Laurie Lee Quotes

It was a world that I wanted to record because it was such a miracle visitation to me.

What she did was to open our eyes to details of country life such as teaching us names of wild flowers and getting us to draw and paint and learn poetry.

For the first time I was learning how much easier it was to leave than to stay behind and love.

Bees blew like cake-crumbs through the golden air, white butterflies like sugared wafers, and when it wasn't raining a diamond dust took over which veiled and yet magnified all things

But our waking life, and our growing years, were for the most part spent in the kitchen, and until we married, or ran away, it was the common room we shared.

Such a morning it is when love leans through geranium windows and calls with a cockerel's tongue. When red-haired girls scamper like roses over the rain-green grass, and the sun drips honey.

I was set down from the carrier's cart at the age of three; and there with a sense of bewilderment and terror my life in the village began.

All civilizations at some time have fallen into this total terror, when the mystery of life was a kind of panic only to be assuaged by the spilling of blood.

I wanted to communicate what I had seen, so that others could see it.

In London, Man is the most secret animal on earth.

Effie M. was a monster. Six foot high and as strong as a farm horse.No sooner had she decided that she wanted UncleTom than she knocked him off his bicycle and told him.

We were living in the Slad Road when my father left us. I was about three.

God's codpiece, you're very kind

She leaned out of the window slow and sleepy, and the light came through her nightdress like sand through a sieve.

It came out sparkling like liquid sky.

Dorothy scratched her dark head, yawning wide, and white feathers floated out of her hair.