58 Quotes by Laurie Lee

We were as merciless and cruel as most primitives are. But we learnt at that school the private nature of cruelty; and our inborn hatred for freaks and outcasts was tempered by meeting them daily.

The Welsh are not like any other people in Britain, and they know how separate they are. They are the Celts, the tough little wine-dark race who were the original possessors of the island, who never mixed with the invaders coming later from the east, but were slowly driven into the western mountains.

But if you survived melancholia and rotting lungs it was possible to live long in this valley.

But our waking life, and our growing years, were for the most part spent in the kitchen, and until we married, or ran away, it was the common room we shared.

That last winter was a tragic story and I got no personal honour out of it but I was a witness to it.

I don't know what idiocies drove me in those days, but they were naive, innocent idiocies in many ways.

I have been sitting watching that ever since I came back, the continuous variations of light and shadow.

What she did was to open our eyes to details of country life such as teaching us names of wild flowers and getting us to draw and paint and learn poetry.

I wanted to communicate what I had seen, so that others could see it.