Charlotte Gray > Quotes

“You can kid the world, but not your sister.”
― Charlotte Gray

“After scolding one's cat one looks into its face and is seized by the ugly suspicion that it understood every word. And has filed it for reference.”
― Charlotte Gray

“Children and mothers never truly part--Bound in the beating of each other's hearts.”
― Charlotte Gray

“Human beings who leave behind them no great achievements, but only a series of small kindnesses, have not had wasted lives”
― Charlotte Gray

“Friendships fail some years,
blight twists the leaves and the crop is bitter.
Frost bites or sudden fire devours:
but the root lies sound and waits for better weather or a storm of sleet to scour the branches.
Then we shall see another spring:
a flare of green flame and flowers burning to fruit along the boughs.”
― Charlotte Gray

“A man's own judgement should be the final appeal in all that relates to himself. Many men do this or that because someone else thought it right.”
― Charlotte Gray, Alexander Graham Bell: The Reluctant Genius and His Passion for Invention

“However, show-and-tell sessions at Beinn Bhreagh with his grandchildren inspired him to design—and publicize in the Volta Review (published by his Volta Institute)—simple experiments for children. “If their curiosity and interest can be aroused,” he wrote, “they will speculate for themselves as to the causes of the phenomena observed. This exercise of the mind is just what children need. It develops their reasoning powers and arouses their interest.”
― Charlotte Gray, Reluctant Genius: Alexander Graham Bell and the Passion for Invention

“desultory”
― Charlotte Gray, Reluctant Genius: Alexander Graham Bell and the Passion for Invention