William Cullen Bryant Quotes
Father, thy hand Hath reared these venerable columns, thou Didst weave this verdant roof. Thou didst look down Upon the naked earth, and, forthwith, rose All these fair ranks of trees. They, in thy sun, Budded, and shook their green leaves in thy breeze, And shot towards heaven.
Quotes to Explore
-
Democracy opens new vistas and opportunities. We should use the opportunities it offers to correct past mistakes not to blunder anew.
-
Leaders who master emotions can rob us of our capacities to reason. If their values are out of step with our own, the results can be devastating.
-
My hearing has suffered seriously; just now I am obliged to have the assistance of an ear trumpet. Think of that, my beauty! - There 's a state for your old Lover to be in! - No more tender whisperings! Imagine sweet confessions to be made through an ear trumpet!
-
The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does.
-
Just as soaps were very pivotal in the transition from radio to television, they will be right in the thick of things again in the transition from television to the Internet. Exciting news.
-
There is simply no room for racial, hurtful language spoken to your colleagues or anyone else.
-
Everybody who does anything for the public can be criticized. There's always someone who doesn't like it.
-
I do think that the audience thinks it's funny when you break, but if you do it all the time, it loses something.
-
Fools are more to be feared than the wicked.
-
The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.
-
What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.
-
You have to turn the noise off a little bit. Fortunately, I'm not really on social media. I've been able to live in a bit of a black hole.
-
I want to, at the end of the day, be able to say, 'I am a runner.'
-
I feel like there should be a statute of limitations on scoring political points on the tragedy that was Hurricane Katrina.
-
I want to write my own stuff, and, you know, it would be nice to put myself in it. But I would like to hope that there are going to be better roles offered as well and that I don't need to do everything. You know, like, I appreciate my career being somewhat DIY, but it would be nice to get some help.
-
It's easy when you have suffered to feel the link with what others have gone through.
-
I expect a tough, hard fight. Liam Smith is coming to win.
-
The checks and balances is a way to prevent government from either devolving into an autocratic tyranny or an autocratic mob mentality.
-
Repressive regimes do not endure change willingly - and Venezuela is no exception.
-
After they lose, I think all tennis players go back to a specific part of the match where they wish they had done something different.
-
They would think she was savoring the taste (blueberries, cinnamon, cream-excellent), but she was actually savoring the whole morning, trying to catch it, pin it down, keep it safe before all those precious moments became yet another memory.
-
You're familiar with the tragedies of antiquity, are you? The great homicidal classics?
-
Father, thy hand Hath reared these venerable columns, thou Didst weave this verdant roof. Thou didst look down Upon the naked earth, and, forthwith, rose All these fair ranks of trees. They, in thy sun, Budded, and shook their green leaves in thy breeze, And shot towards heaven.
