Willa Cather Country Quotations

Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.

Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing and disheartening.

Isn't it queer: there are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before; like the larks in this country that have been singing the same five notes over for thousands of years

In a few hours one could cover that incalculable distance; from the winter country and homely neighbours, to the city where the air trembled like a tuning-fork with unimaginable possibilities.

Yet the summer which was to change everything was coming nearer every day. When boys and girls are growing up, life can't stand still, not even in the quietest of country towns; and they have to grow up, whether they will or no. That is what their elders are always forgetting.

The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or a woman.

People always think the bread of another country is better than their own.

Merely having seen the season change in a country gave one the sense of having been there for a long time.

There is something frank and joyous and young in the open face of the country. It gives itself ungrudgingly to the moods of the season, holding nothing back.

There was nothing but land; not a country at all, but the material out of which countries are made.

There seemed to be nothing to see; no fences, no creeks or trees, no hills or fields. If there was a road, I could not make it out in the faint starlight. There was nothing but land: not a country at all, but the material out of which countries are made.