A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“A lady who sets her heart upon a lad in uniform must prepare to change lovers pretty quickly, or her life will be but a sad one.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray (Illustrated)
“A lady with a clipboard stopped me in the street the other day. She said, 'Can you spare a few minutes for cancer research?' I said, 'All right, but we won't get much done.'”
“A lady with whom I was riding in the forest said to me that the woods always seemed to her to wait, as if the genii who inhabit them suspend their deeds until the wayfarer had passed onward; a thought which poetry has celebrated in the dance of the fairies, which breaks off on the approach of human feet.”
Source: The Annotated Emerson
“A lady's hair is her crowning glory”
Source: Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel
“A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”
Source: Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1
“A lady, that is an enlightened, cultivated, liberal lady - the only kind to be in a time of increasing classlessness - could espouse any cause: wayward girls, social diseases, unmarried mothers, and/or birth control with impunity. But never by so much as the shadow of a look should she acknowledge her own experience with the Facts of Life.”
Source: A Matter of Life and Death
“A lady, without a family, was the very best preserver of furniture in the world.”
Source: Jane Austen Collection: illustrated - 6 eBooks and 140+ illustrations
“A ladybug saved my life.”
Source: We Have Shadows Too
“A lagging indicator is something that tells you what is going to happen after it already happened.”
“A lake cannot remain stormy for a long time; an ocean cannot remain calm for a long time; everything and everyone cannot behave different from his own character for a long time!”
“A lake carries you into recesses of feeling otherwise impenetrable.”
“A lake so vibrant in color that it looks like a fine art painting.”
Source: A Year in the National Parks: The Greatest American Road Trip
“A lake that is noisy cannot reflect anything”
“A lamb among wolves!”
“A lamb appears a lion, and we fear Each bush we see's a bear.”
Source: Emblems divine and moral: together with hieroglyphics of the life of man
“A lamb in a city of wolves.”
Source: The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned
“A lame creature, a cripple like myself, has no right to love. How should I, broken, shattered being that I am, be anything but a burden to you, when to myself I am an object of disgust, of loathing. A creature such as I, I know, has no right to love, and certainly no right to be loved. It is for such a creature to creep away into a corner and die and cease to make other people's lives a burden with her presence.”
Source: Beware of Pity
“A lament in one ear, maybe, but always a song in the other”
Source: The sting and the twinkle: conversations with Sean O'Casey
“A lament is an act of worship, a faith statement of trust, in the face of difficulty. It's a wonderfully honest way to acknowledge our trouble to God as we also acknowledge our hope is in him.”
Source: The God You Need to Know: Discover His Story, Experience His Love
“A Lament
O world! O life! O time!
On whose last steps I climb,
Trembling at that where I had stood before;
When will return the glory of your prime?
No more—Oh, never more!
Out of the day and night
A joy has taken flight;
Fresh spring, and summer, and winter hoar,
Move my faint heart with grief, but with delight
No more—Oh, never more!”
Source: The Complete Poems
“A lamp can only light another lamp when it continues to burn in its own flame.”
“A lamp cannot play the role of the Sun and the Sun cannot play the role of a lamp.”
“A lamp does not flicker in a place where no wind blows; so it is with a yogi, who controls his mind, intellect and self, being absorbed in the spirit within him.”
“A lamp is lit in woman's eye; that souls, else lost on earth, remember angels by.”
Source: Melanie and other poems. Edited by Barry Cornwall, i.e. B. W. Procter
“A lamp kept on mound illumines the area; if kept in a pit, it is as if it were not. A virtue that is practised is a lamp that shines for all; good thoughts and good deeds have a way of influencing others. The gems of wisdom, the light of intuitive experience should not be kept away from fellow - men. They have to be shared, even at the cost od one's life. That was the lesson Jesus taught and symbolised.”
“A Lancashire Weaver
This place might be haunted
the ghost hunter said
'Midst the dust and the grime
walk the feet of the dead.
The machines now stand idle
Looms clatter no more
There's a stack of old bobbins
piled up by the door.
I remember my Mam
she worked here, so she said
A Lancashire weaver
but now she is dead
Along with this mill
and along with the dreams
of working mill lasses
and their jobs, so it seems
We once wove the best
cotton cloth in the world
But now that's all gone
on the scrap heap been hurled
The clatter of clogs
on the old cobbled street
the humdrum staccato
from thousands of feet.
Tough work and much hardship
and many a care
Folks they got by
for brass, it was rare
but still we had pride
By Christ, did we ever!
Will it ever come back
The answer is NEVER
This place might be haunted
the ghost hunter said
'Midst the dust and the grime
walk the feet of the dead.
