Childe Quotes

#1. The dark tower. Childe Roland to the dark tower came. #Quote by Harper Lee

#2. If she were studying Orciny, and there might be excellent reasons to do so, she'd be doing her doctorate in Folklore or Anthropology or maybe Comp Lit. Granted, the edges of disciplines are getting vague. Also that Mahalia is one of a number of young archaeologists more interested in Foucault and Baudrillard than in Gordon Childe or in trowels. #Quote by China Mieville

#3. The few surviving photographs of Childe certainly confirm that he was no beauty - he was skinny and chinless, with squinting eyes behind owlish spectacles, and a mustache that looked as if it might at any moment stir to life and crawl away - but whatever unkind things people might say about the outside of his head, the inside was a place of golden splendor. #Quote by Bill Bryson

#4. I do not always find the streets interesting, so I wait until I see picturesque groups and those that compose well in relation to the whole. #Quote by Childe Hassam

#5. We are all cynics now, I suppose, and even a mewling infant knows that to save a life is to make an eternal enemy. #Quote by Paul Hoffman

#6. The artist alone among men knows what true humility means. His reach forever exceeds his grasp. He can never be satisfied with his work. He knows when he has done well, but he knows he has never attained his dream. He knows he never can. #Quote by Rheta Childe Dorr

#7. The theory [before the twentieth century] ... was that all the jobs in the world belonged by right to men, and that only men were by nature entitled to wages. If a woman earned money, outside domestic service, it was because some misfortune had deprived her of masculine protection. #Quote by Rheta Childe Dorr

#8. Count o'er the joys thine hours have seen, Count o'er thy days from anguish free, And know, whatever thou hast been, 'Tis something better not to be. [First published, Childe Harold, 1812 #Quote by George Gordon Byron

#9. I swore I would battle not only for myself but for freedom and opportunity for everything living that wore chains, especially sex chains. It that meant poverty for myself and my boy then poverty we should have to suffer. If it meant social ostracism, if it meant relinquishing the literary success that lay within my grasp, then let the success go. #Quote by Rheta Childe Dorr

#10. Feminism differs from reform of any kind, even franchise reform. Feminists, I should say, are not reformers at all, but ratherintellectual biologists and psychologists. #Quote by Rheta Childe Dorr

#11. The true impressionism is realism. So many people do not observe. #Quote by Childe Hassam

#12. I knew I wanted to be permanently self-supporting and I vaguely thought I might work somewhere in the realm of ideas. I felt that I had within me an undeveloped fount of ideas. I did not know exactly what my ideas were, but whatever they were I wanted to convert people to them. #Quote by Rheta Childe Dorr