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Top 30 Bess Streeter Aldrich Quotes (2025 Update)

Bess Streeter Aldrich Quote: “It takes a small town to keep you humble.”

1. “It takes a small town to keep you humble.”

— Bess Streeter Aldrich

Bess Streeter Aldrich Quote: “There is no division nor subtraction in the heart-arithmetic of a good mother. There are only addition and multiplication.”

2. “There is no division nor subtraction in the heart-arithmetic of a good mother. There are only addition and multiplication.”

— Bess Streeter Aldrich

Bess Streeter Aldrich Quote: “You have to dream things out. It keeps a kind of an ideal before you. You see it first in your mind and then you set about to try and make it like the ideal. If you want a garden,-why, I guess you’ve got to dream a garden.”

3. “You have to dream things out. It keeps a kind of an ideal before you. You see it first in your mind and then you set about to try and make it like the ideal. If you want a garden,-why, I guess you’ve got to dream a garden.”

— Bess Streeter Aldrich

Bess Streeter Aldrich Quote: “Our souls may all be equal in the sight of the Lord, but our gumption and ingenuity ain’t. So the results of man’s labor will never be equal.”

4. “Our souls may all be equal in the sight of the Lord, but our gumption and ingenuity ain’t. So the results of man’s labor will never be equal.”

— Bess Streeter Aldrich

Bess Streeter Aldrich Quote: “When I was young I had no means or time, and now I have the means and time, I have no youth.”

5. “When I was young I had no means or time, and now I have the means and time, I have no youth.”

— Bess Streeter Aldrich

Bess Streeter Aldrich Quote: “The greatest antidote in the world for grief is work, and the necessity of work.”

6. “The greatest antidote in the world for grief is work, and the necessity of work.”

— Bess Streeter Aldrich

Bess Streeter Aldrich Quote: “It was true, she thought, that the big things awe us but the little things touch us.”

7. “It was true, she thought, that the big things awe us but the little things touch us.”

— Bess Streeter Aldrich

Bess Streeter Aldrich Quote: “If the faith of all the mothers could blossom to its full fruition, there would be no unsuccessful men in the land.”

8. “If the faith of all the mothers could blossom to its full fruition, there would be no unsuccessful men in the land.”

— Bess Streeter Aldrich

Bess Streeter Aldrich Quote: “Love is the light that you see by.”

9. “Love is the light that you see by.”

— Bess Streeter Aldrich

Bess Streeter Aldrich Quote: “Except for our higher order of minds we are like the little moles under the earth carrying out blindly the work of digging, thinking our own dark passage-ways constitute all there is to the world.”

10. “Except for our higher order of minds we are like the little moles under the earth carrying out blindly the work of digging, thinking our own dark passage-ways constitute all there is to the world.”

— Bess Streeter Aldrich

Bess Streeter Aldrich Quote: “Regardless of the popular literary trend of the times, write the thing which lies close to your heart.”

11. “Regardless of the popular literary trend of the times, write the thing which lies close to your heart.”

— Bess Streeter Aldrich

Bess Streeter Aldrich Quote: “And standing there... old Abbie Deal began to cry. They are the most painful tears in the world... the tears of the aged... for they come from dried beds where the emotions have long burned low.”

12. “And standing there... old Abbie Deal began to cry. They are the most painful tears in the world... the tears of the aged... for they come from dried beds where the emotions have long burned low.”

— Bess Streeter Aldrich

Bess Streeter Aldrich Quote: “Things last so much longer than people.”

13. “Things last so much longer than people.”

— Bess Streeter Aldrich

Bess Streeter Aldrich Quote: “It is better to remember our love as it was in the springtime.”

14. “It is better to remember our love as it was in the springtime.”

— Bess Streeter Aldrich

Bess Streeter Aldrich Quote: “Small wonder that love would break under circumstances like these. Standing there in the soddie door, she seemed two personalities. One argued bitterly that it was impossible for love to keep going when there was no hope for the future, suggested that there was no use trying to keep it going. The other said sternly that marriage was not the fulfillment of a passion, – marriage was the fulfillment of love. And love was sometimes pleasure and sometimes duty.”

