"The Water is Wide" Quotes

Lord, it was a night to make a dog howl, and me a man grown.

Teaching is the hardest work I've ever done, and it's the best work I've ever done.

I was a stranger in my own land, a Yankee in the South.

I was only twenty-two years old and I was already used up.

I am not a racist. I hate everybody equally.

I'm a big, rawboned, freckle-faced, sandy-haired, cornfed fool of a teacher.

There’s no end to the love a man can give once he starts giving it.

I was adrift in a sea of ignorance.

When you’re the only white teacher on a black island, you better be a damn good one.

I wanted to be the best teacher in the world, but I was so far from that.