"we are so little, so ignorant, so feeble an infant race crawling on a planet between immensities we haven't even begun to understand, that really we have no grounds for either congratulation or despair."

--

Source : Winifred Holtby (1937). “Pavements at Anderby: tales of "South riding" and other regions by Winifred Holtby”

Winifred Holtby

#Congratulations Quotes #Race Quotes #Ignorant Quotes

“I don't have a mentor in the strict definition. I take as much advice and inspiration as I can from the people I am close to.”
“The skirts of the gods Drag in our mud. We feel the touch And take it to be a kiss.”
“We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.”
“He'd always been fascinated by her, drawn to her the way curious people are always drawn to things they don't understand.”
“I am still full of ambition.”
“For me, even just being English was a whole sort of experience in as much as I'm Australian.”
“The great lie is that it is civilization. It's not civilized. It has been literally the most blood thirsty brutalizing system ever imposed upon this planet. That is not civilization. That's the great lie, is that it represents civilization.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“When you get married you forget about kissing other women.”

You may also like:

Andrew Davies
Writer
Anna Maxwell Martin
Actress
E. M. Delafield
Author
John Jakes
Writer
Marghanita Laski
Journalist
Sally Jenkins
Columnist
Shirley Williams
British Politician
Vera Brittain
Writer
Virginia Woolf
Writer