Cloister Quotes
10 quotes by 10 authors
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In every seed to breathe a flower, In every drop of dew To reverence a cloister star Within the distant blue; To wait the promise…
— John B. Tabb
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Those seven years in the cloister were the key to my life.
— Abbe Pierre
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In America a woman loses her independence for ever in the bonds of matrimony. While there is less constraint on girls there than anywhere else,…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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Melrose is the finest remaining specimen of Gothic architecture in Scotland. Some of the sculptured flowers in the cloister arches are remarkably beautiful and delicate,…
— Bayard Taylor
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Some men of a secluded and studious life, have sent forth from their closet or their cloister, rays of intellectual light that have agitated courts,…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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There is this cave In the air behind my body That nobody is going to touch: A cloister, a silence Closing around a blossom of…
— James Wright
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I did not believe that a Cause which stood for a beautiful ideal, for anarchism, for release and freedom from convention and prejudice, should demand…
— Emma Goldman
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Either to die the death or to abjure For ever the society of men. Therefore, fair Hermia, question your desires; Know of your youth, examine…
— William Shakespeare
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Scientists cloister themselves away from the rest of society, happy just to receive their next grant. They lose their connection to a purpose.
— Neil Turok
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I think of Pope Gregory the Great. He wanted the cloister. He wanted to pray and study, and yet he was thrust into this administrative…
— Richard Foster
Who Wrote These Cloister Quotes
10 authors contributed a total of 10 Cloister Quotes as follows: