Charlotte Alington Barnard quotes

“I cannot sing the old songs, Or dream those dreams again...”
-- Charlotte Alington Barnard

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“I cannot sing the old songs, I sang long years ago, For heart and voice would fail me, And foolish tears would flow.”
-- Charlotte Alington Barnard

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“What good it does one to have a hearty, uncontrollable fit of laughter.”
-- Charlotte Alington Barnard

Source : Charlotte Alington Barnard (1877). “Thoughts, verses, and songs, by Claribel”

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“Flowers produce an effect on me which can only be produced in an equal degree by music.”
-- Charlotte Alington Barnard

Source : Charlotte Alington Barnard (1877). “Thoughts, verses, and songs, by Claribel”

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“Very few worries can stand against the influence of a good long walk ... How many petty annoyances have I thus walked away!”
-- Charlotte Alington Barnard

Source : Charlotte Alington Barnard (1877). “Thoughts, verses, and songs, by Claribel”

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“All play aspires to the condition of paradise...through play in all its forms...we hope to achieve a state that our larger Greco-Roman, Judeo- Christian culture has always known was lost. Where it exists, we do not know, although we always have envisioned it as a garden...always as removed, as an enclosed green place...Paradise is an ancient dream...It is a dream of ourselves as better than we are, back to what we were.”

“Be fanatics. When it comes to being and doing and dreaming the best, be maniacs.”

“Once upon a time, when men and women hurtled through the air on metal wings, when they wore webbed feet and walked on the bottom of the sea, learning the speech of whales and the songs of the dolphins, when pearly-fleshed and jewelled apparitions of Texan herdsmen and houris shimmered in the dusk on Nicaraguan hillsides, when folk in Norway and Tasmania in dead of winter could dream of fresh strawberries, dates, guavas and passion fruits and find them spread next morning on their tables, there was a woman who was largely irrelevant, and therefore happy.”

Source : FaceBook post by A.S. Byatt from Aug 27, 2011

“Was this the big one or was this the small tremor, the warning? Does it get better - does the sensation of being in a dream underwater go away?”

Source : A.M. Homes (2012). “May We Be Forgiven”, p.114, Granta Books

“It's every actor's dream to work in a hit show on Broadway and also shoot a television show.”

“I dont really take anything from home except some U.S. magazines and books and definitely some U.S. music. There are just certain songs that remind me of home.”

“Often we want people to pray for us and help us, but we always defeat our object when we look too much to them and lean upon them. The true secret of union is for both to look upon God, and in the act of looking past themselves to Him they are unconsciously united.”

“Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.”

“Any city may have one period of magnificence, like Boston or New Orleans or San Francisco, but it takes a real one to keep renewing itself until the past is perennially forgotten.”

“What we have done in the past is not sufficient now to prepare our youth.”