Quotes by Authors - Page 133

The English never draw a line without blurring it.
Winston Churchill
Laws die books never.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
We can live without our friends but not without our neighbors.
Thomas Fuller
The Negro is an exotic of the most gorgeous and superb countries of the world and he has deep in his heart a passion for all that is splendid rich and fanciful.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
O black and unknown bards of long ago How came your lips to touch the sacred fire? How in your darkness did you come to know The power and beauty of the minstrel's lyre?
James Weldon Johnson
The image of God cut in ebony.
Thomas Fuller
Not for myself I make this prayer But for this race of mine That stretches forth from shadowed places Dark hands for bread and wine.
Countee Cullen
Necessity the mother of invention.
Anonymous
Necessity has no law.
Anonymous
The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
Edward Gibbon
When I would recreate myself I seek the darkest wood the thickest and most interminable and to the citizen most dismal swamp. I enter a swamp as a sacred place - a sanctum sanctorum. There is the strength the marrow of Nature.
Henry David Thoreau
Nature like a kind and smiling mother lends herself to our dreams and cherishes our fancies.
Victor Hugo
When I look at the future it's so bright it burns my eyes.
Oprah Winfrey
When all else is lost the future still remains.
Christian Bovee
Yesterday is not ours to recover but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.
Lyndon B. Johnson
Normal day let me be aware of the treasure you are. Let me learn from you love you bless you before you depart. Let me not pass you by in quest of some rare and perfect tomorrow.
Mary Jean Iron
I love the challenge of starting at zero every day and seeing how much I can accomplish.
Martha Stewart
Whether one is twenty forty or sixty whether one has succeeded failed or just muddled along whether yesterday was full of sun or storm or one of those dull days with no weather at all life begins each morning I
Leigh Mitchell Hodges
Weather means more when you have a garden. There's nothing like listening to a shower and thinking how it is soaking in around your green beans.
Marcelene Cox
The next time it begins to rain ... lie down on your belly nestle your chin into the grass and get a frog's-eye view of how raindrops fall . . . The sight of hundreds of blades of grass bowing down and popping back up like piano keys strikes me as one of the merriest sights in the world.
Malcolm Margolin
For many years I was self-appointed inspector of snowstorms and rainstorms and did my duty faithfully though I never received one cent for it.
Henry David Thoreau
Every flower is a soul blossoming in Nature.
Gérard de Nerval
Next time a sunrise steals your breath or a meadow of flowers leave you speechless remain that way. Say nothing and listen as heaven whispers "Do you like it? I did it just for you."
Max Lucado
It was one of those perfect summer days - the sun was shining a breeze was blowing the birds were singing and the lawnmower was broken.
James Dent
I never knew how soothing trees are - many trees and patches of open sunlight and tree presences it is almost like having another being.
D.H. Lawrence
As long as the Earth can make a spring every year I can. As long as the Earth can flower and produce nurturing fruit I can because I'm the Earth. I won't give up until the Earth gives up.
Alice Walker
The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
John Muir
The sun gives us light but the moon provides inspiration. If you look at the sun without shielding your eyes you'll go blind. If you look at the moon without covering your eyes you'll become a poet.
Serge Bouchard
The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.
Henry David Thoreau
Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns so each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry.
Richard Feynman
The sun - my almighty physician.
Thomas Jefferson
Nature tops the list of potent tranquilizers and stress reducers. The mere sound of moving water has been shown to lower blood pressure.
Patch Adams
The bluebird carries the sky on his back.
Henry David Thoreau
Climb the mountains and get their good tidings: Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine into flowers the winds will blow their freshness into you and the storms their energy and cares will drop off like autumn leaves.
John Muir
Rivers and rocks and trees have always been talking to us but we've forgotten how to listen.
Michael Roads
If you watch how nature deals with adversity continually renewing itself you can't help but learn.
Bernie Siegel
The radiance in some places is so great as to be fairly dazzling . . . every crystal every flower a window opening into heaven a mirror reflecting the Creator.
John Muir
Man is a complex being: he makes deserts bloom and lakes die.
Gil Stern
The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination but the combination is locked up in the safe.
Peter De Vries
The whole of nature is a conjugation of the verb to eat in the active and passive.
Dean William R. Inge
I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beech tree or a yellow birch or an old acquaintance among the pines.
Henry David Thoreau
Grass is the forgiveness of nature - her constant benediction. Forests decay harvests perish flowers vanish but grass is immortal.
Brian Ingalls
The soil in return for her service keeps the tree tied to her the sky asks nothing and leaves it free.
Rabindranath Tagore
A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.
Tennessee Williams
Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.
Carl Sagan
Nature is a catchment of sorrows.
Maxine Kumin
Like a gardener I believe that what goes down must come up.
Lynwood L. Giacomini
It is not necessarily those lands which are the most fertile or most favored climate that seem to me the happiest but those in which a long stroke of adaptation between man and his environment has brought out the best qualities of both.
T.S Eliot
Is dishwater dull? Naturalists with microscopes have told me that it teems with quiet fun.
G.K. Chesterton
Mystery is the wisdom of blockheads.
Horace Walpole
Going to the opera like getting drunk is a sin that carries its own punishment with it and that a very severe one.
Hannah More
She was an aging singer who had to take every note above 'A' with her eyebrows.
Montague Glass
Harpists spend half their life tuning and the other half playing out of tune.
Anonymous
Chamber music - a conversation between friends.
Catherine Drinker Bowen
Oboe - an ill woodwind that nobody blows good.
Anonymous
The good composer is slowly discovered the bad composer is slowly found out.
Ernest Newman
For most singers the first half of the career involves extending one's repertoire the second half trimming it.
Ethan Mordden
Music is the shorthand of emotion.
Leo Tolstoy
No one can any longer write in the fat style of Strauss. That was killed by Stravinsky. He stripped the body of much of its clothes. Music is the craft of building structures with sound and that is what Stravinsky represents.
Vladimir Nabokov
Opera purges men of those hesitations and worries which make it difficult for them to acknowledge their importance to themselves. A good performance of an opera that is provides a language for us to speak of ourselves as we have always known we should speak.
Hamish Swanston