strange some people make You feel so tired inside, Your thoughts begin to shrivel up Like leaves all brown and dried!But when you’re with some other ones It’s stranger still to find Your thought as thick as fireflies All shiny in your mind!

  Rachel Field

  Tired, Firefly, Thinking

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• There's plenty of fire in the coldest flint!

  Rachel Field

  Fire, Plenty

  Rachel Field (1939). “All this and Heaven too”

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• It's terrible when the weak are also cruel for then we are defenseless against them.

  Rachel Field

  Weakness, Weak, Terrible

  Rachel Field (1938). “ALL THIS, and HEAVEN TOO”

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• I've seen public opinion shift like the wind and put out the very fire it lighted.

  Rachel Field

  Fire, Wind, Public Opinion

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• Something told the wild geese
  It was time to go.
  Though the fields lay golden
  Something whispered, "snow."
  Leaves were green and stirring,
  Berries, luster-glossed,
  But beneath warm feathers
  Something cautioned, "frost."
  All the sagging orchards
  Steamed with amber spice
  But each wild breast stiffened
  At remembered ice.
  Something told the wild geese
  It was time to fly-
  Summer sun was on their wings,
  Winter in their cry.

  Rachel Field

  Summer, Winter, Autumn

  Rachel Field (1934). “Branches Green”

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• No hardy perennial has the enduring quality of hope. Cut it to the roots, stamp it underfoot, let frost and fire work their will, and still some valiant shoot will push, to grow again on such scanty fare as it can find. Only time and the cruel quicklime of fact can destroy that stubborn urgency.

  Rachel Field

  Hope, Cutting, Fire

  Rachel Field (1946). “And Now Tomorrow”

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• And scandal has a way of catching up with those who disregard its power.

  Rachel Field

  Scandal, Way, Catching Up

  Rachel Field (1938). “ALL THIS, and HEAVEN TOO”

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• There was no reality to pain when it left one, though while it held one fast all other realities faded.

  Rachel Field

  Pain, Reality, Left

  Rachel Field (1939). “All this and Heaven too”

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• The difference between ambition and discontent is quite a fine line and sometimes it is hard to tell which is which and which you are feeling!

  Rachel Field

  Ambition, Differences, Feelings

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• I was never one to begrudge people their memories. From a child I would listen when they spoke of the past.

  Rachel Field

  Children, Memories, Book

  Rachel Field (0101). “Time Out of Mind”, p.3, Prabhat Prakashan

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• Too much good fortune can make you smug and unaware. Happiness should be like an oasis, the greener for the desert that surrounds it.

  Rachel Field

  Happiness, Oasis, Desert

  Rachel Field (1946). “And Now Tomorrow”

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• Doorbells are like a magic game,
  Or the grab-bag at a fair --
  You never know when you hear one ring
  Who may be waiting there.

  Rachel Field

  Games, Waiting, Magic

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• When I was young they used to say people only threw stones at the tree that was loaded with fruit.

  Rachel Field

  Jealousy, People, Envy

  Rachel Field (1938). “ALL THIS, and HEAVEN TOO”

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• no matter how hard and faithfully we may try we can never compensate another for some lack in his or her life.

  Rachel Field

  Trying, May, Matter

  Rachel Field (1946). “And Now Tomorrow”

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• A little town is like a lantern. Nothing's hid from sight.

  Rachel Field

  Sight, Littles, Towns

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• I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.

  Rachel Field

  Confused, Ambition, Thinking

  Rachel Field (1938). “ALL THIS, and HEAVEN TOO”

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• ...his hoofbeats fall like rain, over and over again.

  Rachel Field

  Horse, Rain, Fall

  Rachel Field (1934). “Branches Green”

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