Anne Sullivan Quotations

Certain periods in history suddenly lift humanity to an observation point where a clear light falls upon a world previously dark.

We all like stories that make us cry. It's so nice to feel sad when you've nothing in particular to feel sad about.

No matter how mistaken Communist ideas may be, the experience and knowledge gained by trying them out have given a tremendous impetus to thought and imagination.

Our material eye cannot see that a stupid chauvinism is driving us from one noisy, destructive, futile agitation to another.

The truth is not wonderful enough to suit the newspapers; so they enlarge upon it, and invent ridiculous embellishments.

We have no firm hold on any knowledge or philosophy that can lift us out of our difficulties.

I'd rather break stones on the king's highway than hem a handkerchief.

I cannot explain it; but when difficulties arise, I am not perplexed or doubtful. I know how to meet them.

Yes, I am proud, and very humble too.

It's a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things.