But the mother's yearning, that
completest type of the life in another
life which is the essence of real
human love, feels the presence
of the cherished child even in
the debased, degraded man.
?George Eliot
There is a need to find and
sing our own song, to stretch
our limbs and shake them in
a dance so wild that nothing
can roost there, that stirs the
yearning for solitary voyage.
?Barbara Lazear Ascher
In all ranks of life the human
heart yearns for the beautiful;
and the beautiful things that God
makes are his gift to all alike.
?Harriet Beecher Stowe
The best antidote I have found
is to yearn for something. As long
as you yearn, you can't congeal: there
is a forward motion to yearning.
?Gail Godwin
That man is a creature who needs
order yet yearns for change is the
creative contradiction at the heart of
the laws which structure his conformity
and define his deviancy.
?Freda Adler
I empathize with those who
yearn for a simpler world, for
some bygone golden age of domestic
and international tranquility. But
for the mass of humanity
it is an age that never was.
?Shirley Hufstedler
