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Top 20 Reynolds Price Quotes (2025 Update)

Reynolds Price Quote: “Cities are the least permanent things in our civilization.”

1. “Cities are the least permanent things in our civilization.”

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2. “Strength just comes in one brand – you. Stand up at sunrise and meet what they send you and keep your hair combed.”

— Reynolds Price

Reynolds Price Quote: “The only thing more destructive than a tornado is a family.”

3. “The only thing more destructive than a tornado is a family.”

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Reynolds Price Quote: “Life is short and often stingy; feast the heart with what it craves, short of cruelty, and let the world wonder.”

4. “Life is short and often stingy; feast the heart with what it craves, short of cruelty, and let the world wonder.”

— Reynolds Price

Reynolds Price Quote: “A need to tell and hear stories is essential to the species Homo sapiens – second in necessity apparently after nourishment and before love and shelter. Millions survive without love or home, almost none in silence; the opposite of silence leads quickly to narrative, and the sound of story is the dominant sound of our lives, from the small accounts of our day’s events to the vast incommunicable constructs of psychopaths.”

5. “A need to tell and hear stories is essential to the species Homo sapiens – second in necessity apparently after nourishment and before love and shelter. Millions survive without love or home, almost none in silence; the opposite of silence leads quickly to narrative, and the sound of story is the dominant sound of our lives, from the small accounts of our day’s events to the vast incommunicable constructs of psychopaths.”

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Reynolds Price Quote: “We crave nothing less that the perfect story; And while we chatter or listen all our lives to a din of craving – jokes, anecdotes, novels, dreams, films, plays, songs, half the words of our days – We are satisfied only by the one short tale we feel to be true; History is the will of a just God who knows us.”

6. “We crave nothing less that the perfect story; And while we chatter or listen all our lives to a din of craving – jokes, anecdotes, novels, dreams, films, plays, songs, half the words of our days – We are satisfied only by the one short tale we feel to be true; History is the will of a just God who knows us.”

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Reynolds Price Quote: “The death of every art form seems imminent at least once in every century; but while the very funeral arrangements go forward, some child is born who is Michelangelo, Picasso, Yeats.”

7. “The death of every art form seems imminent at least once in every century; but while the very funeral arrangements go forward, some child is born who is Michelangelo, Picasso, Yeats.”

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Reynolds Price Quote: “Writing is a fearsome but grand vocation – potentially healing but likewise deadly. I wouldn’t trade my life for the world.”

8. “Writing is a fearsome but grand vocation – potentially healing but likewise deadly. I wouldn’t trade my life for the world.”

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Reynolds Price Quote: “Many Americans would die naked in the middle of the road before they’d tell you what’s hurt them most. But a born Southerner will show you the cell in their heart that burns the hardest. They’ll hold it out to you in their bare right hand.”

9. “Many Americans would die naked in the middle of the road before they’d tell you what’s hurt them most. But a born Southerner will show you the cell in their heart that burns the hardest. They’ll hold it out to you in their bare right hand.”

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Reynolds Price Quote: “The older I’ve got the less I find myself going back and re-reading or really reading new fiction or poetry.”

10. “The older I’ve got the less I find myself going back and re-reading or really reading new fiction or poetry.”

— Reynolds Price

Reynolds Price Quote: “Stand up at sunrise and meet what they send you.”

11. “Stand up at sunrise and meet what they send you.”

— Reynolds Price

Reynolds Price Quote: “What I still ask for daily-for life as long as I have work to do, and work as long as I have life.”

12. “What I still ask for daily-for life as long as I have work to do, and work as long as I have life.”

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Reynolds Price Quote: “I think we Southerners have talked a fair amount of malarkey about the mystique of being Southern.”

13. “I think we Southerners have talked a fair amount of malarkey about the mystique of being Southern.”

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Reynolds Price Quote: “From the age of six I wanted to be an artist. At that point I meant a painter, but it turned out what I really meant was I was someone who was very interested in watching the world and making copies of it.”

14. “From the age of six I wanted to be an artist. At that point I meant a painter, but it turned out what I really meant was I was someone who was very interested in watching the world and making copies of it.”

— Reynolds Price

Reynolds Price Quote: “The happiness of others. He adored them through tears.”

15. “The happiness of others. He adored them through tears.”

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Reynolds Price Quote: “Southerners ask intimate questions in the way monkeys groom each other for lice, not to pry but to make you feel cared for.”

16. “Southerners ask intimate questions in the way monkeys groom each other for lice, not to pry but to make you feel cared for.”

— Reynolds Price

Reynolds Price Quote: “The sound of story is the dominant sound of our lives.”

17. “The sound of story is the dominant sound of our lives.”

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Reynolds Price Quote: “I’ve met little meanness, wherever I went.”

18. “I’ve met little meanness, wherever I went.”

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Reynolds Price Quote: “Even now, after whatever gains feminism has made in involving fathers in the rearing of their children, I still think virtually all of us spend the most formative years of our lives very much in the presence of women.”

19. “Even now, after whatever gains feminism has made in involving fathers in the rearing of their children, I still think virtually all of us spend the most formative years of our lives very much in the presence of women.”

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Reynolds Price Quote: “Women then very seldom wore watches. They did their chores till the chores were finished or they fell over dead, whichever came first.”

20. “Women then very seldom wore watches. They did their chores till the chores were finished or they fell over dead, whichever came first.”

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