Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca) Quotes
I saw the tracks of angels in the earth: the beauty of heaven walking by itself on the world.
Petrarch
Quotes to Explore
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It may be that when the angels go about their task praising God, they play only Bach. I am sure, however, that when they are together en famille they play Mozart.
Karl Barth
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President Obama, like every other leader on Earth, is still going to be looking out for national and economic interests. States don't cease to be states overnight just because they get a great visionary as their new president.
Samantha Power
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There are grander and more sublime landscapes - to me. There are more compelling cultures. But what appeals to me about central Montana is that the combination of landscape and lifestyle is the most compelling I've seen on this earth. Small mountain ranges and open prairie, and different weather, different light, all within a 360-degree view.
Sam Abell
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I just never subscribed to the theory that at age 55, you fall off the face of the earth on the Tour. I always felt that was too young of an age for that.
Hale Irwin
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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
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If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.
Harriet Martineau
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If an alien race lands on the planet Earth tomorrow and asks me to prove I'm really here, what do I do? What do I give them? What do I tell them? What do I show them? I can't sing or dance. I can't paint. I've never built anything, and I've never contributed anything significant to the human race.
Macaulay Culkin
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I say you play a part, you don't work one.
John Hurt
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Your men are brave men, And you have won. I can live with that, Earl of Bronze — a poor man would I be if I could not.
David Gemmell
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I look at my contemporaries, and we're all at different stages and levels, and all choosing different routes, different ways to do things.
Jamie Bell
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Like all fairy tales, the story of Sleeping Beauty begins with 'Once upon a time,' and continues with a foolish young princess who makes a witch very angry, and then takes a nap until her boyfriend wakes her up with a kiss and insists on getting married, at which point the story ends with the phrase 'happily ever after.'
Daniel Handler
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I saw the tracks of angels in the earth: the beauty of heaven walking by itself on the world.
Petrarch