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

• Maybe there are logical reasons for a gay person not to have a great relationship with their parents - not because there's a parent who made him gay, but just because it may be difficult to understand everything.

  

  B. D. Wong
  • Great
  • May
  • Parents

• 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

• Space doesn't offer an escape from Earth's problems. And even with nuclear fuel, the transit time to nearby stars exceeds a human lifetime. Interstellar travel is therefore, in my view, an enterprise for post-humans, evolved from our species not via natural selection, but by design.

  

  Martin Rees
  • Time
  • Earth
  • Space

• One does not arise from such a book as Sister Carrie with a smirk of satisfaction; one leaves it infinitely touched.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Book
  • Sister
  • Smirk

• Hamish is worried about ending up like my parents, who each spend time in their two homes in Bundanoon and Sydney. But that's how their marriage has lasted.

  

  Zoe Foster Blake
  • Up
  • Time
  • Parents

• You see much more of your children once they leave home.

  

  Lucille Ball
  • Children
  • Home

• She felt so old, so worn out, so far away from the best moments of her life that she even yearned for those that she remembered as the worst… Her heart of compressed ash, which had resisted the most telling blows of daily reality without strain, fell apart with the first waves of nostalgia. The need to feel sad was becoming a vice as the years eroded her. She became human in her solitude.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Moments

• 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