Christopher Morley
Christopher Morley
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NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth5 May 1890
CountryUnited States of America
running baby gratitude
Standing by the crib of one's own baby, with that world - old pang of compassion and protectiveness toward this so little creature that has all its course to run, the heart flies back in yearning and gratitude to those who felt just so toward one's self. Then for the first time one understands the homely succession of sacrifices and pains by which life is transmitted and fostered down the stumbling generations of men.
children years childhood
The greatest poem ever known Is one all poets have outgrown: The poetry, innate, untold, Of being only four years old.
men creation-of-man done
God made man merely to hear some praise of what he'd done on those Five Days.
book winning years
The world has been printing books for 450 years, and yet gunpowder still has a wider circulation. Never mind! Printer's ink is the greater explosive: it will win.
book errors hunger
Between ourselves, there is no such thing, abstractly, as a 'good' book. A book is 'good' only when it meets some human hunger or refutes some human error.
new-york cities literature
New York, the nation's thyroid gland.
country book needs
That's what this country needs -- more books!
everlasting fascinating corners
The everlasting lure of round-the-corner, how fascinating it is.
political slumps commodity
Words are a commodity in which there is never any slump.
christian anxiety bears
The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.
students
All students can learn.
men violence faults
It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious; he learned the habit from Nature.
literature sinner
Only the sinner has the right to preach.
book library may
They go in [to the library] not because they need any certain volume but because they feel that there may be some book that needs them.