Grace King Quotes:

The past is our only real possession in life. It is the one piece of property of which time cannot deprive us; it is our own in a way that nothing else in life is. In a word, we are our past; we do not cling to it, it clings to us.

source: - Grace King (1973). “Grace King of New Orleans: A Selection of Her Writings”, p.35, LSU Press

Topics: Real, Past, Pieces

Every life holds that which only a miracle can cure.

source: - Grace King, E. Catherine Falvey (1994). “Balcony Stories”, p.21, Rowman & Littlefield

Topics: Miracle, Wonder, Cures

We wander through old streets, and pause before the age stricken houses; and, strange to say, the magic past lights them up.

Topics: Past, New Orleans, Light

The history of one is the history of all.

source: - Grace King, E. Catherine Falvey (1994). “Balcony Stories”, p.11, Rowman & Littlefield

Topics: History

Every heart has a miracle to pray for. Every life holds that which only a miracle can cure. To prove that there have never been, that there can never be, miracles does not alter the matter. So long as there is something hoped for, - that does not come in the legitimate channel of possible events, - just so long will the miracle be prayed for.

source: - Grace King, E. Catherine Falvey (1994). “Balcony Stories”, p.21, Rowman & Littlefield

Topics: Hope, Heart, Long

Patience! Patience! Patience is the invention of dullards and sluggards. In a well-regulated world there should be no need of such a thing as patience.

source: - Grace King, E. Catherine Falvey (1994). “Balcony Stories”, p.4, Rowman & Littlefield

Topics: Patience, Needs, World

the heart and the almanac never agree about time ...

source: - Grace King, E. Catherine Falvey (1994). “Balcony Stories”, p.12, Rowman & Littlefield

Topics: Time, Heart, Agree