“I do love the beginning of the summer hols,' said Julian. They always seem to stretch out ahead for ages and ages.'
'They go so nice and slowly at first,' said Anne, his little sister. 'Then they start to gallop.”
Source: Five Go Off in a Caravan
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author 1897–1968Related quotes
The Almost Perfect State (1921)
Context: Of middle age the best that can be said is that a middle aged person has likely learned how to have a little fun in spite of his troubles.
It is to old age that we look for reimbursement, the most of us. And most of us look in vain. For the most of us have been wrenched and racked, in one way or another, until old age is the most trying time of all.
In the Almost Perfect State every person shall have at least ten years before he dies of easy, carefree, happy living... things will be so arranged economically that this will be possible for each individual.
“I have never been in love before," Julian said. "You're my first-and you'll be my only.”
Source: The Hunter
“I was born to be your rival,' she [Anne] said simply. 'And you mine. We're sisters, aren't we?”
Source: The Other Boleyn Girl
“I have always said about Tony [Benn] that he immatures with age.”
Interview with The Times (7 April 1981), p. 12.
Post-Prime Ministerial
“Anne, my sister Anne, do you see nothing coming?”
"I see nothing but the sun that makes everything dusty, and the grass that grows green."
Tales of Mother Goose, 1727, "Bluebeard"