Quotes from Charlotte Gray

I will protect you until you are grown and then I will let you fly free, but loving you, that is for always.

Children and mothers never truly part--Bound in the beating of each other's hearts.

After scolding one's cat one looks into its face and is seized by the ugly suspicion that it understood every word. And has filed it for reference.

Human beings who leave behind them no great achievements, but only a series of small kindnesses, have not had wasted lives

Success is not fame or money or the power to bewitch. it is to have created something valuable from your own individuality and skill a garden, an embroidery, a painting, a cake, a life.

With a sister, one can never fear that success will go to one's head.

People meeting for the first time suddenly relax if they find they both have cats. And plunge into anecdote.

Music is the voice of all humanity, of whatever time or place. In its presence, we are one.

Small child once you were a hope, a dream. Now you are a reality. Changing all that is to come. A love to hold our hearts forever.

People meeting for the first time suddenly relax if they find they both have cats. And plunge into anecdote.

We may look old and wise to the outside world. But to each other, we are still in junior school.

After scolding one's cat one looks into its face and is seized by the ugly suspicion that it understood every word. And has filed it for reference.

Children and mothers never truly part--Bound in the beating of each other's hearts.

Human beings who leave behind them no great achievements, but only a series of small kindnesses, have not had wasted lives

Friendships fail some years, blight twists the leaves and the crop is bitter. Frost bites or sudden fire devours: but the root lies sound and waits for better weather or a storm of sleet to scour the branches. Then we shall see another spring: a flare of green flame and flowers burning to fruit along the boughs.

A man's own judgement should be the final appeal in all that relates to himself. Many men do this or that because someone else thought it right.

However, show-and-tell sessions at Beinn Bhreagh with his grandchildren inspired him to design—and publicize in the Volta Review (published by his Volta Institute)—simple experiments for children. "If their curiosity and interest can be aroused," he wrote, "they will speculate for themselves as to the causes of the phenomena observed. This exercise of the mind is just what children need. It develops their reasoning powers and arouses their interest.

Becoming a mother makes you the mother of all children. From now on each wounded, abandoned, frightened child is yours. You live in the suffering mothers of every race and creed and weep with them. You long to comfort all who are desolate.

A dog desires affection more than its dinner. Well - almost.