10 Quotes by Elizabeth Yates

Benj had once said, "A man must have a care to what he puts in his mind, for when he's alone on a hillside and draws it out he'll want treasures to be his company, not regrets.

He said little about his dream but he nourished it in his heart as the best place for a dream to grow.

Loveliest of any blossoming thing to her was that green stalk with its white bells. White was the most beautiful color she knew. Yet when she would say that to Amos he would remind her that the brown of the earth from which the flowers came was a good color too.

..for Africa was in a way none of them could explain linked up with heaven and they thought of the two places with the same reverence and ultimate longing.

There's a fire that burns fast the more fuel goes on it and that's shiftlessness," Violet said stoutly. "Lois is a shiftless woman and money is just so much fuel to her fire.

When something wonderful happens... it is to be cherished in the heart and in the mind. We must not be afraid of the wonderful things, nor must we let others laugh them away from us. Only thus do we learn how to hold our dreams.

Once it was his hard-earned money that had been used to buy her freedom. How could she speak against his doing something with what was his for another in need?

Benj had once said, “A man must have a care to what he puts in his mind, for when he’s alone on a hillside and draws it out he’ll want treasures to be his company, not regrets.

What right had she to oppose him? Yet it was he who had given her freedom. The word was meaningless unless in its light each one lived up to his highest and his best.