Florence

"There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings."

(Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

"At every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life; the thorns should never be plucked from his (her) roses."

(Ellen Key)

Elizabeth David

"It is not an exaggeration to say that peace and happiness begin, geographically, where garlic is used in cooking."

(Marcel Boulestin)

"Provence is a country to which I am always returning, next week, next year, any day now, as soon as I can get on to a train. Here in London it is an effort of will to believe in the existence of such a place at all."

(Elizabeth David)