Mary Webb Quotes


"The past is only the present become invisible and mute; and because it is invisible and mute, its memorized glances and its murmurs are infinitely precious. We are tomorrow's past."
- Mary Webb
(Related: Past, Present, Tomorrow)

"Nature's music is never over; her silences are pauses, not conclusions."
- Mary Webb
(Related: Music, Nature)

"If you stop to be kind, you must swerve often from your path."
- Mary Webb
"Give me good digestion, Lord, And also something to digest; but where and how that something comes I leave to Thee, who knoweth best."
- Mary Webb
"We are tomorrow's past."
- Mary Webb
(Related: Past, Tomorrow)