I'm glad that my Mam
never saw it this way
Out in all weathers
came here every day
When this closed down
she had already died
Perhaps just as well
She'd have bloody well cried.”
Source: Echoes from a Cobbled Street: Stories and Poems from the North West
“A land acknowledgement or territorial acknowledgement is a formal statement, often spoken at the beginning of a public event, that it is taking place on land originally inhabited by or belonging to indigenous people.
In Canada, land acknowledgements became popular after the 2015 Truth and Reconciliation Commission report (which argued that the country's Indian residential school system had amounted to cultural genocide) and the election of liberal prime minister Justin Trudeau that same year.[2] By 2019, they were a regular practice at events including National Hockey League games, ballet performances and parliament meetings. Critics of land acknowledgements have described them as excesses of political correctness or expressed concerns that they amount to empty gestures that avoid actually addressing the issues of indigenous communities. Ensuring the factual accuracy of acknowledgments can be difficult due to problems like conflicting land claims or unrecorded land exchanges between indigenous groups.
In the United States, the practice of land acknowledgements has been described as "catching on" as of 2020.”
“A land ethic for tomorrow should...stress the oneness of our resources and the live-and-help-live logic of the great chain of life.”
Source: The Quiet Crisis
“A land ethic...reflects the existence of an ecological conscience, and this in
turn reflects a conviction of individual responsibility for the health of the land.
Health is the capacity of the land for self-renewal. Conservation is our effort
to understand and preserve this capacity.”
“A land full of places that are not worth caring about may soon be a nation and a way of life that is not worth defending.”
“A land may be said to be discovered the first time a European, presumably an Englishman, sets foot on it.”
“A land not mine, still forever memorable, the waters of its ocean chill and fresh. Sand on the bottom whiter than chalk, and the air drunk, like wine, late sun lays bare the rosy limbs of the pinetrees. Sunset in the ethereal waves: I cannot tell if the day is ending, or the world, or if the secret of secrets is inside me again.”
“A land of levity is a land of guilt.”
Source: Night thoughts on life death and immortality ... to which are added the life of the author and a paraphrase on part of the Book of Job
“A land without memories is a people without liberty.”
“A land without ruins is a land without memories - a land without memories is a land without history.”
Source: Poems ...
“A landfill collects what’s thrown away. And in a thoughtless culture, a library graciously does the same thing.”
“A landline is an anchor - busy signals, long distance bills, missed connections and all.”
“A landlord is showing a couple around an apartment. The husband looks up and says, 'Wait a minute. This apartment doesn't have a ceiling.' The landlord answers, 'That's OK. The people upstairs don't walk around that much.'”
“A landscape clean and crisp in form and colour, rich in inspiration is all that an artist could wish for, begging to be used, and full of inherent possibilities.”
“A landscape fossilized,
It's stone-wall patternings
Repeated before our eyes
In the stone walls of Mayo.
Before I turned to go
He talked about persistence,
A congruence of lives,
How, stubbed and cleared of stones,
His home accrued growth rings
Of iron, flint and bronze
- "Belderg”
Source: North
“A landscape image cuts across all political and national boundaries, it transcends the constraints of language and culture.”
“A landscape painting in which composition is ignored is like a line taken from a poem at random: it lacks context, and may or may not make sense.”
“A landscape painting is essentially emotional in origin. It exists as a record of an effect in nature whose splendour has moved a human heart, and according as it is well or ill done it moves the hearts of others.”
“A landscape, torn by mists and clouds, in which I can see ruins of old churches, as well as of Greek temples - that is Brahms.”
Source: Letters to colleagues and friends
“A lang, lang time ago…” MacPhee began, ignoring St.Vincent’s low groan, “there was a bonnie maid called Malvina. She was the betrothed of Oscar, the braw warrior who won her heart. Oscar bade his beloved tae wait for him while he went tae seek his fortune. But one black day Malvina received word that her lover had been killed in battle. He would lie forever in eternal rest in the faraway hills…lost in endless slumber…” “God, I envy him,” St. Vincent said feelingly, rubbing his own dark-circled eyes.”
Source: The Devil In Winter: Number 3 in series
“A language does not become fixed. The human intellect is always on the march, or, if you prefer, in movement, and languages with it.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)
“A language is a dialect with an army and navy
אַ שפּראַך איז אַ דיאַלעקט מיט אַן אַרמיי און פֿלאָט
a shprakh iz a dyalekt mit an armey un flot”
Source: Max Weinriech's 'Geschichte der juddischen Sprachforschung'
“A language is a freeway to a culture.”
Source: Karadeniz Chronicle: The Novel
“A language is a map of our failures”
Source: Poemas, 1963-2000
“A language is a more ancient and inevitable thing than any state.”