The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.

Quote by Zora Neale Hurston

Topics: Future Quotes, Past Quotes, The Preset Quotes

Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at the sun.' We might not...

Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at the sun.' We might not...

A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.

A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.

It costs you something to do good!

It costs you something to do good!

Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.

Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.

It's a funny thing, the less people have to live for, the less nerve they...

It's a funny thing, the less people have to live for, the less nerve they...

Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person. That...

Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person. That...

Don't you realize that the sea is the home of water? All water is off...

Don't you realize that the sea is the home of water? All water is off...

People can be slave-ships in shoes.

People can be slave-ships in shoes.

Anybody depending on somebody else's gods is depending on a fox not to eat chickens.

Anybody depending on somebody else's gods is depending on a fox not to eat chickens.

Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes...

Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes...

Love, I find, is like singing. Everyone can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it...

Love, I find, is like singing. Everyone can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it...

It is one of the blessings of this world that few people see visions and...

It is one of the blessings of this world that few people see visions and...

It was a weak spot in any nation to have a large body of disaffected...

It was a weak spot in any nation to have a large body of disaffected...

So the brother in black offers to these United States the source of courage that...

So the brother in black offers to these United States the source of courage that...

I did not just fall in love. I made a parachute jump.

I did not just fall in love. I made a parachute jump.

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it...

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it...

I regret all of my books.

I regret all of my books.

When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.

When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.

If you want that good feeling that comes from doing things for other folks then...

If you want that good feeling that comes from doing things for other folks then...

When a man keeps beating me to the draw mentally, he begins to get glamorous.

When a man keeps beating me to the draw mentally, he begins to get glamorous.