To grow up in intimate association with nature - animal and vegetable - is an irreplaceable form of wealth and culture. Miles Franklin More Quotes by Miles Franklin More Quotes From Miles Franklin I never can see why they make such a fuss and get so frightened because wimmen does a thing or two now they usedn't to. Nothing short of a earthquake can make them not men an' wimmmen, an' that's the main thing. Miles Franklin earthquakesmentwo Every now and again it would be considered wholesome for me to be more with people of my own age. Demotion to such company was a sapless exile. Their inanity was insufferable. Miles Franklin agewould-bepeople Grandpa ... was ever ready to cheer and help me, ever sure that I was a remarkable specimen. He was a dear old man who asked little from life and got less. Miles Franklin grandpacheermen ... we each have our fleeting hour. Miles Franklin fleetinghours In the career of a prodigy there invariably comes a time when it is compelled to relinquish being very clever for a child, and has to enter the business of life in competition with adults. Miles Franklin careerscleverchildren All is egotism. The only people whose mainspring is not egotism are the dead and perhaps idiots. Miles Franklin idiotpeopleart the way to wean any one from a desire is not by condemnation of it. Miles Franklin condemnationdesireway Ah, the bitter, hopeless heart-hunger of godlessness none but an atheist can understand! Miles Franklin atheismatheistheart What I absorbed from autobiographies was not how to be great so much as the littleness of the great. Miles Franklin autobiography Before I was ten I became critical of the anthropomorphic God as interpreted in the churches. I did not warm to One thus revealed as the semblance of a bullying and mean old man who must have all his own way, be praised all the time and for attributes which were deplorable in us. Miles Franklin bullyingmenmean Cowards always drag in the Bible to back theirselves up far more than proper people does. Miles Franklin cowardbiblepeople Only a very small percentage can regard conditions from any but a selfish point of view or conceive of any but their own shoe-pinch. Miles Franklin selfishshoesviews
