All Alice Morse Earle Quotes
- Half the interest of a garden is the constant exercise of the imagination. Constant
- Half the interest of a garden is the constant exercise of the imagination. You are always living three, or indeed six, months hence. I believe… Always Living
- The grape Hyacinth is the favorite spring flower of my garden - but no! I though a minute ago the Scilla was! and what place… Ago
- Every day may not be good... but there's something good in every day Attitude
- The clock is running. Make the most of today. Time waits for no man. Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift.… Called
- We should have scant notion of the gardens of these New England colonists in the seventeenth century were it not for a cheerful traveller named… Absence
- Sunken gardens should be laid out under the supervision of an intelligent landscape architect; and even then should have a reason for being sunken other… Architect
- We have very pretty Dutch gardens, so called, in America, but their chief claim to being Dutch is that they are set with bulbs, and… America
- Salem houses present to you a serene and dignified front, gracious yet reserved, not thrusting forward their choicest treasures to the eyes of passing strangers;… Beauty
- 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,… Amsterdam
- It is heartrending to read the entries in many an old family Bible - the records of suffering, distress, and blasted hopes. Bible
- In the seventeenth century, the science of medicine had not wholly cut asunder from astrology and necromancy; and the trusting Christian still believed in some… Astrology
- The seventeenth-century baby slept, as his nineteenth-century descendant does, in a cradle. Nothing could be prettier than the old cradles that have survived successive years… Babies
- When the first settlers landed on American shores, the difficulties in finding or making shelter must have seemed ironical as well as almost unbearable. Almost Unbearable
- By the year 1670, wooden chimneys and log houses of the Plymouth and Bay colonies were replaced by more sightly houses of two stories, which… Attic
- Few of the early houses in New England were painted, or colored, as it was called, either without or within. Painters do not appear in… Any
- The first and most natural way of lighting the houses of the American colonists, both in the North and South, was by the pine-knots of… American
- The study of tavern history often brings to light much evidence of sad domestic changes. Many a cherished and beautiful home, rich in annals of… Annals
- The landlord of colonial days may not have been the greatest man in town, but he was certainly the best-known, often the most popular, and… Been
- Every sea-captain who sailed to the West Indies was expected to bring home a turtle on the return voyage for a feast to his expectant… Bring