Top 39 Quotes by Lucy Larcom

About Lucy Larcom

These are some quotes by American author Lucy Larcom Poet, who lived between March 5, 1824 and April 17, 1893.

Our relatives form the natural setting of our childhood. We understand ourselves best and are best understood by others through the persons who came nearest to us in our earliest years.

Our relatives form the natural setting of our childhood. We understand ourselves best and are best understood by others through the persons who came nearest to us in our earliest years.

Lucy Larcom

If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.

If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.

Lucy Larcom

God be thanked for the thinkers of good and noble thoughts! It wakes up all the best in ourselves, to come into close contact with others greater and better in every way than we are.

God be thanked for the thinkers of good and noble thoughts! It wakes up all the best in ourselves, to come into close contact with others greater and better in every way than we are.

Lucy Larcom

When I heard that there were artists, I wished I could some time be one. If I could only make a rose bloom on paper, I thought I should be happy! Or if I could at last succeed in drawing the outline of winter-stripped boughs as I saw them against the sky, it seemed to me that I should be willing to spend years in trying.

Lucy Larcom

Whatever science and philosophy may do for mankind, the world can never outgrow its need of the simplicity that is in Christ.

Whatever science and philosophy may do for mankind, the world can never outgrow its need of the simplicity that is in Christ.

Lucy Larcom

A complete autobiography would indeed be a picture of the outer and inner universe photographed upon one little life's consciousness. For does not the whole world, seen and unseen, go to the making up of every human being?

Lucy Larcom

A man may make a misanthrope of himself, but he is never one by nature.

A man may make a misanthrope of himself, but he is never one by nature.

Lucy Larcom

I defied the machinery to make me its slave. Its incessant discords could not drown the music of my thoughts if I would let them fly high enough.

I defied the machinery to make me its slave. Its incessant discords could not drown the music of my thoughts if I would let them fly high enough.

Lucy Larcom

The curse of covetousness is that it destroys manhood by substituting money for character.

The curse of covetousness is that it destroys manhood by substituting money for character.

Lucy Larcom

A drop of water, if it could write out its own history, would explain the universe to us.

A drop of water, if it could write out its own history, would explain the universe to us.

Lucy Larcom

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