Grey Nuns Building

Famous quotes containing the words grey, nuns and/or building:

    “While on that old grey stone I sat
    Under the old wind-broken tree,
    I knew that One is animate,
    Mankind inanimate phantasy.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “Both nuns and mothers worship images,
    But those the candles light are not as those
    That animate a mother’s reveries,
    But keep a marble or a bronze repose.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “The limits of prudence: one cannot jump out of a burning building gradually.”
    —Mason Cooley (b. 1927)