Top 103 Quotes by Gertrude Stein

If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer.

But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don't get young men standing up and saying, 'How can I combine career and family?'

There is no real reality to a really imagined life any more.

It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.

A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.

I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.

Just before she died she asked, What is the answer? No answer came. She laughed and said, In that case, what is the question? Then she died.

Do you know because I tell you so, or do you know, do you know.

History takes time. History makes memory.

What is marriage, is marriage protection or religion, is marriage renunciation or abundance, is marriage a stepping-stone or an end. What is marriage.