A.B. Guthrie Jr. > Quotes

“Nouns and verbs are the guts of the language. Beware of covering up with adjectives and adverbs.”
― A.B. Guthrie Jr.

“امنح بعض الرجال بندقية وشيئا من السلطة، وسوف تراهم يقومون بتنفيذ الأوامر بعنجهية وغباوة.”
― A.B. Guthrie Jr., The Way West

“God must like to get off by Himself sometimes and caper. Must get mighty tiresome, keepin' tally on folks and gettin' the sun up and tuckin' it in bed and bringin' the rain on and all, and all the time actin' stiff and proper. That surely was it, God must like to throw Himself around some and be silly if He felt like it.”
― A.B. Guthrie Jr., The Big Sky

“الأرض التي لا تنمو فيها شجرة لن ينمو فيها أي شئ.”
― A.B. Guthrie Jr., The Way West

“إنني أؤمن بالله أيضا، ولكني لا أؤمن بأنه يوافق على التهور واللامبالاة.. إنه يُريد من الإنسان أن يُساعد نفسه.”
― A.B. Guthrie Jr., The Way West

“الرجال يتحدثون في موضوعات لا تتسم بالحياد وهم منفردون، ولكن الأدب والحياء والرقة تفيض منهم جميعا حينما يتحدثون في حضرة بعض النساء.. إن الرجال أكثر رقة ولطفا وأدبا حين وجود الجنس الآخر بينهم.”
― A.B. Guthrie Jr., The Way West

“Dad used to read aloud to us from Dickens and Kipling. My tastes were omnivorous. I read anything I could lay my hands on, but the memory that stays with me is that of my father reading the Jungle Books to us when we were young. Beautiful stories!”
― A. B. Guthrie, Jr.

“إنها ليست مسألة إيمان، لكنها مسألة عقل ومنطق.”
― A.B. Guthrie Jr., The Way West

“إن البيت الذي تعيش فيه المرأة فترة طويلة، وتكون قد لمست كل زاوية من زواياه، ووطئت قدماها كل ركن من أركان أرضه، يظل في ذاكرتها، ويراود مخيلتها ليلا نهارا، فهي تتذكر الميلاد والموت، والصغار، والأحاديث السارة التي تدور بين الذين يتزوجون حديثا.”
― A.B. Guthrie Jr., The Way West

“هل تريد أن تجلس على المقعد وتترك الآخرين يصنعون التاريخ؟”
― A.B. Guthrie Jr., The Way West

“He had lived a man's life, and now it was at an end, and what had he to show for it? Two horses and a few fixin's and a letter of credit for three hundred and forty-three dollars. That was all, unless you counted the way he had felt about living and the fun he had had while time ran along unnoticed. It had been rich doings, except that he wondered at the last, seeing everything behind him and nothing ahead. It was strange about time: it slipped under a man like quiet water, soft and unheeded but taking a part of him with every drop - a little quickness of the muscles, a little sharpness of the eye, a little of his youngness, until by and by he found it had taken the best of him almost unbeknownst. He wanted to fight it then, to hold it back, to catch what had been borne away. It wasn't that he minded going under, it wasn't that he was afraid to die and rot and forget and be forgotten; it was that things were lost to him more and more - the happy feeling, the strong doing, the fresh taste for things like drink and women and danger, the friends he had fought and funned with, the notion that each new day would be better than the last, good as the last one was. A man's later life was all a long losing, of friends and fun and hope, until at last time took the mite that was left of him and so closed the score.”
― A.B. Guthrie Jr., The Big Sky

“إن الرجل لا يميل إلى القيام بأعمال النساء.”
― A.B. Guthrie Jr., The Way West

“يجب على صاحب أي حانوت "بقالة" أن يعرف كيف يكون سريعا في سحب مسدسه.”
― A.B. Guthrie Jr., The Way West

“إنني نحيف لكنني قوي مثل الشوك الذي يعلو ظهر القنفذ.”
― A.B. Guthrie Jr., The Way West

“Raw or not, the women did their part and more. They traveled head to head with men, showing no more fear and asking no favor. ...... They had a kind of toughness in them that you might not think, seeing them in a parlor. So on a trail, women came to speak and men to listen almost as if to other men. It was lucky for the pride of men that few traveled with their wives to Oregon. They'd never quite believe again a woman was to look at but not to listen to.”
― A.B. Guthrie Jr.

“شعر بالسعادة والبهجة التي لا يستطيع أن يُعبر عنها لأي إنسان، لأنها كانت كافية في نفسه.”
― A.B. Guthrie Jr., The Way West

“إنني أصغر من أن أموت، وأكبر من أن أرضع.”
― A.B. Guthrie Jr., The Way West

“لا توجد عربة أو قاطرة تسير بالديون.”
― A.B. Guthrie Jr., The Way West

“أرغب في الذهاب إلى مكان لم أذهب إليه من قبل.”
― A.B. Guthrie Jr., The Way West

“كان يشعر بالحزن أو بشئ من الحزن، كما كان يعرف أن الصغار هم الذين يُواجهون الموت بخيبة أمل لأنهم لا يتوقعون من الله القادر أن يُنفذ مشيئته هكذا، أما الرجال فإنهم يتلقون الخسائر والمصائب كما تأتي، والرجل الذي يبلغ الخمسين من العمر يشعر بذلك ويتذكر الوداع القديم.”
― A.B. Guthrie Jr., The Way West

“الناس لا يخضعون للتجمد في منطقة معينة، وإنما يظلون يتحركون وينظرون إلى غايات بعيدة حتى ولو كانوا لا يستطيعون التحرك.”
― A.B. Guthrie Jr., The Way West

“ليس هناك أي منطق في دفع المعدة إلى العمل من أجل لا شئ.”
― A.B. Guthrie Jr., The Way West

“يجب على الإنسان أن يستمع إلى جميع أنواع النصائح لأنه يرغب أن يكون متثبتا من كل شئ.”
― A.B. Guthrie Jr., The Way West

“It was lucky for the pride of men that few traveled with their wives to Oregon. They'd never quite believe again a woman was to look at but not to listen to.”
― A.B. Guthrie Jr., The Way West

“يُفكر الإنسان في شئ واحد، هو الأشياء التي سبق أن فقدها فيما مضي.”
― A.B. Guthrie Jr., The Way West

“All the same he got a pinch of misery, thinking, just as he had sometimes in Kentucky when he'd be out in the woods, feeling good that he was alone, with everything to himself, and then he would spy someone and it would all be spoiled, as if the country wasn't his any more, or the woods or the quiet.”
― A.B. Guthrie Jr., The Big Sky

“كانت السنون قد أطفأت البريق الذي كان يلمع في عينيه الرماديتين.”
― A.B. Guthrie Jr., The Way West