Quotes by Katharine Lee Bates

About Katharine Lee Bates:

Katharine Lee Bates is remembered as the author of the words to the anthem "America the Beautiful". She popularized "Mrs. Santa Claus" through her poem Goody Santa Claus on a Sleigh Ride (1889).
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

A taste for the best reading is not cultivated in Spanish girls, even where the treasures of that great Castilian literature are accessible to them.

Katharine Lee Bates

The habit of begging, that plague of tourist resorts, is an incessant nuisance on the Alhambra hill.

Katharine Lee Bates

A typical Seville shop reaches far along the street front, with many open doors, and a counter running the full length. Here ladies sit in pairs and groups, never singly, to cheapen fans and mantillas, while the smiling salesmen, cigarette in hand, s...

Katharine Lee Bates

Spanish children are too often ill-cared for, but despite the abuses of ignorant motherhood and fatherhood, such vivid, vivacious, bewitching little people as they are!

Katharine Lee Bates

Shakespeare's frequent horseback journeys from London to Stratford, and from Stratford to London, must have made him familiar with the county of Oxfordshire.

Katharine Lee Bates

It is the hour to rend thy chains, the blossom time of souls.

Katharine Lee Bates

Surely martyrs, irrespective of the special phase of the divine idea for which they gladly give up their bodies to torture and to death, are the truest heroes of history.

Katharine Lee Bates

The life of Liverpool is commerce; it is a city of warehouses and shops.

Katharine Lee Bates

Love planted a rose, and the world turned sweet.

Katharine Lee Bates

Warwick Castle, built of the very centuries, cannot be expected to alter with time's 'brief hours and weeks' - at least, with so few of them as fall to one poor mortal's lot. From visit to visit, I find it as unchanged as the multiplication table.

Katharine Lee Bates

Author Bio

  • NameKatharine Lee Bates
  • DescriptionAmerican poet and songwriter
  • BornAugust 29, 1859
  • DiedMarch 28, 1929
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWoman Of Letters; Poet