J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes

And he took her in his arms and kissed her under the sunlit sky, and he cared not that they stood high upon the walls in the sight of many.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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• Work at the same time on sky, water, branches, ground, keeping everything going on an equal basis... Don't be afraid of putting on colour... Paint generously and unhesitatingly, for it is best not to lose the first impression.

  

  Camille Pissarro
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  • Water

• The enormous lake stretched flat and smooth and white all the way to the edge of the gray sky. Wagon tracks went away across it, so far that you could not see where they went; they ended in nothing at all.

  

  Laura Ingalls Wilder
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• I haven't let the gold medal out of my sight; it sleeps next to me in bed.

  

  Magdalena Neuner
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• Look out into the universe and contemplate the glory of God. Observe the stars, millions of them, twinkling in the night sky, all with a message of unity, part of the very nature of God.

  

  Sai Baba
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• By the time Africa is developed, it will be the wonderland of the world, 'cause it will be able to make use of all the mistakes of other nations. But it nah go just drop out of the sky. So we have to put in work.

  

  Damian Marley
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• Hey sky, take off your hat, I'm on my way!

  

  Valentina Tereshkova
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• I have seen three emperors in their nakedness, and the sight was not inspiring.

  

  Otto von Bismarck
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  • Sight

• The countryside meant grain and herds, and a river meant fish. And if the sky meant anything, it meant a cruel God who took no notice of their pains and chastised them if they sinned.

  

  Tanith Lee
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• So on and onwe walked without thinking of restpassing craters, passing fire,under the rocking sky of '41tottering crazy on its smoking columns.

  

  Yevgeny Yevtushenko
  • Thinking
  • Crazy
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• It's true that all the men you knew were dealers who said they were through with dealing Every time you gave them shelter. I know that kind of man It's hard to hold the hand of anyone who is reaching for the sky just to surrender.

  

  Leonard Cohen
  • Time
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• And in the morning when the sun rise.Look in the water, see the blue sky.As if heaven has been laid there at our feet.

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
  • Water
  • Morning
  • Heaven

• And as he lay there a far crack of lightning went bluely down the sky and bequeathed him in an embryonic bird's first fissured vision of the world and transpiring instant and outrageous from dark to dark a final view of the grotto and the shapeless white plasm struggling upon the rich and incunabular moss like a lank swamp hare.

  

  Cormac McCarthy
  • World
  • Dark
  • Vision

• Some people say great God come from the sky take away everything and make everybody feel high, but if you know what life is worth, you will look for yours on earth.

  

  Bob Marley
  • People
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• By all means I will be married if you wish it. But on these conditions: everything must be as it has been hitherto-that is, she must live in Moscow while I live in the country, and I will come and see her. ... I promise to be an excellent husband, but give me a wife who, like the moon, will not appear every day in my sky.

  

  Anton Chekhov
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• Oh, 1994, April 27. There won't be a day like that ever again. I mean, the sky was blue, with a blueness that had never been there before.

  

  Desmond Tutu
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• The way of fortune is like the milkyway in the sky; which is a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together: so it is a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate.

  

  Francis Bacon
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• I'm never gonna be somebody who's gonna fall down from the sky on a trapeze. That's not me. I really want to make sure that my focus stays on connecting with the audience.

  

  Sara Bareilles
  • Fall
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  • Sky

• Let a new earth rise. Let another world be born. Let a bloody peace be written in the sky. Let a second generation full of courage issue forth; let a people loving freedom come to growth.

  

  Margaret Walker
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• Heaven is not reached at a single bound. But we build the ladder by which we rise. From the lowly earth to the vaulted skies, And we mount to its summit round by round.

  

  J. G. Holland
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  • Single
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• The lifetime we've left behind with strangers Promises and lies both have their dangers. I just can't be wrong enough and I can't hide for long enough So far away, but I still feel your pain.

  

  Ben Harper
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• If I had to define life in a word, it would be: Life is creation.

  

  Claude Bernard
  • Life

• I think sometimes, when you're on top and all you do is win, win, win, win, win, you get lazy and lose focus. When you lose it opens your eyes and you get serious. There is always a time when it is good to lose, at the right time for you.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Time
  • Good
  • Eyes

• That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • You
  • Way
  • Realize

• And he took her in his arms and kissed her under the sunlit sky, and he cared not that they stood high upon the walls in the sight of many.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Sky
  • Sight
  • Kissed