Willa Cather Quotes

As a single mother of four, my mother taught me that you always want to show up strong for the moments that really matter with family, friends, and community. I now recognize how her strength helped shape the person I am today and the mother that I have become.

For me, true beauty has nothing to do with wrinkles and everything to do with the fact that my maternal grandmother raised five children just after the war and remained a fighter throughout her life. True beauty is the slick of red lipstick my paternal grandmother would put on before going to church on Sunday.

You show your teeth more when you show what you're made of and your heart.

Good luck go with you, O Chief of the Wolves. And good luck and strong white teeth go with noble children that they may never forget the hungry in this world.

You are who you are. I know you. You believe that? "Yea but--" "You're Eve Dallas. You're the love of my life. My heart and Soul. You're a cop, mind and bone. You're a woman of strength and resilience. Stubborn, hardheaded, occassionally mean as a badger, and more generous that you'll admit.

I know you’ll be a good Queen, a strong, noble leader, and that’s more than these people deserve,” she said. “But don’t give too much. You need to keep some of yourself for you. And listen to your heart.

But in my heart I knew that just like the new grass, I wasn't strong enough yet to be walked on

Good wombs have borne bad sons." -- (Miranda, I:2)

There is nothing stronger than a heart which loves and is freely given.

Kobe's heart is as strong as his muscles.

You're incredibly brave. And you're going to make it through this because you have a very strong heart. A heart that is capable of loving so much about life and people in a way you never dreamt a heart could love. And you're beautiful in here. Your heart is so beautiful and someday someone is going to love that heart like it deserves to be loved.

Your hearts are mighty, your skins are whole.

What makes me feel strong? Being in love and work. I must work.

Many of us fear that we are not attractive or desirable enough to attract others. We have believed that we are "not enough." Today let's remind ourselves that we all receive our beauty, energy, and light from the same inexhaustible source. As we acknowledge this and begin to love and appreciate ourselves as we are, our channel opens and we have available to us the infinite vitality, beauty, and magnetism of the life force.

Woman, above all other educators, educates humanly. Man is the brain, but woman is the heart, of humanity.

When we are strong, we are always much greater than the things that happen to us.

Great men cultivate love and only little men cherish a spirit of hatred; assistance given to the weak makes the one who gives it strong; oppression of the unfortunate makes one weak.

Through the shake of an earthquake I will never fall. That’s how strong my love is.

Do not doubt your own basic goodness. In spite of all confusion and fear, you are born with a heart that knows what is just, loving, and beautiful.

Man, like the generous vine, supported lives; the strength he gains is from the embrace he gives.

Powerful women scare men. I think that when you're mature, you are powerful. And that's what makes you beautiful. So until we're able to see women as beautiful because they're strong, we're gonna have problems.

We believe that it takes a strong back and a soft front to face the world.

If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.

The heart is like an instrument whose strings Steal magic music from Life's mystic frets.

Guided by my heritage of a love of beauty and a respect for strength - in search of my mother's garden, I found my own.