Founders Led

Famous quotes containing the words founders and/or led:

    It was no wonder that her sons stood tall and straight. She was a rich mine of life, like the founders of early races.
    Willa Cather (1873–1947)

    Then, bringing me the joy we feel when wee see a work by our favorite painter which differs from any other that we know, or if we are led before a painting of which we have until then only seen a pencil sketch, if a musical piece heard only on the piano appears before us clothed in the colors of the orchestra, my grandfather called me the [hawthorn] hedge at Tansonville, saying, “You who are so fond of hawthorns, look at this pink thorn, isn’t it lovely?”
    Marcel Proust (1871–1922)