#

My mother was 45 when she had me, so when I was in high school my parents were the same age as my friends' grandparents. ↗

— Jack White

#friends #grandparents #had #high #high school

If there is anything that keeps the mind open to angel visits, and repels the ministry of ill, it is human love. ↗

— Nathaniel Parker Willis

#anything #human #human love #ill #keeps

I met Drew Barrymore in New York and she said she liked the band. That was really cool. I grew up on her. ↗

— Meg White

#barrymore #cool #drew #drew barrymore #grew

In the 18th century, James Hargreaves invented the Spinning Jenny, and Richard Arkwright pioneered the water-propelled spinning frame which led to the mass production of cotton. This was truly revolutionary. The cotton manufacturers created a whole new class of people - the urban proletariat. The structure of society itself would never be the same. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#century #class #cotton #created #frame

At any rate, girls are differently situated. Having no need of deep scientific knowledge, their education is confined more to the ordinary things of the world, the study of the fine arts, and of the manners and dispositions of people. ↗

— William John Wills

#arts #confined #deep #differently #dispositions

Of all liars the most arrogant are biographers: those who would have us believe, having surveyed a few boxes full of letters, diaries, bank statements and photographs, that they can play at the recording angel and tell the whole truth about another human life. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#angel #another #arrogant #bank #believe

I am shy to admit that I have followed the advice given all those years ago by a wise archbishop to a bewildered young man: that moments of unbelief 'don't matter,' that if you return to a practice of the faith, faith will return. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#advice #ago #am #archbishop #bewildered

I believe the collapse of the House of Windsor is tied in with the collapse of the Church of England. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#church #collapse #england #house #i

I do not find it easy to articulate thoughts about religion. I remain the sort of person who turns off 'Thought for the Day' when it comes on the radio. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#articulate #comes #day #easy #find

In fact I enjoyed every minute of my life at King's, especially the discovery of French and German literature. ↗

— Patrick White

#enjoyed #especially #every #fact #french