"There is something inexpressibly sad in the thought……" — Alice Morse Earle
"There is something inexpressibly sad in the thought of the children who crossed the ocean with the Pilgrims and the fathers of Jamestown, New Amsterdam, and Boston, and the infancy of those born in the first years of colonial life in this strange new world."
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Alice Morse Earle
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30 Quotes by Alice Morse Earle
Alice Morse Earle has 30 quotes on this site.
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Half the interest of a garden is the constant exercise of the imagination.
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Half the interest of a garden is the constant exercise of the imagination. You are always living three, or indeed…
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The grape Hyacinth is the favorite spring flower of my garden - but no! I though a minute ago the…
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Every day may not be good... but there's something good in every day
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The clock is running. Make the most of today. Time waits for no man. Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a…
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We should have scant notion of the gardens of these New England colonists in the seventeenth century were it not…
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Sunken gardens should be laid out under the supervision of an intelligent landscape architect; and even then should have a…
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We have very pretty Dutch gardens, so called, in America, but their chief claim to being Dutch is that they…
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Salem houses present to you a serene and dignified front, gracious yet reserved, not thrusting forward their choicest treasures to…
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It is heartrending to read the entries in many an old family Bible - the records of suffering, distress, and…
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In the seventeenth century, the science of medicine had not wholly cut asunder from astrology and necromancy; and the trusting…
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The seventeenth-century baby slept, as his nineteenth-century descendant does, in a cradle. Nothing could be prettier than the old cradles…
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Amsterdam has more than 150 canals and 1,250 bridges, but it never seems crowded, nor bent and bitter from fleecing…
— Julie Burchill
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And call me a pig, but isn't it brilliantly refreshing how early the Dutch eat dinner? When they're still laying…
— Julie Burchill
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I just got back from Switzerland, which I've never been to. I went to Switzerland and Amsterdam.
— Linda Cardellini
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My man slangs rocks like up the block, 143RD and Amsterdam by the smoke shop
— Redman
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Then came the second Amsterdam discovery, although the principle was known elsewhere. Bank deposits...did not need to be left idly…
— John Kenneth Galbraith
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We are men on a budget. I mean, why go all the way to Amsterdam when you can just go…
— Anthony Langston
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Quiet, moving, masterfully crafted. Such are the nine stories in Venus in the Afternoon. Tehila Lieberman writes with precision, restraint,…
— Unknown Author
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Amsterdam was a great surprise to me. I had always thought of Venice as the city of canals; it had…
— James Weldon Johnson
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I know that I am very popular in Holland, in fact I have visited Amsterdam several times to publicize my…
— Jackie Collins
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The Annex is an ideal place to hide in. It may be damp and lopsided, but there's probably not a…
— Anne Frank
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I still have agents in France, Los Angeles and Amsterdam who call and suggest parts. I'd love to keep on…
— Sylvia Kristel
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In Amsterdam, the river and canals have been central to city life for the last four centuries,
— Janet Echelman
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