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Rounds Quotes - Page 2

I say that we are wound With mercy round and round As if with air.

Gerard Manley Hopkins (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins (Illustrated)”, p.37, Delphi Classics

Radio is the playground of coincidence.

Sarah Vowell (2013). “Radio On: A Listener's Diary”, p.18, St. Martin's Griffin

A weak background is a deadly thing.

Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

What You Lose on the Swings You Make Up on the Merry-Go-Round.

George V. Higgins (2012). “Defending Billy Ryan”, p.78, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

It is nationalism which engenders nations, and not the other way round.

Ernest Gellner, John Breuilly (2008). “Nations and Nationalism”, p.54, Cornell University Press

One of the strengths I derive from my class background is that I am accustomed to contempt.

Dorothy Allison (2013). “Skin: Talking about Sex, Class, and Literature”, p.17, Open Road Media