Afraid

Famous quotes containing the word afraid:

“I wanted to learn to fly, not because it was the smart thing to do in the 1920s, but because I was afraid of anything that flew.... I reasoned that if I learned to fly, I might conquer my fear of it. The remedy worked.”
—Joy Bright Hancock (1898–1986)

“When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them as if their reason had left them. When it has left a place where we have always found it, it is like shipwreck; we drop from security into something malevolent and bottomless.”
—Willa Cather (1876–1947)

““... John’s no threatener
Like some menfolk. No one’s afraid of him;
All is, he’s made up his mind not to stand
What he has got to stand.””
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)