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Top 20 Janisse Ray Quotes (2024 Update)

Janisse Ray Quote: “Now I lay me down to sleep. I pay the Lord my soul to keep. If I should die before I wake, I pay the Lord my soul to take.”

1. “Now I lay me down to sleep. I pay the Lord my soul to keep. If I should die before I wake, I pay the Lord my soul to take.”

— Janisse Ray

Janisse Ray Quote: “I may not have a lot of hope but I have plenty of love, which gives me fight.”

2. “I may not have a lot of hope but I have plenty of love, which gives me fight.”

— Janisse Ray

Janisse Ray Quote: “She was so strong a ship could have been hewn from her body.”

3. “She was so strong a ship could have been hewn from her body.”

— Janisse Ray

Janisse Ray Quote: “Something happens to me when I garden. I am fully, reliably, blissfully present to who I am and where I am in that moment. I am an animal with a hundred different senses and all of them are switched on.”

4. “Something happens to me when I garden. I am fully, reliably, blissfully present to who I am and where I am in that moment. I am an animal with a hundred different senses and all of them are switched on.”

— Janisse Ray

Janisse Ray Quote: “Of what use to humanity, I ask myself, is a man who cannot see beyond his own hurt?”

5. “Of what use to humanity, I ask myself, is a man who cannot see beyond his own hurt?”

— Janisse Ray

Janisse Ray Quote: “Are you going to farmer up or just lie there and bleed?”

6. “Are you going to farmer up or just lie there and bleed?”

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Janisse Ray Quote: “Georgia Author Brenda Sutton Rose captures some of the conflicted and captivating characters of a rapidly changing South.”

7. “Georgia Author Brenda Sutton Rose captures some of the conflicted and captivating characters of a rapidly changing South.”

— Janisse Ray

Janisse Ray Quote: “Sometimes all we have is a little light that we can shine outward into a big darkness.”

8. “Sometimes all we have is a little light that we can shine outward into a big darkness.”

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Janisse Ray Quote: “Perhaps no word exists in our terribly inadequate English language to name this abstract, emotional thing that is not forgiveness, is not forgetting, and also is both.”

9. “Perhaps no word exists in our terribly inadequate English language to name this abstract, emotional thing that is not forgiveness, is not forgetting, and also is both.”

— Janisse Ray

Janisse Ray Quote: “A river can’t forgive because it is only capable, in the first place, of love. A river loves the dumpers, the polluters, the slayers, the nest-thieves, the bird-killers, the dammers, the water-stealers. A river loves even the clear-cutters. But I can forgive. I am trying to be like the river.”

10. “A river can’t forgive because it is only capable, in the first place, of love. A river loves the dumpers, the polluters, the slayers, the nest-thieves, the bird-killers, the dammers, the water-stealers. A river loves even the clear-cutters. But I can forgive. I am trying to be like the river.”

— Janisse Ray

Janisse Ray Quote: “What I am saying is that lovely, whimsical, and soulful things happen in a garden, leaving a gardener giddy.”

11. “What I am saying is that lovely, whimsical, and soulful things happen in a garden, leaving a gardener giddy.”

— Janisse Ray

Janisse Ray Quote: “Some things ought to exist outside capitalism, and wildness should be one of them.”

12. “Some things ought to exist outside capitalism, and wildness should be one of them.”

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Janisse Ray Quote: “In the wild world, relationship is evolutionary, time is geologic, beauty is intelligent. There we find ourselves under a powerful spell.”

13. “In the wild world, relationship is evolutionary, time is geologic, beauty is intelligent. There we find ourselves under a powerful spell.”

— Janisse Ray

Janisse Ray Quote: “A friendship is a lot like a fire. It can be hard to get started. After that it needs tending... A person can go around starting minuscule blazes, racing back and forth trying to feed them all; or a person can keep a few atomic bonfires burning high and bright.”

14. “A friendship is a lot like a fire. It can be hard to get started. After that it needs tending... A person can go around starting minuscule blazes, racing back and forth trying to feed them all; or a person can keep a few atomic bonfires burning high and bright.”

— Janisse Ray

Janisse Ray Quote: “Here in the country, on a little farm in southern Georgia, I am building a quiet life of resistance. I am a radical peasant, and every day I take out my little hammer, and I keep building.”

15. “Here in the country, on a little farm in southern Georgia, I am building a quiet life of resistance. I am a radical peasant, and every day I take out my little hammer, and I keep building.”

— Janisse Ray

Janisse Ray Quote: “Were my imagination greater I would grant stories to the souls lost to history. Were I able to hear with my bones I wold know the underside of their colossal silence.”

16. “Were my imagination greater I would grant stories to the souls lost to history. Were I able to hear with my bones I wold know the underside of their colossal silence.”

— Janisse Ray

Janisse Ray Quote: “Out beyond houses and mailboxes, roads and bridges, a person can see a realm that exists alongside this world in which we humans live.”

17. “Out beyond houses and mailboxes, roads and bridges, a person can see a realm that exists alongside this world in which we humans live.”

— Janisse Ray

Janisse Ray Quote: “Although I was reared on a junkyard by parents who did not waste time hiking or camping, I knew pine trees and pitcher plants, bobcats and brown thrashers, as my people.”

18. “Although I was reared on a junkyard by parents who did not waste time hiking or camping, I knew pine trees and pitcher plants, bobcats and brown thrashers, as my people.”

— Janisse Ray

Janisse Ray Quote: “What is clear is that genius, whether it is represented by a Thomas Edison or an Albert Einstein or an Alberto Ramirez, leaves the world a better place.”

19. “What is clear is that genius, whether it is represented by a Thomas Edison or an Albert Einstein or an Alberto Ramirez, leaves the world a better place.”

— Janisse Ray

Janisse Ray Quote: “I want to tell you about the most hopeful thing in the world. It is a seed.”

20. “I want to tell you about the most hopeful thing in the world. It is a seed.”

— Janisse Ray

Janisse Ray Quote: “Most of us, most of our lives, are asked to live small. Most of us quit trying very young to live the bigness we know is possible.”

21. “Most of us, most of our lives, are asked to live small. Most of us quit trying very young to live the bigness we know is possible.”

— Janisse Ray

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