Elizabeth Ray quotes

“I have always maintained that there is nothing wrong with nursery food now that we are grown up and can have a glass of wine with it.”
-- Elizabeth Ray

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“I entered beauty pageants in much the same spirit most people enter politics - with high ideals and ambitions. Similarly, I had to make some adjustments here and there along the way.”
-- Elizabeth Ray

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“Power ... was the coin of the Washington realm and, without it, you might as well file for bankruptcy.”
-- Elizabeth Ray

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“One of the penalties of being president of the United States is that you must subsist for four years without drinking anything except Californian wine.”

Source : Christopher Morley (1920). “Hide and Seek”

“It's true, some wine improves with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.”

“Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.”

“Bronze is the mirror of form, wine of the heart.”

“A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.”

“Don't call the world dirty because you forgot to clean your glasses.”

“The Holy Scripture is like a diamond: in the dark it is like a piece of glass, but as soon as the light strikes it the water begins to sparkle, and the scintillation of life greets us.”

Source : Abraham Kuyper (2007). “The Work of the Holy Spirit”, p.58, Cosimo, Inc.

“Diaries tell their little tales with a directness, a candor, conscious or unconscious, a closeness of outlook, which gratifies our sense of security. Reading them is like gazing through a small clear pane of glass. We may not see far and wide, but we see very distinctly that which comes within our field of vision.”

“For politics is not like the nursery; in politics obedience and support are the same.”

“Look for me in the nurseries of Heaven.”

Source : 'To a Snowflake' (1913)