Julia Peterkin quotes

“I hear that in many places something has happened to Christmas; that it is changing from a time of merriment and carefree gaiety to a holiday which is filled with tedium; that many people dread the day and the obligation to give Christmas presents is a nightmare to weary, bored souls; that the children of enlightened parents no longer believe in Santa Claus; that all in all, the effort to be happy and have pleasure makes many honest hearts grow dark with despair instead of beaming with good will and cheerfulness.”
-- Julia Peterkin

Source : "A Plantation Christmas". Book by Julia Peterkin, 1934.

#Christmas Quotes #Children Quotes #Believe Quotes

“People and dogs and cows are born to be what they are. They may cover it up for a long time, but it will come out sooner or later.”
-- Julia Peterkin

Source : Julia Mood Peterkin (1927). “Black April: a novel”, Norman Berg

#Dog Quotes #Nature Quotes #Essence Quotes

“Some women don't care how their quilts look. They piece the squares together any sort of way, but she couldn't stand careless sewing. She wanted her quilts, and Joy's, made right. Quilts stay a long time after people are gone from this world, and witness about them for good or bad. She wanted people to see, when she was gone, that she'd never been a shiftless or don't-care woman.”
-- Julia Peterkin

Source : Julia Mood Peterkin (1927). “Black April: A Novel”, p.128, University of Georgia Press

#Quilts Quotes #Squares Quotes #Long Quotes

“A bed or a chair will trick you if you stay still on them long at a time. They will draw out your strength and leave you weak as water.”
-- Julia Peterkin

#Long Quotes #Water Quotes #Bed Quotes

“a windy March is lucky. Every pint of March dust brings a peck of September corn, and a pound of October cotton.”
-- Julia Peterkin

Source : Julia Mood Peterkin (1927). “Black April: A Novel”, p.259, University of Georgia Press

#Dust Quotes #Lucky Quotes #Cotton Quotes

“The pattern of a newspaperman's life is like the plot of 'Black Beauty.' Sometimes he finds a kind master who gives him a dry stall and an occasional bran mash in the form of a Christmas bonus, sometimes he falls into the hands of a mean owner who drives him in spite of spavins and expects him to live on potato peelings.”

“When you have kids, you instantly feel that you do not want to do them wrong. Those dads that go off to Florida and start a new life, I couldn't imagine that: seeing my kid once every Christmas, every three years. If I'm gone for six days it feels like too much.”

“Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.”

“Only in souls the Christ is brought to birth, And there He lives and dies.”

Source : Alfred Noyes (1920). “Collected Poems”

“Come Christmas Eve, we usually go to my mom and dad's. Everybody brings one gift and then we play that game when we all steal it from each other. Some are really cool, others are useful and some are a bit out there.”

“I'm sure most of us remember being a kid and you have all of this endless time where two weeks before Christmas feels like ten years. I used to go to bed to try and go to sleep to try and make it go faster.”

“I used to believe in forever, but forever's too good to be true”

“Baseball has the largest library of law and love and custom and ritual, and therefore, in a nation that fundamentally believes it is a nation under law, well, baseball is America's most privileged version of the level field.”

Source : Quoted in Sports Illustrated, 17 Apr. 1989

“I believe in instinct, not reason. When reason is right, nine times out of ten it is impotent, and when it prevails, nine times out of ten it is wrong.”

“I was a common man, and I will always remain a common man. No amount of stardom will ever consume my soul. Money comes, money goes. Fame comes, fame goes. I believe every human being is a celebrity in their own right.”