Linton Quotes:

John Podesta said Hillary Linton has terrible instincts. Bernie Sanders said she has bad judgment. I agree with both.

- Donald Trump

topic: Judgment, Instinct, Linton

If he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn't love as much in eighty years as I could in a day.

- Emily Bronte

topic: Love, Years, Classic, Linton, Trough

Once you have a disease like cancer, you look at life a bit differently. Some things that were important no longer seem as important as they were.

- Linton Kwesi Johnson

topic: Cancer, Important, Looks, Linton

I have never, ever sought validation from the arbiters of British poetic taste,

- Linton Kwesi Johnson

topic: Validation, Taste, Poetic, Linton

The last thing a fish would ever notice would be water.

- Ralph Linton

topic: Water, Lasts, Would Be, Anthropology, Linton

The more I read my poems, the more I find out about them. I still read them with the same passion I felt when I wrote them as a young man.

- Linton Kwesi Johnson

topic: Passion, Men, Young, Linton

Back in those early days when I began my apprenticeship as a poet, I also tried to voice our anger, spirit of defiance and resistance in a Jamaican poetic idiom.

- Linton Kwesi Johnson

source: "Trust between the police and the black community is still broken" by Linton Kwesi Johnson, www.theguardian.com.

topic: Voice, Resistance, Spirit, Linton, Jamaicans

I am often asked why I started to write poetry. The answer is that my motivation sprang from a visceral need to creatively articulate the experiences of the black youth of my generation, coming of age in a racist society.

- Linton Kwesi Johnson

source: "Trust between the police and the black community is still broken" by Linton Kwesi Johnson, www.theguardian.com. March 28, 2012.

topic: Motivation, Writing, Black, My Generation, Black Youth

I wrote two poems about the 81 uprisings: Di Great Insohreckshan and Mekin Histri. I wrote those two poems from the perspective of those who had taken part in the Brixton riots. The tone of the poem is celebratory because I wanted to capture the mood of exhilaration felt by black people at the time.

- Linton Kwesi Johnson

source: "Trust between the police and the black community is still broken" by Linton Kwesi Johnson, www.theguardian.com. March 28, 2012.

topic: Taken, Uprising, Two, Linton

Cathy, this lamb of yours threatens like a bull!' he said. 'It is in danger of splitting its skull against my knuckles. By God! Mr. Linton, I'm mortally sorry that you are not worth knocking down!

- Emily Bronte

source: Emily Bronte (1858). “Wuthering Heights”, p.101

topic: Sorry, Skulls, Bulls, Linton, Cathy

The intense horror of nightmare came over me: I tried to draw back my arm, but the hand clung to it, and a most melancholy voice sobbed, 'Let me in - let me in!' 'Who are you?' I asked, struggling, meanwhile, to disengage myself. 'Catherine Linton,' it replied, shiveringly (why did I think of LINTON? I had read EARNSHAW twenty times for Linton) - 'I'm come home: I'd lost my way on the moor!' As it spoke, I discerned, obscurely, a child's face looking through the window.

- Emily Bronte

source: Emily Bronte (2014). “Wuthering Heights”, p.31, Race Point Publishing

topic: Children, Struggle, Home, Linton, Moors

Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.

- Emily Bronte

source: Wuthering Heights ch. 9 (1847)

topic: Love, Anniversary, Romantic, Make Me Feel Special, Marriage And Love Inspirational

My love for Linton is like the foliage in the woods. Time will changeit,I'mwellaware, aswinterchangesthetrees. My Love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneatha source of little visible delight but necessary. Nelly, I am Heathcliff.

- Emily Bronte

topic: Time, Winter, Rocks, Linton, Foliage

Yet I was a fool to fancy for a moment that she valued Edgar Linton's attachment more than mine -- If he love with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn't love as much in eighty years, as I could in a day. And Catherine has a heart as deep as I have; the sea could be as readily contained in that horse-trough, as her whole affection be monopolized by him -- Tush! He is scarcely a degree dearer to her than her dog, or her horse -- It is not in him to be loved like me, how can she love in him what he has not?

- Emily Bronte

source: Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.473, Penguin

topic: Dog, Horse, Heart, Linton, Trough

I've no more business to marry Edgar Linton than I have to be in heaven and if the wicked man in there had not brought Heathcliff so low I shouldn't have thought of it. It would degrade me to marry Heathcliff now so he shall never know how I love him and that not because he's handsome Nelly but because he's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of his and mine are the same and Linton's is as different as a moonbeam from lightning or frost from fire.

- Emily Bronte

source: Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.425, Penguin

topic: I Love Him, Men, Fire, Marrying Him, Linton

I have not broken your heart - you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine.

- Charlotte Bronte

topic: Break Up, Heartbroken, Heart, Break Your Heart, Linton

I got the sexton, who was digging Linton's grave, to remove the earth off her coffin lid, and I opened it. I thought, once, I would have stayed there, when I saw her face again - it is hers yet - he had hard work to stir me; but he said it would change, if the air blew on it.

- Emily Bronte

source: Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.571, Penguin

topic: Hard Work, Air, Digging, Linton, Heathcliff

You loved me-then what right had you to leave me? What right-answer me-for the poor fancy you felt for Linton? Because misery and degradation, and death, and nothing that God or Satan could inflict would have parted us, you, of your own will, did it. I have not broken your heart- you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine." ~Heathcliff

- Emily Bronte

topic: Heartbreak, Broken, Degradation, Break Your Heart, Linton

I didn't want him to become gray and multi-dimensional and complicated like everyone else. Was every Heathcliff a Linton in disguise?

- Margaret Atwood

source: Margaret Atwood (2012). “Lady Oracle”, p.288, Simon and Schuster

topic: Want, Complicated, Heathcliff, Linton, Want Him