Stella Benson Quotes

The sun was like a word written between the sea and the sky, a word that was swallowed up by the sea before any man had time to read it.

Stella Benson

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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

• The sun never sets on my gallery.

  

  Larry Gagosian
  • Never
  • Sun
  • Gallery

• What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up Like a raisin in the sun? Or does it explode?

  

  Langston Hughes
  • Up
  • Dream
  • Like

• Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Sun
  • Winter
  • Laughter

• Technology is incredibly powerful. And in many ways, the sky is the limit in terms of what you can actually accomplish with the right science and the right technology. But to get there, you have to actually invest in R&D. And often that means you have to be willing to spend an awful lot in that R&D phase before you see the benefits.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Science
  • Technology
  • Powerful

• I love to draw and paint. I'm very active in that way, but I'm not very good with the written word, though.

  

  Mackenzie Foy
  • Love
  • Word
  • Written

• Sea spaghetti looks like dark fettuccine and has a similar texture - you can get it in health food stores or online.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Food
  • Health
  • Dark

• My upbringing made me think that real legitimate music is written, not heard.

  

  Dan Fogelberg
  • Music
  • Think
  • Written

• I grew up sailing in the North Sea.

  

  Laura Dekker
  • Up
  • Sea
  • Sailing

• You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Water
  • Sea
  • Motivational

• Throughout the history of Iceland, men have been lost at sea; every family in Iceland is connected to that kind of story.

  

  Baltasar Kormakur
  • Men
  • Family
  • History

• In our sun-down perambulations, of late, through the outer parts of Brooklyn, we have observed several parties of youngsters playing 'base', a certain game of ball ... Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our close rooms ... the game of ball is glorious.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Game
  • Air
  • Sun

• It was many and many a year ago,In a kingdom by the sea,That a maiden lived whom you may knowBy the name of Annabel Lee; - And this maiden she lived with no other thoughtThan to love and be loved by me.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • May
  • She
  • Sea

• 'Do you know a cure for me?' 'Why yes,' he said, 'I know a cure for everything. Salt water.' 'Salt water?' I asked him. 'Yes,' he said, 'in one way or the other. Sweat, or tears, or the salt sea.'

  

  Karen Blixen
  • Why
  • Water
  • Sea

• The stars are not wanted now; put out every one, Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun, Pour away the ocean and sweep up the woods; For nothing now can ever come to any good.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Up
  • Good
  • Sun

• Now this word SABAF, being by number Three score and Ten, is a name of Ayin, the Eye, and the Devil our Lord, and the Goat of Mendes. He is the Lord of the Sabbath of the Adepts, and is Satan, therefore also the Sun, whose number of Magick is 666, the seal of His servant the BEAST.

  

  Aleister Crowley
  • Sun
  • Devil
  • Satan

• Is global warming causing more extreme weather events of greater intensity, and is it causing sea levels to rise? The answer to both is an emphatic 'no.'

  

  Jim Inhofe
  • Sea

• I have always found it difficult to wait for things - whether it was to see my father or sailor brother, Alan, again after their long sea trips, or the chance of a better job, or even new curtains.

  

  Anna Neagle
  • Long
  • Job
  • Father

• There's no life like the life I've lived. You're free like a cloud floating up in the sky.

  

  Doyle Brunson
  • Life
  • Up
  • Free

• Do not the brave know The greatness of their progeny? A country present will meet thee, And while it may possibly be yours, Three hundred thousand years save one, A short hour of the day of everlasting life.

  

  Taliesin
  • Life
  • Country
  • May

• I want to see the time come when black men will regard themselves as full participants in the benefits and duties of American citizens. We cannot go on, as we have gone on for more than half a century, with one great section of our population . . . set off from real contribution to solving national issues, because of a division on race lines.

  

  Warren G. Harding
  • Time
  • Great
  • Men

• Churches may decay and perish; riches may make themselves wings and fly away-but he who builds their happiness on Christ crucified and union with Him by faith, that person is standing on a foundation which shall never be moved, and will know something of true peace.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • May
  • True
  • Faith

• 'What’s that all about?' Golden said to his wife, a rhetorical question. She looked at him and said nothing, a non-rhetorical answer.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • She
  • Question
  • Wife

• The sun was like a word written between the sea and the sky, a word that was swallowed up by the sea before any man had time to read it.

  

  Stella Benson
  • Sun
  • Sea
  • Sky