Elizabeth Oakes Smith Quotes

The tender violet bent in smiles To elves that sported nigh, Tossing the drops of fragrant dew To scent the evening sky.

Elizabeth Oakes Smith

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• The fundamental importance of the subject of molecular diffraction came first to be recognized through the theoretical work of the late Lord Rayleigh on the blue light of the sky, which he showed to be the result of the scattering of sunlight by the gases of the atmosphere.

  

  C. V. Raman
  • Work
  • Light
  • Sky

• Growing up on a farm was the best. I remember loving that expanse of space. The sky at night was so clear, I could see every star.

  

  Abbie Cornish
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Night

• All the teaching I had ever received had failed to make me apply such intelligence as I was possessed of, directly and vividly: there had never been any sunshine, as regards language, in the earlier grey days of learning, for the sky had always pelted with gerunds and optatives.

  

  E. F. Benson
  • Learning
  • Sky
  • Intelligence

• Technology is incredibly powerful. And in many ways, the sky is the limit in terms of what you can actually accomplish with the right science and the right technology. But to get there, you have to actually invest in R&D. And often that means you have to be willing to spend an awful lot in that R&D phase before you see the benefits.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Science
  • Technology
  • Powerful

• 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
  • Sky
  • White
  • Lake

• 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
  • God
  • Nature
  • Night

• 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
  • God
  • Sky
  • River

• Never could I tell, try as I might, what it actually was that I saw; nor could the still face tell, for although it must have seen more than I did, it will never speak again. But always I shall guard against the mocking and insatiate Hypnos, lord of sleep, against the night sky, and against the mad ambitions of knowledge and philosophy.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Night
  • Knowledge
  • Sleep

• Awakening hope has named the nameOf love, or blown its spark to flame.Restlessness, but as the winds rangeFrom leaf to leaf, from flower to flower;Changefulness, but as rainbows change,From colour'd sky to sunlit hour.Ay, well indeed may minstrel sing,-What have the heart and year like spring?

  

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon
  • Heart
  • May
  • Hope

• 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

• Our hands are hot and raw with the stones we have laid,We have built a tower of stone high into the sky,We have built a city of towers.

  

  Conrad Aiken
  • High
  • City
  • Sky

• 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
  • Men
  • Together
  • Giving

• MoveOn loves government. It remains enamored of government spending as fuel for its liberal agenda; and anything that threatens to close that spigot in any degree is perceived as a dire threat - worthy of Chicken-Little warnings that the sky is going to fall.

  

  Bob Barr
  • Fall
  • Sky

• I quit being afraid when my first venture failed and the sky didn't fall down.

  

  Allen Neuharth
  • Fall
  • Sky

• 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
  • Focus
  • Sky

• We had no idea what we were in for when we started Blue Sky. We just had an idea of what we wanted to do. When we got to a point where it seemed impossible, we just kept doing it. After 18 years, we have a lot of it done.

  

  Chris Wedge
  • Done
  • Sky
  • Blue

• Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Smiles
  • Wrinkles
  • Indicate

• Know where to find the sunrise and sunset times and note how the sky looks at those times, at least once.

  

  Marilyn vos Savant
  • Sky
  • Sunset
  • Sunrise

• Do not wonder that I am so religious. An artist who is not could not produce anything like this. I like praying there at the window when I look out on the green and at the sky. I study with the birds, flowers, God and myself.

  

  Antonin Dvorak
  • God
  • Religious
  • Wonder

• Marie Antoinette. Her last words were,"Pardon me sir. I did not mean to do it,"to a man whose foot she stepped on before she was executed by the guillotine

  

  Marie Antoinette
  • She
  • Words
  • Guillotine

• The need to leave a legacy is our spiritual need to have a sense of meaning, purpose, personal congruence, and contribution.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Purpose
  • Spiritual
  • Needs

• A good father and a good outlaw can't settle inside the same man.

  

  Alessandro Aleotti
  • Good
  • Father

• He had a startling genius, but somehow it did n't emerge;Always on the evolution of things that would n't evolve;Always verging toward some climax, but he never reached the verge;Always nearing the solution of some theme he could not solve.

  

  Sam Walter Foss

• The tender violet bent in smiles To elves that sported nigh, Tossing the drops of fragrant dew To scent the evening sky.

  

  Elizabeth Oakes Smith
  • Sky
  • Violent
  • Smiles