15. “Small wonder that love would break under circumstances like these. Standing there in the soddie door, she seemed two personalities. One argued bitterly that it was impossible for love to keep going when there was no hope for the future, suggested that there was no use trying to keep it going. The other said sternly that marriage was not the fulfillment of a passion, – marriage was the fulfillment of love. And love was sometimes pleasure and sometimes duty.”

— Bess Streeter Aldrich

Bess Streeter Aldrich Quote: “Mrs. Schneiderman’s theory of life was that earth held no sorrow that food could not heal...”

16. “Mrs. Schneiderman’s theory of life was that earth held no sorrow that food could not heal...”

— Bess Streeter Aldrich

Bess Streeter Aldrich Quote: “She wondered why she, herself, was always touched by such infinitesimal things. Their very homeliness and lack of worth seemed connecting the past with the present all the more. It was true, she thought, that the big things awe us but the little things touch us.”

17. “She wondered why she, herself, was always touched by such infinitesimal things. Their very homeliness and lack of worth seemed connecting the past with the present all the more. It was true, she thought, that the big things awe us but the little things touch us.”

— Bess Streeter Aldrich

Bess Streeter Aldrich Quote: “That was the trouble of being old. Your body no longer obeyed you. It did unruly and unreasonable things. An eye suddenly might not see for a moment. Your knees gave out at the wrong time, so that when you thought you were walking north, you might find yourself going a little northwest. Your brain, too, had that same flighty trick. You might be speaking of something and forget it temporarily, – your mind going off at a little to the northwest, too, so to speak.”

18. “That was the trouble of being old. Your body no longer obeyed you. It did unruly and unreasonable things. An eye suddenly might not see for a moment. Your knees gave out at the wrong time, so that when you thought you were walking north, you might find yourself going a little northwest. Your brain, too, had that same flighty trick. You might be speaking of something and forget it temporarily, – your mind going off at a little to the northwest, too, so to speak.”

— Bess Streeter Aldrich

Bess Streeter Aldrich Quote: “For though love has been ridiculed and disgraced, exchanged and bartered, dragged through the courts, and sold for thirty pieces of silver, the bright, steady glow of its fire still shines on the hearth-stones of countless homes...”

19. “For though love has been ridiculed and disgraced, exchanged and bartered, dragged through the courts, and sold for thirty pieces of silver, the bright, steady glow of its fire still shines on the hearth-stones of countless homes...”

— Bess Streeter Aldrich

Bess Streeter Aldrich Quote: “Some girls are apparently born with dates; some through much personal activity, achieve them; but others seem by necessity to have dates thrust upon them.”

20. “Some girls are apparently born with dates; some through much personal activity, achieve them; but others seem by necessity to have dates thrust upon them.”

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Bess Streeter Aldrich Quote: “And so a greater share of the night, Laura shed tears into her soft white pillow. Some of them were for old Oscar Lutz... Some of them were for the general sad fact that hours fly and flowers die. But most of them were shed because of her own sudden and definite realization that even though there come new days and new ways, – love stays.”

21. “And so a greater share of the night, Laura shed tears into her soft white pillow. Some of them were for old Oscar Lutz... Some of them were for the general sad fact that hours fly and flowers die. But most of them were shed because of her own sudden and definite realization that even though there come new days and new ways, – love stays.”

— Bess Streeter Aldrich

Bess Streeter Aldrich Quote: “Sometime in their lives, everybody wanted to go home.”

22. “Sometime in their lives, everybody wanted to go home.”

— Bess Streeter Aldrich

Bess Streeter Aldrich Quote: “What makes it smell so sweet?” they wanted to know. “Because everything, – every little wild plum-blossom, every little tiny crocus and anemone and violet and every tree-bud and grass-blade is working to help make the prairie nice.”

23. “What makes it smell so sweet?” they wanted to know. “Because everything, – every little wild plum-blossom, every little tiny crocus and anemone and violet and every tree-bud and grass-blade is working to help make the prairie nice.”

— Bess Streeter Aldrich

Bess Streeter Aldrich Quote: “And now Abbie had the new experience of attempting to keep another person courageous. It was more trying than to keep up her own spirits. Why must she always be strong for other people?”

24. “And now Abbie had the new experience of attempting to keep another person courageous. It was more trying than to keep up her own spirits. Why must she always be strong for other people?”

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Bess Streeter Aldrich Quote: “Home was something besides so much lumber and plaster. You built your thoughts into the frame work. You planted a little of your heart with the trees and the shrubbery.”

