Howard Fast Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“I am a man of peace [so he told Mother, but it always appeared to me that he was the most belligerent man of peace I had ever encountered]”
-- Howard Fast

Source : Howard Fast (1961). “April Morning: A Novel”, Crown

#Mother Quotes #Men Quotes

“A mountain still in the distance can appear as a molehill.”
-- Howard Fast

Source : Howard Fast (2011). “April Morning”, p.18, Open Road Media

#Distance Quotes #Mountain Quotes #Stills Quotes

“Only people who suffer show the ravages of age.”
-- Howard Fast

#People Quotes #Suffering Quotes #Age Quotes

“Either you get a chance to be a kid when you are a kid, or you don't grow up.”
-- Howard Fast

Source : Howard Fast (1978). “The immigrants”, G K Hall & Co

#Growing Up Quotes #Kids Quotes #Chance Quotes

“The dignity is in the worker, not in the job.”
-- Howard Fast

Source : Howard Fast (1978). “The immigrants”, G K Hall & Co

#Jobs Quotes #Dignity Quotes #Workers Quotes

“Yiddish for gall, nerve, arrogance-whatever”
-- Howard Fast

Source : Howard Fast (1977). “The Immigrants”, Dell Publishing Company

#Arrogance Quotes #Nerves Quotes #Yiddish Quotes

“And finally, be assured that Zen asks nothing even as it promises nothing. One can be a Protestant Zen Buddhist, a Catholic Zen Buddhist or a Jewish Zen Buddhist. Zen is a quiet thing. It listens.”
-- Howard Fast

Source : Howard Fast (2011). “The Art of Zen Meditation”, p.10, Open Road Media

#Buddhist Quotes #Catholic Quotes #Promise Quotes

“Most assuredly Zen is a religion, but it is a religion without scripture, without doctrine or dogma and without sin.”
-- Howard Fast

Source : Howard Fast (2011). “The Art of Zen Meditation”, p.8, Open Road Media

#Religion Quotes #Doctrine Quotes #Scripture Quotes

“Happy bridegroom, Hesper brings All desired and timely things. All whom morning sends to roam, Hesper loves to lead them home. Home return who him behold, Child to mother, sheep to fold, Bird to nest from wandering wide: Happy bridegroom, seek your bride.”

“I wanted to live. For the father and brother who I never knew and for my mother who was cheated of a life of happiness. I wanted to live for them. And I wanted to live for me.”

“When mother is happy, family is happy. When family is happy, nation is happy.”

“Women who miscalculate are called mothers.”

“There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'”

“We may not preach a crucified Saviour without being also crucified men and women. It is not enough to wear an ornamental cross as a pretty decoration. The cross that Paul speaks about was burned into his very flesh, was branded into his being, and only the Holy Spirit can burn the true cross into our innermost life.”

“I cannot understand how any man or woman can believe in the Lord's coming and not be a missionary, or at least committed to the work of missions with every power of his being.”

Source : A. B. Simpson (1987). “Missionary Messages: For a Church that Needs to Hear”, p.23, Moody Publishers

“A devotee should be fixed in the conclusion that, the spiritual master cannot be subject to criticism and should never be considered equal to a common man.”

“Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose, But young men think it is, and we were young.”

Source : More Poems (1936) no. 36

“Therefore, since the world has still Much good, but much less good than ill, And while the sun and moon endure Luck's a chance, but trouble's sure, I'd face it as a wise man would, And train for ill and not for good.”

Source : A. E. Housman (2012). “A Shropshire Lad”, p.43, Courier Corporation