DeWitt Bodeen quotes

“I like to see a home like this, a home connected with people's thoughts and work, things they love.”
-- DeWitt Bodeen

#Family Quotes #Home Quotes #People Quotes

“I suppose any note, no matter how sour, sounds like a song if you hold onto it long enough.”
-- DeWitt Bodeen

#Song Quotes #Long Quotes #Sound Quotes

“I quite agree with you. The sun is not kind. God should use a rose amber spot.”
-- DeWitt Bodeen

#Rose Quotes #Amber Quotes #Use Quotes

“Even as fog continues to lie in the valleys, so does ancient sin cling to the low places, the depressions in the world consciousness.”
-- DeWitt Bodeen

#Lying Quotes #Fog Quotes #Doe Quotes

“What does one tell a husband? One tells him nothing.”
-- DeWitt Bodeen

Source : "Fictional character: Dr. Louis Judd". "Cat People", www.imdb.com. 1942.

#Husband Quotes #Doe Quotes

“Animals are ever so psychic. There are some people who just can't come in here. The cats particularly seem to know. You can fool everybody, but landy M deary-me, you can't fool a cat. They seem to know who's not right, if you know what I mean.”
-- DeWitt Bodeen

#Mean Quotes #Cat Quotes #Animal Quotes

“The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.”

“But there were years when, in search of what I thought was better, nobler things I denied these, my people, and my family. I forgot the songs they sung - and most of those songs are now dead; I erased their dialect from my tongue; I was ashamed of them and their ways of life. But now - yes, I love them; they are a part of my blood; they, with all their virtues and their faults, played a great part in forming my way of looking at life.”

“My family is my strength and my weakness.”

“Unless I am sure I am doing more at home to send the gospel abroad than I can do abroad, I am bound to go.”

“Baseball is about homecoming. It is a journey by theft and strength, guile and speed, out around first to the far island of second, where foes lurk in the reefs and the green sea suddenly grows deeper, then to turn sharply, skimming the shallows, making for a shore that will show a friendly face, a color, a familiar language and, at third, to proceed, no longer by paths indirect but straight, to home.”

Source : A. Bartlett Giamatti (1998). “A Great and Glorious Game: Baseball Writings of A. Bartlett Giamatti”, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill

“Dim loneliness came imperceivably into the fields and he turned back. The birds piped oddly; some wind was caressing the higher foliage, turning it all one way, the way home. Telegraph poles ahead looked like half-used pencils; the small cross on the steeple glittered with a sharp and shapely permanence.”

“And unlike the rest of you, he hasn’t yet time to ruin his career or his mind." "Then he won’t do. Send him home. Get us another lunatic." "Excuse me!" [hopping up to stand in his seat] "Elassar Targon, master of the universe, reporting for duty!" "I withdraw my objection.”

“I don't know why we play better on the road. I really don't. Chalk it up to coincidence, I guess. I don't think we care where we play, which is a good thing. But you'd like to see our home record be a little better than it is.”

“Were you already here?" he asked. "Yeah." "Didn't you just bring her home from work two hours ago?" "Yeah." Tripp chuckled and shook his head. "Did you even leave?" "No.”

“God does not so much want us to do things as to let people see what He can do.”