Letter VIII
The Screwtape Letters (1942)
“The mother… swinging the children by pulling on a length of string, while at the same time she kept and eye on them with that protective watchfulness, half animal, half angelic, which is the quality of motherhood.”
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Victor Hugo 308
French poet, novelist, and dramatist 1802–1885Related quotes
“O lyric Love, half angel and half bird
And all a wonder and a wild desire”
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The Ring and the Book (1868-69)
Context: O lyric Love, half angel and half bird
And all a wonder and a wild desire, —
Boldest of hearts that ever braved the sun,
Took sanctuary within the holier blue,
And sang a kindred soul out to his face, —
Yet human at the red-ripe of the heart—
When the first summons from the darkling earth
Reached thee amid thy chambers, blanched their blue,
And bared them of the glory — to drop down,
To toil for man, to suffer or to die, —
This is the same voice: can thy soul know change?
Hail then, and hearken from the realms of help!
Lewis Carroll
(1832–1898) English writer, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer
Source: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass
Richard Dawkins
(1941) English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author
River out of Eden (1995)
“The danger of motherhood. you relive your early self, through the eyes of your mother.”
Source: The Gravedigger's Daughter
Kent Hovind
(1953) American young Earth creationist
Creation seminars (2003-2005), The dangers of evolution
“Half the American people never read a newspaper. Half never vote for President — the same half?”
Gore Vidal
(1925–2012) American writer
Sometimes quoted as: Half of the American people never read a newspaper. Half never voted for president. One hopes it is the same half.
[Bill, Maxwell, http://www.sptimes.com/2002/07/07/Columns/In_gloomy_times__let_.shtml, In gloomy times, let's try to find a sense of humor, St. Petersberg Times, 2002-07-07, 2008-10-04]
Variant: Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
Source: 1990s, Screening History (1992), Ch. 1: The Prince and the Pauper, p. 5
