Elizabeth Gaskell Quotes

I have passed out of childhood into old age. I have had no youth - no womanhood; the hopes of womanhood have closed for me - for I shall never marry; and I anticipate cares and sorrows just as if I were an old woman, and with the same fearful spirit.

Elizabeth Gaskell

• Childhood
• Spirit
• Sorrows
• Womanhood

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• This I know; the spirit of Man cannot be stopped.

  

  Walter Reisch
  • Man
  • Know
  • Spirit

• The childhood poverty of both my parents and their minimal education did much to influence me and my two younger brothers in our education and career choices. One brother became a dentist and the other, a professor of anthropology with a Ph.D. degree.

  

  Ferid Murad
  • Career
  • Parents
  • Education

• I think fractures in your childhood make you observe the world more as an outsider. Possibly it pushes you outside.

  

  Pam Ferris
  • World
  • Think
  • Childhood

• A lot of my childhood memories involve walking home in floods of tears. At that age, feeling unpopular is difficult to handle.

  

  Rachel Stevens
  • Home
  • Age
  • Feeling

• The spirit, like the body, can be strengthened and developed by frequent exercise. Just as the body, if neglected, grows weaker and finally impotent, so the spirit perishes if untended.

  

  Wassily Kandinsky
  • Body
  • Spirit
  • Exercise

• I was born in a very poor family. I used to sell tea in a railway coach as a child. My mother used to wash utensils and do lowly household work in the houses of others to earn a livelihood. I have seen poverty very closely. I have lived in poverty. As a child, my entire childhood was steeped in poverty.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Work
  • Family
  • Mother

• I do hear from people at my exhibition about seeing these things made from this toy from their childhood, and it brings them back. They'll go and buy a set of Lego from the gift shop because of that nostalgia and seeing it at the art exhibition.

  

  Nathan Sawaya
  • People
  • Art
  • Childhood

• I never experienced much outright anti-Semitism. While we learned about the Holocaust - endlessly, it felt like - no spray-painted swastika ever appeared on my childhood landscape. Jewish persecution was an ever-looming reality, but always an abstract one.

  

  Laura Moser
  • Reality
  • Childhood
  • Holocaust

• So the first step out of childhood is made all at once, without looking before or behind, without caution, and nothing held in reserve.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Childhood

• If the believers of the present-day religions would earnestly try to think and act in the spirit of the founders of these religions then no hostility on the basis of religion would exist among the followers of the different faiths. Even the conflicts and the realm of religion would be exposed as insignificant.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Religion
  • Spirit
  • Believers

• The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death.

  

  Desiderius Erasmus
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• I have great childhood memories cow-tipping, going off and getting lost in the bog for hours, and coming home covered in dirt.

  

  Emily Ratajkowski
  • Great
  • Home
  • Lost

• I would trade everything I have to have had a happier childhood.

  

  Louie Anderson
  • Childhood

• I had a great childhood.

  

  Miranda Lambert
  • Great
  • Childhood

• My childhood, I would say, was a bit sad.

  

  Columba Bush
  • Childhood
  • Sad

• When I write about my childhood I think, oh my God, how did I ever get from there to here? Not that any great thing has happened to me. But I felt so tiny, so lost.

  

  Paul Theroux
  • Great
  • God
  • Lost

• I never had a true childhood.

  

  Bethenny Frankel
  • True
  • Childhood

• I do not remember any proper children's books in my childhood. I was not exposed to them.

  

  Maurice Sendak
  • Children
  • Remember
  • Childhood

• One of my few childhood memories is as an eight-year-old, refused permission to watch the Hitchcock season on Irish television, sneakily viewing 'The Birds' though a crack in the living-room door. It transformed my hitherto perfectly enjoyable half-mile walk to school, down a country lane patrolled by watchful birds, into a terrifying ordeal.

  

  Mariella Frostrup
  • Country
  • School
  • Childhood

• I still love making hamburgers on the grill. I guess whenever I eat them childhood memories come up for me.

  

  Bobby Flay
  • Up
  • Childhood
  • Memories

• They may kill me, but they cannot kill my ideas. They can crush my body, but they will not be able to crush my spirit.

  

  Bhagat Singh
  • May
  • Spirit
  • Able

• Dance is fun! It lifts the spirit, stringthens the body, and stimulates the mind.

  

  Wayne Sleep
  • Dance
  • Spirit
  • Stimulates

• Flaws would not only bring death but, far worse, humiliation.

  

  William Goldman
  • Flaws
  • Humiliation

• I have passed out of childhood into old age. I have had no youth - no womanhood; the hopes of womanhood have closed for me - for I shall never marry; and I anticipate cares and sorrows just as if I were an old woman, and with the same fearful spirit.

  

  Elizabeth Gaskell
  • Childhood
  • Spirit
  • Sorrows