Top 9 Quotes & Sayings by Josephine Lawrence

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American novelist Josephine Lawrence.

Last updated on December 22, 2024.

Josephine Lawrence (1889–1978) was an American novelist and journalist. Her works chronicled the lives of common people, with stories often filled with a large cast of bustling characters, emphasizing the everyday lives of children and the elderly.

American - Novelist | December 20, 1892 - February 22, 1978

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You can never tell what will happen to a theory before you can get around to using it.

Josephine Lawrence

I would not preach tolerance, which seems to me another name for condescension and presupposes faults in those to be tolerated ... Nor do I believe in demanding love - that should be the gift of a free will. But simply to be kind - that is not too much to ask of any of us.

Josephine Lawrence

Any fear is always worse than the thing itself.

Josephine Lawrence

At first trouble is a new experience - gradually you learn that - that it isn't fatal.

Josephine Lawrence

Perhaps for the purposes of war racial differences had been buried, but certainly in no deep grave.

Josephine Lawrence

if some folks have buried their racial prejudices, the chances are that they've got the graves marked and will have no trouble disinterring their pet hates.

Josephine Lawrence

Prejudice is a seeping, dark stain, I think, more difficult to fight than hatred-which is powerful and violent and somehow more honest.

Josephine Lawrence

Folks think that children will make up for all they ought to do and haven't done.

Josephine Lawrence

Real separation, to me, is the death of love. Any other - parting - well, it just isn't real.

Josephine Lawrence