Quotes from A Land More Kind Than Home

“I've heard it said before that those who don't learn from the past are bound to repeat it, and I just don't know what I think about that. I figure I don't have too much use for it. The past will just weigh on you if you spend too much time remembering it.”
― Wiley Cash, quote from A Land More Kind Than Home

“It's a good thing to see that people can heal after they've been broken, that they can change and become something different from what they were before.”
― Wiley Cash, quote from A Land More Kind Than Home

“But since then I've learned to just go ahead and take fairness out of the equation. If you do, things stand the chance of making a whole lot more sense.”
― Wiley Cash, quote from A Land More Kind Than Home

“[Death is] to lose the earth you know, for greater knowing; to lose the life you have, for greater life; to leave the friends you loved, for greater loving; to find a land more kind than home, more large than earth.” —THOMAS WOLFE, YOU CAN’T GO HOME AGAIN”
― Wiley Cash, quote from A Land More Kind Than Home

“It was expected that men's hands would be good and calloused by reins and shovels and the hands of other men whose lives they knew by the tough skin of their handshakes.”
― Wiley Cash, quote from A Land More Kind Than Home

“It was like a tree had sprung up between them, a tree that was just too thick to throw their arms around.”
― Wiley Cash, quote from A Land More Kind Than Home

“but some of these young folks are different, and they want times to be hard so they can prove something. Who they want to prove it to I just can't say.”
― Wiley Cash, quote from A Land More Kind Than Home

“It was like Mama was lost in the desert and had gotten so thirsty that she was willing to see anything that might make her feel better about being lost.”
― Wiley Cash, quote from A Land More Kind Than Home

“and I can tell you God makes us how he needs us to be.”
― Wiley Cash, quote from A Land More Kind Than Home

“I’ve learned to just go ahead and take fairness out of the equation. If you do, things stand the chance of making a whole lot more sense.”
― Wiley Cash, quote from A Land More Kind Than Home

“the hallway to the front door where the keys to the cruiser”
― Wiley Cash, quote from A Land More Kind Than Home

“But that tree that grew up between them was just a gnarly old thing with thick roots that ran deep and wild and tore at the ground until it opened up, and, once it did, Julie found herself clear across a great divide from Ben, so far apart that they couldn’t even see each other from where they stood.”
― Wiley Cash, quote from A Land More Kind Than Home

Video

About the author

Popular quotes

“‎...Gold is gold everywhere, fungible and indifferent. But when a disk of gold is stamped by a coiner with certain pompous words and the picture of a King, it takes on added value -- seigneurage. It has that value only in that people believe that it does -- it is a shared phant'sy.”
― Neal Stephenson, quote from The Confusion

“اذا قرات روايات واقاصيص شديدة الاغراق في الانفلات او ذهبت الى المسرح الفرنسي وعدت وتحدثت عما شاهدته فانك ستلاقي التشجيع والاطراء وعندما تتحدث عن الحقيقة والفقر والثراء ومشكلات المزراعين لوجد سامعوك كلامك سخيفا وشاذا”
― Leo Tolstoy, quote from Resurrection

“Most people don't seem to appreciate a person as honest as me. So don't ask me how George Washington ever got to be president.”
― Jeff Kinney, quote from Rodrick Rules

“Death went on, If I'd sent you, with your taste for expeditious methods, the matter would have been resolved, but times have changed a lot lately, and one has to update the means and the systems one uses, to keep up with the new technologies, by using e-mail, for example, I've heard tell that it's the most hygienic way, one that does away with inkblots and fingerprints, besides which it's fast, you just open up outlook express on microsoft and it's gone, the difficulty would be having to work with two separate archives, one for those who use computers and another for those who don't, anyway, we've got plenty of time to think about it, they're always coming out with new models and new designs, with new improved technologies, perhaps I'll try it some day, but until then, I'll continue to write with pen, paper and ink, it has the charm of tradition, and tradition counts for a lot when it comes to dying.”
― José Saramago, quote from Death with Interruptions

“I think that sometimes the only real thing is now.”
― Suzanne Young, quote from The Program

Interesting books

About BookQuoters

BookQuoters is a community of passionate readers who enjoy sharing the most meaningful, memorable and interesting quotes from great books. As the world communicates more and more via texts, memes and sound bytes, short but profound quotes from books have become more relevant and important. For some of us a quote becomes a mantra, a goal or a philosophy by which we live. For all of us, quotes are a great way to remember a book and to carry with us the author’s best ideas.

We thoughtfully gather quotes from our favorite books, both classic and current, and choose the ones that are most thought-provoking. Each quote represents a book that is interesting, well written and has potential to enhance the reader’s life. We also accept submissions from our visitors and will select the quotes we feel are most appealing to the BookQuoters community.

Founded in 2023, BookQuoters has quickly become a large and vibrant community of people who share an affinity for books. Books are seen by some as a throwback to a previous world; conversely, gleaning the main ideas of a book via a quote or a quick summary is typical of the Information Age but is a habit disdained by some diehard readers. We feel that we have the best of both worlds at BookQuoters; we read books cover-to-cover but offer you some of the highlights. We hope you’ll join us.