Narrow Black

Famous quotes containing the words narrow and/or black:

“Each in his narrow cell for ever laid,
The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.”
—Thomas Gray (1716–1771)

“Christianity as an organized religion has not always had a harmonious relationship with the family. Unlike Judaism, it kept almost no rituals that took place in private homes. The esteem that monasticism and priestly celibacy enjoyed implied a denigration of marriage and parenthood.”
—Beatrice Gottlieb, U.S. historian. The Family in the Western World from the Black Death to the Industrial Age, ch. 12, Oxford University Press (1993)