Muriel Rukeyser Quotes

Nourish beginnings, let us nourish beginnings. Not all things are blest, but the seeds of all things are blest. The blessing is in the seed.

Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed... Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders.

I believe that I am only at a beginning, only knocking at a door, and I believe that the best is yet to come.

All things are possible until they are proved impossible - and even the impossible may only be so, as of now.

True, trust necessarily carries with it uncertainties, but we must force ourselves to think about these uncertainties as possibilities and opportunities, not as liabilities.

The future looks extremely bright indeed, with lots of possibilities ahead -- big possibilities. Like the song says, We've just begun.

I have great faith in a seed.

All things seem possible in May.

All things are possible.

All things are possible to one who believes.

Nothing is insignificant in the history of a young community, and - above all - nothing seems impossible.

Our faith in the present dies out long before our faith in the future.

I grew up in this world where everything seemed possible.

Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this world of his is emphatically the place of hope.

The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.

The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities.

In America, all things are possible.

Faith makes all things possible... love makes all things easy.

Optimism doesn't wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time.

I believe anything can happen.

We grow in time to trust the future for our answers.

When we see the face of a child, we think of the future. We think of their dreams about what they might become, and what they might accomplish.

Her face betokened all things dear and good, The light of somewhat yet to come was there Asleep, and waiting for the opening day, When childish thoughts, like flowers would drift away.

Let us cherish the hope that the day is not far distant when we will be in the midst of this next adventure.

At this early stage in our evolution, now through our infancy and into our childhood and then, with luck, our growing up, what our species needs most of all, right now, is simply a future.