Grey Nuns Building

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

    “Ae spring brought off her master hale,
    But left behind her ain grey tail:”
    —Robert Burns (1759–1796)

    “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 chemistry of dissatisfaction is as the chemistry of some marvelously potent tar. In it are the building stones of explosives, stimulants, poisons, opiates, perfumes and stenches.”
    —Eric Hoffer (1902–1983)