Quotes from book

Lark Rise

“The human eye loves to rest upon wide expanses of pure colour: the moors in the purple heyday of heather, miles of green downland, and the sea when it lies calm and blue and boundless, all delight it; but to some none of these, lovely though they all are, can give the same satisfaction of spirit as acres upon acres of golden corn. There is both beauty and bread and the seeds of bread for future generations.”

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Source: Lark Rise, ch. 15, Harvest Home

“Thank God for my good dinner. Thank Father and Mother. Amen' was the grace used in one family, and it certainly had the merit of giving credit where credit was due.”

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Source: Lark Rise, ch. 1, Poor People's Houses

“There was no Victoria in the school … That great name was sacred to the Queen and was not copied by her subjects to the extent imagined by period novelists of today.”

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Source: Lark Rise, ch. 11, School

“Other days, other ways; and, although they have now been greatly improved upon, the old country midwives did at least succeed in bringing into the world many generations of our forefathers, or where should we be now?”

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Source: Lark Rise, ch. 8, 'The Box'

“Poverty's no disgrace, but 'tis a great inconvenience' was a common saying among the Lark Rise people.”

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Source: Lark Rise, ch. 1, Poor People's Houses