Top 8 Quotes by Laurence Binyon

They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old. Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning we will remember them.

They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old. Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning we will remember them.

Laurence Binyon

Death, Morning, Years

"For the Fallen" l. 13 (1914)

We are living in a time of trouble and bewilderment, in a time when none of us can foresee or foretell the future. But surely it is in times like these, when so much that we cherish is threatened or in jeopardy, that we are impelled all the more to strengthen our inner resources, to turn to the things that have no news value because they will be the same to-morrow that they were to-day and yesterday — the things that last, the things that the wisest, the most farseeing of our race and kind have been inspired to utter in forms that can inspire ourselves in turn.

Laurence Binyon

Yesterday, Race, Times Like These

Lecture on opening a new library at Sutton High School on September 24, 1938. "Books As Source Of Inner Strength", The Times, p. 19, September 26, 1938.

We too should make ourselves empty, that the great soul of the universe may fill us with its breath.

Laurence Binyon

Peace, Soul, May

We are living in a time of trouble and bewilderment, in a time when none of us can foresee or foretell the future.

Laurence Binyon

Trouble, Times Of Trouble, Bewilderment

Lecture on opening a new library at Sutton High School on September 24, 1938. "Books As Source Of Inner Strength", The Times, p. 19, September 26, 1938.

Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.

Laurence Binyon

Years, Remembrance, Age

"For the Fallen" l. 13 (1914)

Two children, all alone and no one by, Holding their tattered frocks, thro'an airy maze Of motion lightly threaded with nimble feet Dance sedately; face to face they gaze, Their eyes shining, grave with a perfect pleasure.

Laurence Binyon

Children, Eye, Two

Laurence Binyon (1926). “Laurence Binyon”