Widening

Famous quotes containing the word widening:

    “Jane Addams, founder of Hull House, once asked, “How shall we respond to the dreams of youth?” It is a dazzling and elegant question, a question that demands an answer—a range of answers, really, spiraling outward in widening circles.”
    —William Ayers, U.S. author. To Teach: The Journey of a Teacher, ch. 7 (1993)

    “We visualized her less as a woman at work than as a light widening as it brightened.”
    —Elizabeth Bowen (1899–1973)

    “Turning and turning in the widening gyre
    The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
    Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
    Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)