Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes

I am the daughter of Earth and Water, And the nursling of the Sky; I pass through the pores of the ocean and shores; I change, but I cannot die.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

• Earth
• Die
• Water
• Daughter
• Sky
• Ocean

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• I would love to go help baby sea turtles back into the ocean after hatching in Mexico.

  

  Tamara Feldman
  • Help
  • Baby
  • Sea

• Seventy years old! How did that happen? I was part of the generation that wasn't going to die.

  

  Ian McShane
  • Die
  • Old
  • Generation

• I never used to drink water. I am drinking six liters of water every day now. That's the key.

  

  Warren Cuccurullo Duran Duran
  • Water
  • Drinking
  • Key

• I worked a little as a messenger on a bicycle and then decided to study photography and film.

  

  Ori Gersht
  • Study
  • Photography
  • Bicycle

• Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Nature
  • Earth
  • Mountains

• Man has evolved a mutual relationship with nature on earth, but his power to change its surface has grown so tremendously that this may become a curse instead of a blessing.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • May
  • Power
  • Nature

• People are predominant in my paintings. Although they are not obvious, you can feel their presence.

  

  Ralph Allen
  • People
  • Feel
  • Presence

• The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Nature
  • Earth
  • Flower

• It feels like Gangstarr is the purest group in hip-hop. They was shooting videos on the beach in the winter when the water was ice. Razor-blade music.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Music
  • Water
  • Winter

• Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Life
  • Society
  • Health

• However and wherever we are, we must live as if we will never die.

  

  Nazim Hikmet
  • Live
  • Die
  • Never

• I was so scared of the water when I was little. I used to grab onto Mum's hand to get out of the pool. I did not even want to shower.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • Want
  • Hand
  • Water

• I guess I was a mom so late in life, my daughter was the greatest thing since sliced bread.

  

  Candice Bergen
  • Life
  • Mom
  • Daughter

• Anyone can die. Rule number one is don't get too attached to a character, anyone can go.

  

  Jack Huston
  • Character
  • Die
  • Rule

• When the game is on, I want to be on the field, but I'm willing to catch, walk, run. I just want to be there. I'll even be water boy.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Game
  • Water
  • Boy

• Hobbits are an unobtrusive but very ancient people, more numerous formerly than they are today; for they love peace and quiet and good tilled earth: a well-ordered and well-farmed countryside was their favourite haunt.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • People
  • Peace
  • Quiet

• Sure, we've had our fair share of ups and downs, but I don't know if we've had more than any other rock band... we just have a way of getting ourselves into hot water.

  

  Carl Wilson
  • Water
  • Band
  • Rock

• Giant squid aren't rare. Based on the number of beaks that have been found in the stomachs of sperm whales, it's thought that there are actually millions of them in the ocean, and yet, we haven't seen them.

  

  Edith Widder
  • Thought
  • Ocean
  • Rare

• I don't believe in reincarnation. I feel like we're here for such an appallingly brief period of time. I believe we each get this one trip, and if we're really, really fortunate, maybe we get 70 or 80 years on Earth.

  

  Anthony Doerr
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Earth

• All, the intelligent and stupid, diligent and idle, have been swept along on a current of increased output that, in the usual case, owed nothing whatever to their efforts.

  

  John Kenneth Galbraith
  • Stupid
  • Intelligent

• … really very critical of hereditary peers, but they - I mean - they've got their faults, but some of those faults have been in the family for generations.

  

  Jeremy Hardy
  • Family

• Live beyond your means, then you're forced to work hard, you have to succeed.

  

  Edward G. Robinson
  • Work
  • Live
  • Succeed

• I am the daughter of Earth and Water, And the nursling of the Sky; I pass through the pores of the ocean and shores; I change, but I cannot die.

  

  Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • Earth
  • Die
  • Water