Grey Nuns Building

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

    “Sir, a man who cannot get to heaven in a green coat, will not find his way thither the sooner in a grey one.”
    —Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)

    “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)

    “Notice how he has numbered the blue veins
    in my breast. Moreover there are ten freckles.
    Now he goes left. Now he goes right.
    He is building a city, a city of flesh.
    He’s an industrialist.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)