Solemn High Mass

Famous quotes containing the words solemn, high and/or mass:

    “With all its solemn imagery, its rocks,
    Its woods, and that uncertain heaven, received
    Into the bosom of the steady lake.”
    —William Wordsworth (1770–1850)

    “Research shows clearly that parents who have modeled nurturant, reassuring responses to infants’ fears and distress by soothing words and stroking gentleness have toddlers who already can stroke a crying child’s hair. Toddlers whose special adults model kindliness will even pick up a cookie dropped from a peer’s high chair and return it to the crying peer rather than eat it themselves!”
    —Alice Sterling Honig (20th century)

    “The mass believes that it has the right to impose and to give force of law to notions born in the café.”
    —José Ortega Y Gasset (1883–1955)