Quotes About Childe

#1. The dark tower. Childe Roland to the dark tower came.

Harper Lee

#2. 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

George Gordon Byron

#3. And finally there was The Goode Childe's Booke of Faerie Tales, so old that it belonged to an age when there were far more e's around.

Terry Pratchett

#4. Whilst that the childe is young, let him be instructed in vertue and lytterature.

John Lyly

#5. We make our heroes out of clay.

Chris Hedges

#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.

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.

Rheta Childe Dorr

#8. I believe the man who will go down in posterity is the man who paints his own time and the scenes of everyday life around him.

Childe Hassam

#9. A mind, if given only the best food never craves any other.

Rheta Childe Dorr

#10. The grandest and simplest things contain worlds within worlds. Seeing them is a matter of the right point of view, and your painter's eye is the special portal to such sights.

Richard Schmid

#11. I wrote a great deal of verse. In fact, every time I fell in love, which was rather often, I burst into the emotional sort of thing which is perennially salable.

Rheta Childe Dorr

#12. Fine. Okay. I killed her. But I didn't mean to. And I didn't kill her, kill her."
"Oh, I see. As long as you didn't kill her, kill her, then that's okay.

Karen Marie Moning

#13. Enjoy it while it lasts.

Famke Janssen

#14. 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.

Childe Hassam

#15. Feminism never harmed anybody unless it was some feminists. The danger is that the study and contemplation of "ourselves" may become so absorbing that it builds by slow degrees a high wall that shuts out the great world of thought.

Rheta Childe Dorr

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

Paul Hoffman

#17. Feminism differs from reform of any kind, even franchise reform. Feminists, I should say, are not reformers at all, but ratherintellectual biologists and psychologists.

Rheta Childe Dorr

#18. And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all.

Edgar Allan Poe

#19. The word 'impressionism' as applied to art has been abused, and in the general acceptance of the term has become perverted.

Childe Hassam

#20. There was never any question with me as to which I would choose, my boy or my work. I had to have both.

Rheta Childe Dorr

#21. These small shows were decidedly a success. The exhibitions were not too large to be seen easily. It was not an effort, as larger collections of pictures usually are.

Childe Hassam

#22. 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.

Rheta Childe Dorr

#23. Faith is the cure that heals all troubles. Without faith there is no hope and no love. Faith comes before hope, and before love. (Sheikh Muhammad ibn Zaidi bani Tihama)

Paul Torday

#24. Art, to me, is the interpretation of the impression which nature makes upon the eye and brain.

Childe Hassam

#25. Feminism, like Boston, is a state of mind. It is the state of mind of women who realize that their whole position in the social order is antiquated, as a woman cooking over an open fire with heavy iron pots would know that her entire housekeeping was out of date.

Rheta Childe Dorr

#26. The true impressionism is realism. So many people do not observe.

Childe Hassam