Quotes by Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

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Love is like the sea. It's a moving thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from the shore it meets, and it's diffe — Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God
Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships. — Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God
When God had made The Man, he made him out of stuff that sung all the time and glittered all over. Some angels got jealo — Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God
There are years that ask questions and years that answer. — Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God
People ugly from ignorance and broken from being poor. — Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God
All gods who receive homage are cruel. All gods dispense suffering without reason. Otherwise they would not be worshippe — Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God
Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board. For some they come in with the tide. For others they sail forever on — Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God
Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board. For some they come in with the tide. For others they sail forever on — Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God
She was stretched on her back beneath the pear tree soaking in the alto chant of the visiting bees, the gold of the sun — Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God
..she began to stand around the gate and expect things. What things? She didn't know exactly. Her breath was gusty and s — Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God
So she sat on the porch and watched the moon rise. Soon its amber fluid was drenching the earth, and quenching the thirs — Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God
Honey, de white man is de ruler of everything as fur as Ah been able tuh find out. Maybe it's some place way off in de o — Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God
Sometimes God gits familiar wid us womenfolks too and talks His inside business. He told me.how surprised y'all is goin' — Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God
They plan and they fix and they do, and then some kitchen-dwelling fiend slips a scorchy, soggy, tasteless mess into the — Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God
He was the average mortal. It troubled him to get used to the world one way and then suddenly have it turn different. — Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God
The monstropolous beast had left his bed. The two hundred miles a hour wind had loosed his chains. He seized hold of his — Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God
When Janie looked out of her door she saw the drifting mists gathered in the west -- that cloud field of the sky -- to a — Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God
Times and scenes like that put Janie to thinking about the inside state of her marriage. Time came when she fought back — Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God
For the first time she could see a man's head naked of its skull. Saw the cunning thoughts race in and out through the c — Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God
Janie knew that God tore down the old world every evening and built a new one by sun-up. It was wonderful to see it take — Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God