Quotes About Nathaniel

For the first hundred years, as far as I could tell, all that happened in America was that various people named Nathaniel had purchased land near rivers.

If the people in Britain knew the nature and disposition of the New England people as well as we do they would not find so many friends in England as I suppose they do.

The American, who up to the present day, has evinced, in Literature, the largest brain with the largest heart, that man is Nathaniel Hawthorne.

I was an English major at Brown. I never enjoyed history classes.

murder takes presedence over watching my boyfriend strip -ID, Anita to Nathaniel

We are not going to have a zombie-versus-vampire war through the streets of Dublin, Nathaniel.

E' indispensabile che Cenerentola partecipi al ballo, ma petite.» «Nathaniel dice che non sono Cenerentola: sono il Principe Azzurro.» Sorridendo, Jean-Claude mi strinse brevemente nel suo abbraccio. «E' probabile.» Sì, mi stava lusingando, e glielo permisi

Maybe it's because I was named for him, but I've always wanted to meet Nathaniel Hawthorne. It's oversimplifying, but all Hawthorne's short stories and novels are, in one way or another, about guilt. Something profoundly disturbing must have happened to him at an early age. I'd like to know what that was.

As a former English major, I have always been fascinated by the connections between literature and history.

In April 2013, Nathaniel Popper of 'The New York Times' reported on Bitcoin in an article titled, 'Digital Money is Gaining Champions in the Real World'.

I got him back down to our camp near the lake, and we found him a doctor, a woman tending the wounded." "A doctor or a woman?" "Both," said Nathaniel. "A woman surgeon?" asked Elizabeth, confused. "The White Witch," said Runs-from-Bears. "I've heard tell of her.

The sky is an endless, evening blue and there's the smell of honeysuckle in the air. Music is burbling away gently in the background and Nathaniel's hand is resting casually on my thigh. I have never felt so content in my life.

The way of the world is to praise dead saints and persecute living ones.

This is a work of fiction, and the people in it are fictitious. The ghosts are real.

Not fear of this responsibility but surrender to the fear is a chief contributor to the subversion of self-esteem.

We are the one species that can formulate a vision of what values are worth pursuing—and then pursue the opposite.

There is no good on earth; and sin is but a name. Come, devil; for to thee is this world given.

When he is cheerful--when the sun shines into his mind--then I venture to peep in, just as far as the light reaches, but no further. It is holy ground where the shadow falls!

Unless people are more than commonly disagreeable, it is my foolish habit to contract a kindness for them.

That little baggage hath witchcraft in her.

What little bird of scarlet plumage may this be?...' 'I am Mother's child,' answered the scarlet vision, 'and my name is Pearl!

Thy acts are like mercy," said Hester, bewildered and appalled. "But thy words interpret thee as a terror!

Little Pearl, Hester's young child, fulminates with unconscious aggression in the wild tantrums that, Hawthorne says, reflect the illicit desire with which she was conceived.

I have come to see the nonsense of trying to describe fine scenery.