Remaining Elemental Spirits

Famous quotes containing the words remaining, elemental and/or spirits:

    “Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one’s beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses.”
    —James Baldwin (1924–1987)

    “Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point.”
    —Phyllis McGinley (1905–1978)

    “My spirits infallibly rise in proportion to the outward dreariness. Give me the ocean, the desert, or the wilderness!”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)