Centre Quotes

• Near the snow, near the sun, in the highest fields, See how these names are fêted in the waving grass And by the streamers of the white cloud And whispers of the wind in the listening sky. The names of those who in their lives fought for life, Who wore at their hearts the fire's centre. Born of the sun, they travelled a short while toward the sun And left the vivid air signed with their honour.

  

  Stephen Spender
  • Heart
  • Air
  • Listening

• My words like eyes that flinch from light, refuse And shut upon obscurity; my acts Cast to their opposites by impatient violence Break up the sequent path; they fly On a circumference to avoid the centre.

  

  Stephen Spender
  • Violence
  • Eye
  • Path

• I am a family man for sure — they are the centre of my world.

  

  Mark Wright
  • World
  • Family
  • Centre

• I think that New York is not the cultural centre of America, but the business and administrative centre of American culture.

  

  Saul Bellow
  • Business
  • America
  • Cultural

• The heavens themselves, the planets, and this centre Observe degree, priority, and place, Insisture, course, proportion, season, form, Office, and custom, in all line of order.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Heaven
  • Office
  • Priorities

• A centre of excellence is, by definition, a place where second class people may perform first class work.

  

  Michael Faraday
  • Work
  • Excellence
  • Class

• The heart is that which lies at the centre of things, and is also formless. It is simple awareness devoid of movement to and fro, of past and future, within and without, merit and harm. Wherever the centre of a thing lies, there lies its heart, for the word 'heart' means centrality.

  

  Ajahn Thate
  • Heart
  • Awareness
  • Centre

• To me music is the centre of the universe and the voice of the spirits and the voice of God and the voice of all the people who have lived and died...At least the ones I'm connected to.

  

  John Anthony Frusciante Ataxia
  • Music
  • Universe
  • Spirit

• The collages I never wanted to sell. I thought it was a very private thing, so I kept the collages. Then, in the end, I had a big collage in the Pinault Collection in Venice and the director of the Centre Pompidou said, "Did you make big collages like this in the '60s?" I said yes, so he came to the studio and said, "Let's make an exhibition in the Pompidou."

  

  Erro
  • Said
  • Ends
  • Directors

• Cities are the huge central dynamos of all being. The power of a man can be measured today by the mile, the number of miles between him and the city; that is, between him and what the city stands for -- the centre of mass.

  

  Gerald Stanley Lee
  • Today
  • Numbers
  • Mass

• Basically, financial reporting is this sinking hole at the centre of journalism. You start by swimming around it until finally, reluctantly, you can't fight the pull anymore and you get sucked down the drain into the biz pages.

  

  Tom Rachman
  • Fighting
  • Financial
  • Swimming

• Elephants are my favourite creatures and have been since I was a boy and my mother read Kipling's The Elephant's Child to me. It was loving elephants so much that made we want to write my own story with an elephant at the centre and its bond with a child.

  

  Michael Morpurgo
  • Writing
  • Children
  • Mother

• I like to think I've changed the centre of gravity on lots of national debates.

  

  Nigel Farage
  • Gravity
  • Centre
  • Debates

• We do not live in a centred space any more, but have to create our own centres.

  

  Northrop Frye
  • Space
  • Centre

• The iron arc of the avoiding journey Curves back upon my weakness at the end; Whether the faint light spark against my face Or in the dark my sight hide from my sight, Centre and circumference are both my weakness.

  

  Stephen Spender
  • Dark
  • Journey
  • Weakness

• That's one of the good things about being from the political centre, you're willing to work with both side of politics.

  

  Nick Xenophon
  • Political
  • Sides
  • Centre

• One might say that the novel is the genre that most predisposes one to a profound insight into the tremendous life around us, instead of putting forward one's own tiny ego as the centre of the universe.

  

  Mikhail Sholokhov
  • Profound
  • Might
  • Instead

• I think this is what we must not lose sight of, present a confident, positive and optimistic platform for our country's future in which this Party appeals to the centre ground of British politics.

  

  Nicky Morgan
  • Party
  • Politics
  • Centre

• Even the human heart is slightly left of centre.

  

  Northrop Frye
  • Heart
  • Humans
  • Centre

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