Laurie Lee Quotes


"We were living in the Slad Road when my father left us. I was about three."
- Laurie Lee
(Related: Father, Living, Road)

"I have been sitting watching that ever since I came back, the continuous variations of light and shadow."
- Laurie Lee
(Related: Light, Shadow)

"That last winter was a tragic story and I got no personal honour out of it but I was a witness to it."
- Laurie Lee
(Related: Winter)

"I wanted to communicate what I had seen, so that others could see it."
- Laurie Lee
"I expected to be shot at any moment and if they had done I would have understood, that they couldn't take risks with someone foolhardy or so unpredictable."
- Laurie Lee
"I don't know what idiocies drove me in those days, but they were naive, innocent idiocies in many ways."
- Laurie Lee
"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."
- Laurie Lee
(Related: Life, Kitchen, Waking, Years)

"It was a world that I wanted to record because it was such a miracle visitation to me."
- Laurie Lee
(Related: World)