Sprung

But with the increase

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But with the increase of serious and just ground of complaint, a new kind of patience had sprung up in her Mother’s mind. She was gentle and quiet in intense bodily suffering, almost in proportion as she had been restless and depressed when there had been no real cause for grief. Elizabeth Gaskell

Gertrude Jekyll, like Monet,

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Gertrude Jekyll, like Monet, was a painter with poor eyesight, and their gardens – his at Giverny in the Seine valley, hers in Surrey – had resemblance’s that may have sprung from this condition. Both loved plants that foamed and frothed over walls and pergolas, spread in tides beneath trees; both saw flowers in islands … Read more

Everyone\\’s opinion is of

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Everyone’s opinion is of equal value, which is bizarre to me. It’s so hard to get anybody cast because you’ll be on the phone with 15 people, and if anybody says I don’t know about that guy – move on. Wait a minute, why is that person’s note valid? It’s such a bizarre process that’s … Read more

But the most horrible

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But the most horrible spot …. lies….immediately south west of Oxford Road and is known as Little Ireland. The race that lives in these ruinous cottages, behind broken windows, mended with oilskin, sprung doors, and rotten door-posts, or in dark, wet cellars, in measureless filth and stench….must surely have reached the lowest stage of humanity. … Read more

I was just working

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I was just working in the shop and all of a sudden something just triggered in me, and I started shaking. And then I walked back into the house and my wife asked, ‘What’s the matter?’ And I said, ‘I don’t feel good.’ And tears, uncontrollable tears, was coming out of my eyes and she … Read more

Its [the anthropological method]

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Its [the anthropological method] power to make us understand the roots from which our civilization has sprung, that it impresses us with the relative value of all forms of culture, and thus serves as a check to an exaggerated valuation of the standpoint of our own period, which we are only too liable to consider … Read more

It seems that, after

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It seems that, after nineteen centuries of extraordinary glorification, the small Host for which so many cathedrals have sprung up, the small Host that has rested in millions of breasts and that has found a tabernacle and worshippers even in the desert – it seems that the triumphant Host of Lourdes and the Eucharistic Congresses … Read more