Simpson’s Contemporary Quotations, compiled by James B. Simpson. 1988.
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
