Grey Nuns Building

Famous quotes containing the words grey, nuns and/or building:

    “There is grey in your hair.
    Young men no longer suddenly catch their breath
    When you are passing;
    But maybe some old gaffer mutters a blessing
    Because it was your prayer
    Recovered him upon the bed of death.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “Both nuns and mothers worship images,
    But those the candles light are not as those
    That animate a mother’s reveries,
    But keep a marble or a bronze repose.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “Travelling is the ruin of all happiness! There’s no looking at a building here after seeing Italy.”
    —Fanny Burney (1752–1840)