| Simpson’s Contemporary Quotations, compiled by James B. Simpson. 1988. |
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| NUMBER: | 4446 |
| AUTHOR: | Mort Young |
| QUOTATION: | The aged nuns … struck out across the grounds, looking at the wonder of it all and seeming to passers-by like gentle, tired birds whose wings no longer had the strength to lift them beyond the clouds. It was an illusion. It was only their hurt bodies that were earthbound. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | On a group of 27 retired nuns who visited NY World’s Fair, NY Journal-American 5 Jun 64 |
| SUBJECTS: | Humankind: Religion: Polity & Religious Leaders |
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