Sustaining Grace

Famous quotes containing the words sustaining and/or grace:

“I mourn the safe and motherly old middle-class queen, who held the nation warm under the fold of her big, hideous Scotch-plaid shawl and whose duration had been so extraordinarily convenient and beneficent. I felt her death much more than I should have expected; she was a sustaining symbol—and the wild waters are upon us now.”
—Henry James (1843–1916)

“Any artist should be grateful for a naïve grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.”
—Saul Bellow (b. 1915)