quotes about Gideon Cross

“The grape Hyacinth is the favorite spring flower of my garden - but no! I though a minute ago the Scilla was! and what place has the Violet? the Flower de Luce? I cannot decide, but this I know - it is some blue flower.”

Source : Alice Morse Earle (2014). “Old Time Gardens, Newly Set Forth”, p.257, Cambridge University Press

“Three things I have longed to see ... The sea serpent, a white rhinoceros, and an unselfish man.”

“I take no pride in my artistic talents; they are God-given and I see absolutely no reason to become puffed up over something that one has received.”

“It suddenly occurred to me that every move on the chessboard is old and has been played by somebody at some time. Maybe our own history has been played out by somebody at some time, and we just move our pieces about in the same moves to strike in the same way as people have always done.”

“When you've got the money, you spend it. When you've spent it all, let someone else get going and spend theirs.”

“It is scary for an actor when you get hired as a lead. No matter what the plot is, it is your job to do something interesting enough to make them want to get inside the lead character's head.”

“Germany calling! Germany Calling!”

Source : Habitual introduction to propaganda broadcasts to Britain during the Second World War

“Modern man is a hard-working human...”

Source : "Fictional character: Dr. Alton/Narrator". "Glen or Glenda", 1953.

“I'm not gangly; I'm very coordinated. I do have a bit of a baby face. But I guess that just means I'll be working longer.”

“I come from a family of very strong women, women who have endured very tough lives in hopes of a better one for their children.”

Source : "TIFF Women Directors: Meet Afia Nathaniel – ‘Dukhtar’". Interview with Laura Berger, www.indiewire.com. September 4, 2014.