Laurie Lee Quotes (17 Quotes)

I don't know what idiocies drove me in those days, but they were naive, innocent idiocies in many ways.

I wanted to communicate what I had seen, so that others could see it.

That last winter was a tragic story and I got no personal honour out of it but I was a witness to it.

It was a world that I wanted to record because it was such a miracle visitation to me.

I expected to be shot at any moment and if they had done I would have understood, that they couldn't take risks with someone foolhardy or so unpredictable.

But our waking life, and our growing years, were for the most part spent in the kitchen, and until we married, or ran away, it was the common room we shared.

I have been sitting watching that ever since I came back, the continuous variations of light and shadow.

The sun sets down at the end of the valley over the Severn and there's this afterglow which catches those quarries and it just sits there glowing when the light is gone from everywhere else in the valley - it holds the light to the last drop.

I was reminding them of their lives and I think that was why it was read so much, but this was quite unintentional and unpredictable.

I crossed the Pyrenees in December, nearly got frozen to death in a blizzard and arrived carrying a violin, a camera and books.

We've heard some concerns, and we've been troubleshooting, We're satisfied. We think Express Scripts is a very good partner.

What she did was to open our eyes to details of country life such as teaching us names of wild flowers and getting us to draw and paint and learn poetry.

I remember trying to impress her by writing an essay about the Rocky Mountains and the bears and it was the first bad review I ever had - shameful

Such a morning it is when love leans through geranium windows and calls with a cockerel's tongue. When red-haired girls scamper like roses over the rain-green grass, and the sun drips honey.

We were living in the Slad Road when my father left us. I was about three.

I was last among the long grass and I'd never seen long grass and never been on my own and out of sight of humans before.

The house is still down the bank, still very unchanged, except that there are new people, nice people living there.