William Cullen Bryant Quotes

Where are the flowers, the fair young flowers, that lately sprang and stood In brighter light and softer airs, a beauteous sisterhood?

William Cullen Bryant

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• If you have a block of ballistics gelatin and a high-speed camera, pretty soon somebody gets a gun!

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • High
  • Pretty
  • You

• I'm not comparing myself at all to him, but I like the idea that Ernest Hemingway always wrote about certain things he knew, he knew the ins and outs, back to fronts of what he was talking about. I love that as an inspiration for myself, to keep it true to what you know.

  

  Imelda May
  • Love
  • True
  • Inspiration

• There's certain things I try to avoid, as an actress, just to keep my world from being as narrow as it could be.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • World
  • Things
  • Try

• 'Dangerous' is an album that I was very dedicated to. I wanted every song to be a hit.

  

  Yandel Wisin & Yandel
  • Song
  • Dangerous
  • Very

• What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Beginning
  • End
  • Start

• When you've got kids, you turn into Mom, and that's it.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Kids
  • You
  • Mom

• The thing about the Internet is that you can write something... for a very narrow audience and make a living at it.

  

  Randall Munroe
  • You
  • Internet
  • Living

• I'm not confident in my own ability to resist the titanic force of my own ego.

  

  Garth Risk Hallberg
  • Ability
  • Ego
  • Confident

• If I wasn't performing, I wasn't alive. That's the truth. My parents had absolutely no interest in the business, but they knew it made me happy, so they said 'Go for it, girl!'

  

  Samantha Barks
  • Business
  • Truth
  • Happy

• If you're powerful, you are much more likely to be blind and deaf to signals from outside.

  

  Adam Michnik
  • Powerful
  • Blind
  • Deaf

• We just sort of thought a Web series would be a cool thing to be able to send to our parents to show them that we were, in fact, actually doing comedy.

  

  Abbi Jacobson
  • Parents
  • Comedy
  • Cool

• I haven't sold to the movies. In other words, I haven't gotten any enormous checks yet.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Words
  • Movies
  • Other

• Are we like late Rome, infatuated with past glories, ruled by a complacent, greedy elite, and hopelessly powerless to respond to changing conditions?

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Past
  • Late
  • Rome

• Because I'm a designer, I'm quite good when I shop. I know what I'm looking for.

  

  Ozwald Boateng
  • Good
  • Know
  • Looking

• Back when Saddam Hussein was in power, the Americans didn't care about his crimes. When he was gassing the Kurds and gassing Iran, they didn't care about it. When oil was at stake, somehow, suddenly, things mattered.

  

  Sam Richards
  • Power
  • Care
  • Oil

• I am naturally slim, actually thin. So, for years I have been trying to get some curves. I tried eating food that would increase my weight, but I only ended up putting fat around my stomach. So, now I have made peace with my body.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Food
  • Body
  • Eating

• There are people who want me to do a cologne. They want to call it 'Patrick.' I was offered a fortune to make exercise videos. Posters, all kinds of stuff – something like $10 million worth. It's insanity. I'm not going to do any of it.

  

  Patrick Swayze
  • People
  • Want
  • Fortune

• You can choose not to sit on the fence. You can choose not to criticise. You must stand as guard at the door of your own mind and choose to be positive.

  

  Gail Kelly
  • Mind
  • Positive
  • Door

• A necessary consequent of religious belief is the attaching ideas of merit to that belief, and of demerit to its absence.

  

  Frances Wright
  • Ideas
  • Religious
  • Belief

• Nothing lasts forever in my profession.

  

  Leslie Odom, Jr.
  • Forever

• I can't even consider the prospect of grandchildren because I don't know if there will be anything left for them on Earth. That's how serious the problem is. We can't drink the water or breathe the air, and we're all dying from some sort of cancer. How many generations can sustain that? It frightens me terribly.

  

  Patti Davis
  • Earth
  • Water
  • Serious

• Children are easily influenced, and I always want to do things I can be proud to show my kids someday.

  

  Faith Hill
  • Children
  • Kids
  • Want

• I know a good many people, I think, who are bigots, and who know they are bigots, and are sorry for it, but they dare not be anything else.

  

  Edwin Hubbell Chapin
  • People
  • Good
  • Sorry

• Where are the flowers, the fair young flowers, that lately sprang and stood In brighter light and softer airs, a beauteous sisterhood?

  

  William Cullen Bryant
  • Air
  • Sister
  • Flower