Alex Banvard > Alex's Quotes

“Will you come with me to the mountains? It will hurt at first, until your feet are hardened. Reality is harsh to the feet of shadows. But will you come?”
― C.S. Lewis

“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.”
― Albert Einstein

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

“Light a candle instead of cursing the darkness.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt, This is My Story

“We work in the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.”
― Henry James, The Middle Years

“Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent”
― Victor Hugo

“It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“The proper definition of a man is an animal that writes letters.”
― Lewis Carroll