When we talk of leaving our childhood behind us, we might as well say that the river flowing onward to the sea had left the fountain behind.


A Commonplace Book of Thoughts (1854)

Anna Brownell Jameson Quotes

When we talk of leaving our childhood behind us, we might as well say that the river flowing onward to the sea had left the fountain behind.

When we talk of leaving our childhood behind us, we might as well say that the river flowing onward to the sea had left the fountain behind.

When we talk of leaving our childhood behind us, we might as well say that the river flowing onward to the sea had left the fountain behind.

When we talk of leaving our childhood behind us, we might as well say that the river flowing onward to the sea had left the fountain behind.