25. “Home was something besides so much lumber and plaster. You built your thoughts into the frame work. You planted a little of your heart with the trees and the shrubbery.”

— Bess Streeter Aldrich

Bess Streeter Aldrich Quote: “Oh, why couldn’t they know? Why did an old woman seem always to have been old? Abbie was back on the knoll near the Big Woods, singing... her head thrown back... her thick hair curling and rippling over her creamy white shoulders. Why couldn’t they understand that once she had kept tryst with Youth? Why didn’t they realize that some day, they, too must hold rendezvous with Age?”

26. “Oh, why couldn’t they know? Why did an old woman seem always to have been old? Abbie was back on the knoll near the Big Woods, singing... her head thrown back... her thick hair curling and rippling over her creamy white shoulders. Why couldn’t they understand that once she had kept tryst with Youth? Why didn’t they realize that some day, they, too must hold rendezvous with Age?”

— Bess Streeter Aldrich

Bess Streeter Aldrich Quote: “Abbie Deal went happily about her work, one baby in her arms and the other at her skirts, courage her lode-star and love her guide, – a song upon her lips and a lantern in her hand.”

27. “Abbie Deal went happily about her work, one baby in her arms and the other at her skirts, courage her lode-star and love her guide, – a song upon her lips and a lantern in her hand.”

— Bess Streeter Aldrich

Bess Streeter Aldrich Quote: “The whole period seemed to come alive to her sensitive imagination, – the people of the times, substantial and courageous, walked and talked with her. For the first time she was sensing to-day a romance in her own Midwest, a glamour over the lives of her own people. She wished she could hold to her heart the fleeting sensation until she could get pencil and paper. She wished she could catch it and hold it between the covers of a book.”

28. “The whole period seemed to come alive to her sensitive imagination, – the people of the times, substantial and courageous, walked and talked with her. For the first time she was sensing to-day a romance in her own Midwest, a glamour over the lives of her own people. She wished she could hold to her heart the fleeting sensation until she could get pencil and paper. She wished she could catch it and hold it between the covers of a book.”

— Bess Streeter Aldrich

Bess Streeter Aldrich Quote: “In 1846 the prairie town of Oak River existed only in a settler’s dream.”

29. “In 1846 the prairie town of Oak River existed only in a settler’s dream.”

— Bess Streeter Aldrich

Bess Streeter Aldrich Quote: “Abbie would stop in her work and utter a prayer for him, – and, sent as it were from the bow of a mother’s watchful care, bound by the cord of a mother’s love, the little winged arrow on its flight must have reached Some one, – Somewhere.”

30. “Abbie would stop in her work and utter a prayer for him, – and, sent as it were from the bow of a mother’s watchful care, bound by the cord of a mother’s love, the little winged arrow on its flight must have reached Some one, – Somewhere.”

— Bess Streeter Aldrich

Bess Streeter Aldrich Quote: “You could not stop the winds and you could not stop Time. It went on and on,-and on.”

31. “You could not stop the winds and you could not stop Time. It went on and on,-and on.”

— Bess Streeter Aldrich

Bess Streeter Aldrich Quote: “Aunt Grace was leaving... Looking after her a moment, Laura had another feeling of tenderness toward her. How we live our lives side by side with those whom we never know or understand.”

32. “Aunt Grace was leaving... Looking after her a moment, Laura had another feeling of tenderness toward her. How we live our lives side by side with those whom we never know or understand.”

— Bess Streeter Aldrich

Bess Streeter Aldrich Quote: “If I can’t see stories in the lives of the people around me, – I just couldn’t see them anywhere. If I can’t see drama in humanity near me, I guess I couldn’t detect it in humans far away.”

33. “If I can’t see stories in the lives of the people around me, – I just couldn’t see them anywhere. If I can’t see drama in humanity near me, I guess I couldn’t detect it in humans far away.”

— Bess Streeter Aldrich

Bess Streeter Aldrich Quote: “A person may encircle the globe with mind open only to bodily comfort. Another may live his life on a sixty-foot lot and listen to the voices of the universe.”

34. “A person may encircle the globe with mind open only to bodily comfort. Another may live his life on a sixty-foot lot and listen to the voices of the universe.”

— Bess Streeter Aldrich

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