The Bent Twig
A source page for quotes linked to Dorothy Canfield Fisher.
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“What better can any of us do than to reach for our own stars ... and know which they are?”
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Source: Vermont Tradition: The Biography of an Outlook on Life
Source: A Montessori Mother
“help that is not positively necessary is a hindrance to a growing organism.”
Source: A Montessori Mother
Source: A harvest of stories, from a half century of writing
Source: The Bent Twig
“the encounter with death is the great turning-point in the lives of those who live on.”
Source: The Bent Twig
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Source: Four-square
Source: Vermont Tradition: The Biography of an Outlook on Life
“Libraries are the vessels in which the seed corn for the future is stored.”
“What a fearfully distracting, perplexing and heart-searching business it is to live.”
“Life takes hold of us with strong hands and makes us greater than we thought.”
Source: The Bent Twig
Source: Seasoned Timber
“You can't wish a body any worse luck than to get what he wants.”
Source: Bonfire
Source: The Bent Twig
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Source: Keeping Fires Night and Day: Selected Letters of Dorothy Canfield Fisher
“I'm as fixed in my opinion as the man who thought he was a hard-boiled egg.”
Source: The Bent Twig
Source: Vermont Tradition: The Biography of an Outlook on Life
“Taking somebody's sacrifices is like taking counterfeit money. You're only the poorer.”
Source: Bonfire
“No Vermont town ever let anybody in it starve.”
Source: Four-square
Source: Vermont Tradition: The Biography of an Outlook on Life
Source: Bonfire
Source: Self-reliance: A Practical and Informal Discussion of Methods of Teaching Self-reliance, Initiative and Responsibility to Modern Children
“Father sticks to it that anything that promises to pay too much can't help being risky.”
“A mom isn't an individual to lean on, but a person to generate leaning needless.”
“A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.”
“Vermont is the only place in America where I ever hear thrift spoken of with respect.”
“History is worth reading when it tells us truly what the attitude toward life was in the past.”
Source: Vermont Tradition: The Biography of an Outlook on Life
Source: Bonfire
“Some people think that doctors and nurses can put scrambled eggs back into the shell.”