Constance Spry Quotes
China tea, the scent of hyacinths, wood fires and bowls of violets – that is my mental picture of an agreeable February afternoon.
Quotes to Explore
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You get your inspiration - suggestions - wherever you have to, even from your mother.
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If you needed to borrow a cup of sugar, you knocked on your neighbour's door.
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What have we achieved since the end of the Second World War? We have allowed petty, bourgeois regimes in which everything is average, mediocre.
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Everything I have in this world, I owe to the sport of boxing, and I won't ever forget that.
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I'm learning to accept everything that I am. I've accepted that I'm not going to be a stick-thin-model kind of girl. When I was 14, I was tall and spindly. By the time I turned 18, I had become a woman, and my body's not going to go back to what it looked like when I was 14.
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I love driving around east London - it's always full of surprises. Actually, I don't drive myself - I like to be driven.
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It still frightens me a little bit to think that so much of my life was totally devoted to Star Trek and almost nothing else.
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He begins to think for himself and meets Nineteenth-century Rationalism Which can explain away religion by any number of methods.
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Nothing reopens the springs of love so fully as absence, and no absence so thoroughly as that which must needs be endless.
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I hate to spread rumours: but what else can one do with them?
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First there was space-endless, limitless space, so far from everything, so brutal, so frigid, so uncaring that it numbed the mind, not so much from fear or loneliness as from the realization that in this eternity of space the thing that was himself was dwarfed to an insignificance no yardstick could measure.
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I like to think I was just lucky. I didn't think I was better than anybody else, but I could sing everybody's songs.
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Change is hard but inevitable.
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I was fortunate and I was lucky that I had a couple of people in my life who cared about me. I had good, loving parents.
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I would die if I had to be confined. I don't want to feel that I'm missing out on experiencing as much as I can. For me, experiencing is knowing people all over the world and being able to photograph.
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I was in the seventh grade when I first began to identify as trans and express my gender identity as a girl. My social transition began with growing my hair and wearing clothes and makeup that made me feel like Destiny's Fourth Child.
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I was in line at a store and there was a little girl, she was standing in line next to me and some other girls had come up to me and recognized me from 'Pretty Little Liars.' When they walked away, this girl was staring at me, and her eyes got so big, and she started crying. It was, like, the cutest thing.
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Evolution is a theory, and it's a theory that you can test. We've tested evolution in many ways. You can't present good evidence that says evolution is not a fact.
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What kind of influence did my parents have on my life? Well, they had the most influence. These are the people who are closest to me. My parents are very positive people. They've been supportive. They're always there.
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Cooking is one of the strongest ceremonies for life. When recipes are put together, the kitchen is a chemical laboratory involving air, fire, water and the earth. This is what gives value to humans and elevates their spiritual qualities. If you take a frozen box and stick it in the microwave, you become connected to the factory.
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I thought my fire was out, and stirred the ashes…. I burnt my fingers.
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Reason is mechanical, wit chemical, and genius organic spirit.
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A picnic may well be a metaphor for life. The essentials for happiness are the right company, moderate if sanguine expectations and a reasonable standard of physical sustenance and comfort, the whole being bedeviled by the belief that there is always something better to be had if only one presses on.
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China tea, the scent of hyacinths, wood fires and bowls of violets – that is my mental picture of an agreeable February afternoon.
