Eye Quote by Nan Fairbrother

Most of us are experts at solving other people's problems, but we generally solve them in terms of our own and the advice we…

— Nan Fairbrother

the large black slugs ... come out at dusk. Enormous slugs. As big as crocodiles. So huge we need a gun to shoot them.…

— Nan Fairbrother

Summer weather, like being in love,is a philosopher's stone which turns our ordinary days to gold. But not the whole day ... For it…

— Nan Fairbrother

children are not undeveloped versions of adult people: they are a different race of beings: they are children.

— Nan Fairbrother

The sorrows of children are profound and unsuspected.

— Nan Fairbrother

the urgent crowds out the essential.

— Nan Fairbrother

leisure is an attitude of mind, not simply remission of work.

— Nan Fairbrother

... garden books are quite unconscious that besides telling us how to turn our patch of earth into a garden, they are also expressing…

— Nan Fairbrother

We envy people we love for being always in their own loved company.

— Nan Fairbrother

It is always one of the tragedies of any relationship, even between people sensitive to each other's moods, that the moments of emotion so…

— Nan Fairbrother

As every real estate agent knows, a poor house in good surroundings will sell for a higher price than a better house in poor…

— Nan Fairbrother

I have reached the stage now where luxury is not in fine possessions but in carefree possessions, and the greatest luxury of all would…

— Nan Fairbrother