"Sisters are brittle things. God was penurious with me, which makes me shrewd with Him. One is a dainty sum! One bird, one cage, one flight; one song in those far woods, as yet suspected by faith only!"

Family, Faith, God, Loss, Rarity

26

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"Sisters are brittle things. God was penurious with me, which makes me shrewd with Him. One is a dainty sum! One bird, one cage, one flight; one song in those far woods, as yet suspected by faith only!"

Exlpore more Family quotes

"Don't give up on yourself, your dreams and your family."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Family, Give, Dreams, Strength

"It is wonderful to live together as brothers and sisters."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Family, Unity, Together, Love

"Children observe everything with caution."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Family, Children, Observe, Caution, World

"Children are holy angels."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Family, Children, Holy, Angels, Blessings

"Children are sacred beings."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Family, Children, Sacred, Beings, Life

"Blessed your mum, who carried you in a womb for nine months."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Family, Bless, Mum, Womb, Life

"Children are the most fearless souls on earth."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Family, Children, Fearless, Souls, Courage

"Children can see the beatitudes in nature."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Family, Children, Beatitudes, Nature, Spirituality

"Fatherhood is sacred."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Family, Fatherhood, Sacred, Love, Life

"Family is a fortress."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Family, Fortress, Strength, Bond

Explore more quotes by Emily Dickinson

"Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath."

Love, Death, Life, Creation

"In lands I never saw, they say, Immortal Alps look down,Whose bonnets touch the firmament,Whose sandals touch the town, -Meek at whose everlasting feetA myriad daisies play.Which, sir, are you, and which am I.Upon an August day?"

Nature, Beauty, Imagination, Wonder

"Faith is a fine inventionWhen gentlemen can see,But microscopes are prudentIn an emergency."

Philosophy, Faith, Science, Knowledge, Prudence

"I wonder if it hurts to live,And if they have to try,And whether, could they choose between,They would not rather die."

Life, Pain, Choice, Truth

"To love is so startling it leaves little time for anything else."

Love, Time

"Split the Lark-and you'll find the Music, Bulb after Bulb, in Silver rolled."

Art, Music, Beauty, Expression

"Faith-is the Pierless BridgeSupporting what We seeUnto the Scene that We do not-Too slender for the eyeIt bears the Soul as boldAs it were rocked in SteelWith Arms of Steel at either side-It joins-behind the VeilTo what, could We presumeThe Bridge would cease to beTo Our far, vacillating FeetA first Necessity."

Faith, Soul, Support, Spiritual

"The sun just touched the morning; The morning, happy thing, Supposed that he had come to dwell, And life would be all spring."

Nature, Morning, Spring, Sun, Happiness

"Glee! The great storm is over!"

Joy, Happiness, Peace, Hope

"Tell all the Truth, but tell it slant/Success in Circuit lies..."

Wisdom, Truth, Poetry, Success, Expression