Ebenezer Elliott Quotes

The streams, rejoiced that winter's work is done, Talk of to-morrow's cowslips as they run.

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• My virgin sense of sound was steeped In the music of young streams; And roses through the casement peeped, And scented all my dreams.

  

  Alfred Austin
  • Music
  • Dreams
  • Sound

• We all end in the ocean. We all start in the streams. We're all carried along, by the river of dreams.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Dreams
  • Ocean
  • River

• When I remember something which I had, But which is gone, and I must do without, I sometimes wonder how I can be glad, Even in cowslip time when hedges sprout; It makes me sigh to think on it,--but yet My days will not be better days, should I forget.

  

  Jean Ingelow
  • Time
  • Sprout
  • Cowslip

• Since God is the foundation of my life, anything that streams from that can only be positive.

  

  Ving Rhames
  • Foundation
  • Streams

• All streams flow to the sea because it is lower than they are. Humility gives it its power.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Power
  • Humility
  • Streams

• And some day there will be nothing left of everything that has twisted my life and grieved it and filled me so often with such anguish. Some day, with the last exhaustion, peace will come and the motherly earth will gather me back home. It won't be the end of things, only a way of being born again, a bathing and a slumbering where the old and the withered sink down, where the young and new begin to breathe. Then, with other thoughts, I will walk along streets like these, and listen to streams, and overhear what the sky says in the evening, over and over and over.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Thoughts
  • Breathe
  • Streams

• Streams may spring from one source, and yet some be clear and some be foul.

  

  Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Source
  • Streams
  • Foul

• Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Blessed
  • Wor

• I try to do everything from thinking about big issues like how a building fits into the larger stream of architectural history to practical issues such as how it feels to navigate your way through its interior.

  

  Paul Goldberger
  • Trying
  • Feels
  • Building

• I am beginning to understand that the stream the scientists are studying is not just a little creek. It's a river of energy that moves across regions in great geographic cycles. Here, life and death are only different points on a continuum. The stream flows in a circle through time and space, turning death into life across coastal ecosystems, as it has for more than a million years. But such streams no longer flow in the places where most of us live.

  

  Kathleen Moore
  • Space
  • Understand
  • Places

• No life, my honest scholar, no life so happyand so pleasant as the life of a well-governed angler; for when the lawyer is swallowed up with business, and the statesman is preventing or contriving plots, then we sit on cowslip-banks, hear the birds sing, and possess ourselves in as much quietness as these silver streams, which we now see glide so quietly by us.

  

  William Walton
  • Honest
  • Streams
  • Scholar

• If all of this, all the life of a stream of water, can be nothing but a pile of atoms, how much more is possible?

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Water
  • Atoms
  • Streams

• According to the Buddha's teaching the beginning of the life-stream of living beings is unthinkable. THe believer in the creation of life by God may be astonished at this reply. But if you were to ask him 'What is the beginning of God?' he would answer without hesitation 'God has no beginning', and he is not astonished at his own reply.

  

  Walpola Rahula
  • Creation
  • Teaching
  • Answers

• Every now and then you get a nice Jewish kid who likes black people and they would come in, and it would be a stream of them, and have black friends and really feel the black struggle on the acting tip and it's a reason why all of us are not dying in the movie.

  

  Mike Epps
  • Reason
  • Struggle
  • Acting

• I'm more into the perception scope of a work; I'm exploring this concept of perception and how people can look at someone, look at the community, and put in so much judgment, so much stereotype, so much misconception.

  

  eL Seed
  • Community
  • Perception
  • Judgment

• Some kids don't want to be organized all the time. They want to let their imaginations run; they want to see where a stream of water takes them.

  

  Richard Louv
  • Running
  • Imagination
  • Organized

• We need to eliminate hate speech. We need to do our part to really engineer kindness on our digital platforms.

  

  Whitney Wolfe Herd
  • Hate
  • Need
  • Kindness

• I think the hardest person to love is yourself I mean – You carry your flaws like burdens And you feel them on your skin The words you shouldn't have said Still echo in your head So you keep quiet Your mistakes, like monsters They haunt you And you put them to sleep every night The words you should've said Still echo in your head I bet you'd give yourself a chance If you were someone else instead

  

  Carla Nazih al-Berkashi
  • Love
  • Chance
  • Mistakes

• Book writing is a little different because, in my case, my editor is a year younger than me and basically has the same sensibility as me.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
  • Different
  • Writing
  • Book

• From the Sun I learned this: when he goes down, overrich; he pours gold into the sea out of inexhaustible riches, so that even the poorest fisherman still rows with golden oars. For this I once saw and I did not tire of my tears as I watched it.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Sea
  • Tears
  • Learned

• To do injustice is the greatest of all evils.

  

  Plato
  • Injustice
  • All Evils

• The streams, rejoiced that winter's work is done, Talk of to-morrow's cowslips as they run.

  

  Ebenezer Elliott
  • Streams
  • Wor
  • Cowslip