Sara Teasdale Quotes

Oh to be free of myself, With nothing left to remember, To have my heart as bare As a tree in December; Resting, as a tree rests After its leaves are gone, Waiting no more for a rain at night Nor for the red at dawn.

Sara Teasdale

• Heart
• Night
• Waiting
• Tree
• Rain

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• I developed a mania for Fitzgerald - by the time I'd graduated from high school I'd read everything he'd written. I started with 'The Great Gatsby' and moved on to 'Tender Is the Night,' which just swept me away. Then I read 'This Side of Paradise,' his novel about Princeton - I literally slept with that book under my pillow for two years.

  

  A. Scott Berg
  • Time
  • Great
  • School

• I'd love to be a pop star - at heart.

  

  Candice Swanepoel
  • Heart
  • Love
  • Star

• Ye are the fruits of one tree and the leaves of one branch.

  

  Baha'u'llah
  • Tree
  • Fruits
  • Branch

• I believe we are created in the image of God for a particular purpose, and I believe that with all my heart.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • God
  • Believe
  • Heart

• We will do everything to change what needs to be changed, fight against recession so that the country meets its targets, while reinforcing our country in the heart of the euro and the European Union.

  

  Yannis Stournaras
  • Country
  • Heart
  • Change

• I time everything. I'm a scientist at heart.

  

  Ina Garten
  • Time
  • Heart
  • Everything

• In my heart, I'm 100% real. You can't pull out nothing in my past that can say I'm not 100% real.

  

  Young Jeezy
  • Real
  • Heart
  • Past

• My heart is as pure as the driven slush.

  

  Tallulah Bankhead
  • Heart
  • Driven
  • Pure

• A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Love
  • Man
  • Friendship

• I had a slight touch of Tourette's, which means you talk to yourself and bark and cry out at night.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Night
  • Yourself
  • Talk

• My friends who have babies can't do anything. You can't go out at night. Having a baby is like a DUI from the universe.

  

  Natasha Leggero
  • Friends
  • Night
  • Universe

• My parents wanted me to be a doctor. So I took up science, but then realised that my heart was not in it at all. The thought of treating ailing people was very depressing.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • People
  • Up
  • Heart

• Things happen for a reason, and the only thing you can do is at night time get on your knees and ask God for forgiveness for anything that you did that you didn't feel was right.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Time
  • God
  • Night

• I quickly discovered that trying to go play golf while living in Manhattan was about as easy as trying to grab a taxi while standing out in front of Saks Fifth Avenue in the freezing rain on the last shopping day before Christmas.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Trying
  • Day
  • Golf

• Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing.

  

  G. M. Trevelyan
  • God
  • Done
  • May

• Do activities you're passionate about - which make your heart and soul feel perky - including things like working out, cooking, painting, writing, yoga, hiking, walking, swimming, being in nature, being around art, or reading inspiring books.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Writing
  • Heart
  • Art

• Summer has filled her veins with light and her heart is washed with noon.

  

  C. Day Lewis
  • Heart
  • Light
  • Summer

• I hadn't originally intended to do any reading, what if I did read one book more or one book less, whether I read or not wouldn't make a difference, I would still be waiting to get cremated.

  

  Gao Xingjian
  • Book
  • Reading
  • Waiting

• Eyes I dare not meet in dreamsIn death's dream kingdom´These do not appear:There, the eyes areSunlight on a broken columnThere, is a tree swingingAnd voices areIn the wind's singingMore distant and more solemnThan a fading star.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Death
  • Dream
  • Eyes

• I have great respect for the past. If you don't know where you've come from, you don't know where you're going. I have respect for the past, but I'm a person of the moment. I'm here, and I do my best to be completely centered at the place I'm at, then I go forward to the next place.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Great
  • Respect
  • Come From

• A poem begins with a lump in the throat.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Poem
  • Throat
  • Lump

• Oh to be free of myself, With nothing left to remember, To have my heart as bare As a tree in December; Resting, as a tree rests After its leaves are gone, Waiting no more for a rain at night Nor for the red at dawn.

  

  Sara Teasdale
  • Heart
  • Night
  • Waiting