There were air raids at night. The factory was dark and dirty. And I … — Ruth Pitter

There were air raids at night. The factory was dark and dirty. And I remember thinking - well - I must find somebody or something because like this I cannot go on.

Ruth PitterMusician · British · 1897 – 1992

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Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home. — Samuel Johnson
To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man. — William Shakespeare
If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I would do any honest thing under the sun to know C. S. Lewis, and so am very grateful to you. — Ruth Pitter
One's homesickness for Heaven finds at least an inn there; and it's an inn on the right road. — Ruth Pitter
It seems to me that in our lifetime we have passed from the wreck of liberal humanism to the beginning of a new recognition of dogma: isn't it rather tremendous? — Ruth Pitter