Laurence Binyon quotes

“Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.”
-- Laurence Binyon

Source : "For the Fallen" l. 13 (1914)

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“They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old. Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning we will remember them.”
-- Laurence Binyon

Source : "For the Fallen" l. 13 (1914)

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“With proud thanksgiving, a mother for her children, England mourns for her dead across the sea.”
-- Laurence Binyon

Source : The Times 21 Sept. 1914, "For the Fallen"

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“We are living in a time of trouble and bewilderment, in a time when none of us can foresee or foretell the future. But surely it is in times like these, when so much that we cherish is threatened or in jeopardy, that we are impelled all the more to strengthen our inner resources, to turn to the things that have no news value because they will be the same to-morrow that they were to-day and yesterday — the things that last, the things that the wisest, the most farseeing of our race and kind have been inspired to utter in forms that can inspire ourselves in turn.”
-- Laurence Binyon

Source : Lecture on opening a new library at Sutton High School on September 24, 1938. "Books As Source Of Inner Strength", The Times, p. 19, September 26, 1938.

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“We too should make ourselves empty, that the great soul of the universe may fill us with its breath.”
-- Laurence Binyon

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“We are living in a time of trouble and bewilderment, in a time when none of us can foresee or foretell the future.”
-- Laurence Binyon

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“Two children, all alone and no one by, Holding their tattered frocks, thro'an airy maze Of motion lightly threaded with nimble feet Dance sedately; face to face they gaze, Their eyes shining, grave with a perfect pleasure.”
-- Laurence Binyon

Source : Laurence Binyon (1926). “Laurence Binyon”

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“the little street Into its gloom retires, secluded and shy.”
-- Laurence Binyon

Source : Laurence Binyon (1927). “A Laurence Binyon Anthology”

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“I always thought the name of Utah’s major newspaper was some sort of weird misspelling of the word “desert.” But no, Deseret is the “land of the honeybee,” according to the Book of Mormon. I guess I should have figured they would have caught a typo in the masthead after 154 years.”

Source : A. J. Jacobs (2004). “The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World”, p.56, Simon and Schuster

“God is not looking for extraordinary characters as His instruments, but He is looking for humble instruments through whom He can be honored throughout the ages.”

“When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.”

“I read my first book on Woodrow Wilson at age 15, and I was hooked.”

“I do not believe that there are any such things as gods and goddesses, for exactly the same reasons as I do not believe there are fairies, goblins or sprites, and these reasons should be obvious to anyone over the age of ten.”

“Unchecked, the dominating influences of money and of barren intellectualism would reduce the life of emotions to freezing point. And, unable to grasp the holier benefits of religion, the mysticism of the heart reacts in the art-intoxication. .... In this cold, irreligious and practical age the warmth of this devotion to art has kept alive many higher aspirations of our soul, which otherwise might readily have died, as they did in the middle of the last century.”

“I know not how to aid you, save in the assurance of one of mature age, and much severe experience, that you can not fail, if you resolutely determine, that you will not.”

“Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.”

Source : "For the Fallen" l. 13 (1914)

“Hope is a song in a weary throat.”

Source : Pauli Murray (1970). “Dark testament: and other poems”

“Muscle-work can only make one weary-it takes brain-work to create true exhaustion.”

Source : Jefferson Smith (2011). “Strange Places”, p.192, Indie Ink Publishing