Louis Adamic quotes

Louis Adamic quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“My grandfather always said that living is like licking honey off a thorn.”
-- Louis Adamic

#Fathers Day Quotes #Grandfather Quotes #Honey Quotes
“There is a certain blend of courage, integrity, character and principle which has no satisfactory dictionary name but has been called different things at different times in different countries. Our American name for it is "guts."”
-- Louis Adamic

#Country Quotes #Integrity Quotes #Character Quotes
“From Mount Hollywood, Los Angeles looks rather nice, enveloped in a haze of changing colors. Actually, and in spite of all the healthful sunshine and ocean breezes, it is a bad place - full of old, dying people, who were born old of tired pioneer parents, victims of America - full of curious wild and poisonous growths, decadent religious cults and fake science, and wildcat enterprises, which, with their aim for quick profit, are doomed to collapse and drag down multitudes of people.”
-- Louis Adamic

#Religious Quotes #Nice Quotes #Ocean Quotes

“I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.”
“For thousands of years, father and son have stretched wistful hands across the canyon of time, each eager to help the other to his side, but neither quite able to desert the loyalties of his contemporaries. The relationship is always changing and hence always fragile; nothing endures except the sense of difference.”
“There will always be a few people who have the courage to love what is untamed inside us. One of those men is my father.”
“Nothing I've ever done has given me more joys and rewards than being a father to my children.”
“History is as Old as My Grandfather”
“I grew up, as many Indians do, in an archipelago of tongues. My maternal grandfather, who was a surgeon in the city of Madras, was fluent in at least four languages and used each of them daily.”
“My grandfather came over from Puerto Rico and raised his kids speaking English so that it would be easier for them to assimilate.”
“It takes a bee to get the honey out”

Source : Arthur Guiterman (1924). “A Poet's Proverbs: Being Mirthful, Sober, and Fanciful Epigrams on the Universe, with Certain Old Irish Proverbs, All in Rhymed Complets”, New York, E.P. Dutton [1924]
“Moderation, honey, in all things but love and chocolate. That's my motto.”

Source : Barbara Bretton (2001). “A Soft Place to Fall”, Berkley
“If you have no Honey in your Pot, have some in your Mouth.”

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