Quote by

Gradually the magic of the island [Corfu] settled over us as gently and clingingly as pollen.

Gradually the magic of the island [Corfu] settled over us as gently and clingingly as pollen.
– Gerald Durrell

Related Quotes:

  1. My childhood in Corfu shaped my life. If I had the craft of Merlin, I would give every child the gift of my childhood. – Gerald Durrell
  2. Overflowing with the milk of human kindness, the family had invited everyone they could think of, including people they cordially disliked. – Gerald Durrell
  3. Every island to a child is a treasure island. – PD James
  4. What is the good of being an island, if you are not a volcanic island? – Wyndham Lewis
  5. Can you see a serene island in the middle of a stormy ocean? And the wise man is that calm island! – Mehmet Murat ildan
  6. Till now, madness has been thought a small island in an ocean of sanity. I am beginning to suspect that it is not an island at all but a continent. – Machado de Assis
  7. Till now, madness has been thought a small island in an ocean of sanity. I am beginning to suspect that it is not an island at all but a continent. – Machado de Assis
  8. Magic is only unexplained science. Science is explained magic. When I study science, I study magic. When I study magic, I study science. – C JoyBell C
  9. Know your magic, trust your magic, use your magic and know that you are a manifestation of life’s magic. – Rasheed Ogunlaru
  10. Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind. – James Russell Lowell
  11. Discontented women are like pressure cookers. The steam rises and one day they just reach boiling point. – Bella Pollen
  12. A flower’s structure leads a bee toward having pollen adhere to its body . . . we don’t know of any such reason why beautiful places attract humans. – David Rains Wallace
  13. Love is the bee that carries the pollen from one heart to another. – Slash Coleman
  14. People floating like pollen in search of more fertile soil. – Andrew Crofts
  15. Collaboration is the essence of life. The wind, bees and flowers work together, to spread the pollen. – Amit Ray
  16. Children expect their mothers to love them, no matter what. Those who don’t get this tend to feel cheated the rest of their lives. – Bella Pollen
  17. Just out of sight around a bend in the river there’s always a small island full of magic and mystery just waiting for you. – Neil Leckman
  18. I don’t want realism. I want magic. I live magic. I am magic. – Oksana Rus
  19. People only see in us the contemptible skirt-fever which rules our actions but completely miss the beauty-hunger underlying it. – Lawrence Durrell
  20. Art like life is an open secret. – Lawrence Durrell
  21. Each of our five senses contains an art. – Lawrence Durrell
  22. I don’t believe one reads to escape reality. A person reads to confirm a reality he knows is there, but which he has not experienced. – Lawrence Durrell
  23. … history – the lamp which illumines national character… – Lawrence Durrell
  24. Music is only love looking for words. – Lawrence Durrell
  25. How grudging memory is, and how bitterly she clutches the raw material of her daily work. – Lawrence Durrell
  26. Poverty is a great cutter-off and riches a great shutter-off. – Lawrence Durrell
  27. Does not everything depend on our interpretation of the silence around us? – Lawrence Durrell
  28. An idea is like a rare bird which cannot be seen. What one sees is the trembling of the branch it has just left. – Lawrence Durrell
  29. Presently the newly awakened psychology will gradually accomplish what pure religious devotion might have done: throw out Paul, and let Jesus in! – Jan Willem Kaiser
  30. We gradually accepted each other with our strengths and weaknesses. And now, I think, we have started to enjoy our differences more – Swati Kumar
  31. Being born-again Christian gives God the opportunity to gradually change your heart, mind, and thoughts – Sunday Adelaja
  32. The endless list of do’s and don’ts handed down while growing up, gradually and unconsciously distance us from the inner child. – Santosh Joshi
  33. When a protector leaves you, it looks like the end of the world. But you gradually learn to walk by your own feet – Bangambiki Habyarimana
  34. Where love is absent, violence is a glaring possibility. Introduce love into any situation and violence gradually evaporates. – Pooja Ruprell
  35. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer. – Rainer Maria Rilke
  36. Gradually you became my worst memories with a beautiful past – Sudeshna Dutta
  37. And then, gradually, the memory of her would fade away, I had forgotten the girl of my dream. – Marcel Proust
  38. The goal with hostages is to gradually lower expectations; in nonhostage crises, it’s to lower emotions. – Dave Cullen
  39. I gradually fell from grace; alas, you dove in headfirst! – Ahmed Mostafa
  40. Gradually, I am realizing who I’m. – Irfa Rahat

More Quotes

, , , ,