Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life. Muriel Spark More Quotes by Muriel Spark More Quotes From Muriel Spark Give me a girl at an impressionable age and she is mine for life. Muriel Spark girlagegiving It's a whydunnit in q-sharp major and it has a message: never talk to the sort of girls that you wouldn't leave lying about in your drawing-room for the servants to pick up. Muriel Spark drawinggirllying There was altogether too much candor in married life; it was an indelicate modern idea, and frequently led to upsets in a household, if not divorce. Muriel Spark upsetdivorceideas It is difficult for people of advanced years to start remembering they must die. It is best to form the habit while young. Muriel Spark rememberpeopleyears I often wonder if we were all characters in one of God's dreams. Muriel Spark dreamwondercharacter Death, when it approaches, ought not to take one by surprise. It should be part of the full expectancy of life. Without an ever-present sense of death life is insipid. Muriel Spark surpriselife-isdeath People who quoted the Scriptures in criticism of others were terrible bores and usually they misapplied the text. One could prove anything against anyone from the Bible. Muriel Spark criticismbiblepeople Final perseverance is the doctrine that wins the eternal victory in small things as in great Muriel Spark perseverancevictorywinning No medicine man these days can afford to be without a portable tape recorder. Without the aid of this modern device, which may be easily concealed in the undergrowth of the jungle, the old tribal authority will rapidly become undermined by the mounting influenece of modern skepticism. Muriel Spark medicinetechnologymen I am a hoarder of two things: documents and trusted friends. Muriel Spark trusted-friendsfriendshiptwo All my pupils are the crme de la crme. Give me a girl of an impressionable age, and she is mine for life. Muriel Spark Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield. Muriel Spark One's prime is elusive. You little girls, when you grow up, must be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur. You must live it to the full. Muriel Spark To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. To Miss Mackay it is a putting in of something that is not there, and that is not what I call education. I call it intrusion. Muriel Spark somethingmesouleducation All my pupils are the creme de la creme. Give me a girl of an impressionable age, and she is mine for life. Muriel Spark megirlagelife When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality. Muriel Spark oldold-ageagelife I used to think it a pity that her mother rather than she had not thought of birth control. Muriel Spark controlthoughtthinkmother
