W Quotes
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“We are thankful to come here for rest, sir," said Jenny. "You see, you don't know what the rest of this place is to us; does he, Lizzie? It's the quiet, and the air."
"The quiet!" repeated Fledgeby, with a contemptuous turn of his head towards the City's roar. "And the air!" with a "Poof!" at the smoke.
"Ah!" said Jenny. "But it's so high. And you see the clouds rushing on above the narrow streets, not minding them, and you see the golden arrows pointing at the mountains in the sky from which the wind comes, and you feel as if you were dead."
The little creature looked above her, holding up her slight transparent hand.
"How do you feel when you are dead?" asked Fledgeby, much perplexed.
"Oh, so tranquil!" cried the little creature, smiling. "Oh, so peaceful and so thankful! And you hear the people who are alive, crying, and working, and calling to one another down in the close dark streets, and you seem to pity them so! And such a chain has fallen from you, and such a strange good sorrowful happiness comes upon you!"
Her eyes fell on the old man, who, with his hands folded, quietly looked on.
"Why it was only just now," said the little creature, pointing at him, "that I fancied I saw him come out of his grave! He toiled out at that low door so bent and worn, and then he took his breath and stood upright, and looked all round him at the sky, and the wind blew upon him, and his life down in the dark was over!—Till he was called back to life," she added, looking round at Fledgeby with that lower look of sharpness. "Why did you call him back?"
"He was long enough coming, anyhow," grumbled Fledgeby.
"But you are not dead, you know," said Jenny Wren. "Get down to life!"
Mr Fledgeby seemed to think it rather a good suggestion, and with a nod turned round. As Riah followed to attend him down the stairs, the little creature called out to the Jew in a silvery tone, "Don't be long gone. Come back, and be dead!" And still as they went down they heard the little sweet voice, more and more faintly, half calling and half singing, "Come back and be dead, Come back and be dead!”
Source: Our Mutual Friend
“We are that drop in the ocean of the cosmos which contains within itself the entire cosmos. (p. 12)”
Source: Doorway to Spiritual Awakening: Becoming Partakers of the Divine
“We are that strange species that constructs artifacts intended to counter the natural flow of forgetting.”
Source: Distrust That Particular Flavor
“We are that tree," he said, then rode ahead...
It was twisted and small but green, growing sideways in defiance of gravity. It lived where nothing had any business thriving.
Lana did not know whether her father meant the two of them or all of Wallachia. In her mind, the two had become indistinguishable. We are that tree, she thought..We defy death, to grow.”
Source: And I Darken
“We are that which activates the body.”
“We are the "can do" country. We adjust to situations better than any people in the history of the world... We adjust to change.”
“We are the 2 am friendly strangers who give new meaning to loneliness.”
“We are the accidental result of an unplanned process ... the fragile result of an enormous concatenation of improbabilities, not the predictable product of any definite process.”
“We are the accumulation of the dreams of generations”
“We are the administrators of our money. We will have to give God an account of the use we make of it up to the last cent.”
“We are the ancestors of our grandchildren's children. We look after them, just as our ancestors look after us. We aren't here for ourselves. We are here for each other and for the children of our grandchildren.”
“We are the ancestors of the future and what we do now will have an impact.”
“We are the ancestors of those gardening the universe.”
“We are the arbiters of our destiny.”
“We are the archenemy of our own salvation, and the Shepherd must fight first of all with us - for us.”
Source: The Lord
“We are the architects of our own happiness”
“We are the author of our own destruction.”
Source: The Mountain of Ignorance
“We are the authors of our lives. We write books every day, but some of us never sit down and read them.”
“We are the authors of our own fate-we write it each day with every one of our actions.”
Source: The Map of Time: A Novel
“We are the authors of the stories our soul unfolds.”
“We are the awe in existence.”
Source: Poetry book Alone in a Boat
“We are the bad ones in their story, and they are the bad ones in ours. In the end, everyone sees what they want to see, and no one thinks they are wrong.”
Source: Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
“We are the beat of nature's heart,
the earth is our heaven
and the sun our breath,
through our heart journey's the eternity unfolds
and encircles us with her gentle hands,
there is no end or return, no answer,
just one spark flickers.”
Source: NON - DUALITY: THE PARTICIPATORY UNIVERSE
“We are the bees of the invisible. We madly gather the honey of the visible to store it in the great golden hive of the invisible.”
“We are the beginning ... We always have been. This time, let it be more than a beginning.”
“We are the benefactors of too much sacrifice and blood, sweat and tears to allow petty differences and trivial discrepancies to continue to separate and divide US, while we are being used, exploited and conquered.”
“We are the best team of the tournament and deserved the title but luck did not favour us. I think the future of this team is good. If we play more friendly matches and target the SAFF Championship, I think this team can deliver that title.”
“We are the Bibles the world is reading; We are the creeds the world is needing; We are the sermons the world is heeding.”
“We are the biggest donor to the United Nations, contributing 22 percent of the regular operating budget and nearly 27 percent of the peacekeeping budget.”
“We are the biggest sissies in the jungle. Every other animal is stronger than we are - they have fangs, they have claws, they have nimbleness, they have speed. We think Usain Bolt is fast - Usain Bolt can get his ass kicked by a squirrel.”
“We are the bird's eggs. Bird's eggs, flowers, butterflies, rabbits, cows, sheep, we are caterpillars; we are leaves of ivy and springs of wildflower. We are women. We rise from the wave. We are gazelle and doe, elephant and whale, lilies and roses and peach, we are air, we are flame, we are oyster and pearl, we are girls. We are woman and nature. And he says he cannot hear us speak. But we hear.”
“We are the blood
of the witches
you thought were dead.
We carry witchcraft in our bones
whilst magic still sings
inside out heads.
When the witch hunters
imprisoned out ancestors
when they tried to burn the magic away.
Someone should have
warned them
that magic cannot be tamed.
Because you cannot burn away
what has always
been aflame.”
“we are the boat
returning to dock
we are the footprints
on the northern trail
we are the iron
coloring the soil
we cannot
be erased”
Source: Before the Next Bomb Drops: Rising Up from Brooklyn to Palestine
“We are the bones of this city, the heart, the womb. The hidden structure and architecture behind the beautiful facades. We are unseen yet leaned upon, vessels yet not empty, the home for our families. The hopes of our city are thrust upon us, and we will be punished if we fail.”
Source: The Virgins of Venice
“We are the bourgeoisie—the third estate, as they call us now—and what we want is a nobility of merit, nothing more. We don't recognize this lazy nobility we now have, we reject our present class hierarchy. We want all men to be free and equal, for no one to be someone else's subject, but for all to be subject to the law. There should be an end of privileges and arbitrary power. Everyone should be treated equally as a child of the state, and just as there are no longer any middlemen between the layman and his God, so each citizen should stand in direct relation to the state. We want freedom of the press, of employment, of commerce. We want all men to compete without any special privileges, and the only crown should be the crown of merit.”
Source: Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family
“We are the breakers of our own hearts”
Source: One Time, One Place: Mississippi in the Depression : a Snapshot Album
“We are the bright new stars born of a screaming black hole, the nascent suns burst from the darkness, from the grasping void of space that folds and swallows--a darkness that would devour anyone not as strong as we. We are oddities, sideshows, talk show subjects. We capture everyone's imagination.”
Source: A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genius: A Memoir Based on a True Story
“We are the brightest Star of our sky though we often fail to notice our own brilliance in the presence of others' light.”
Source: Once Upon a Reader
“We are the buffoons of our children.”
Source: The Works of Aretino: Biography: de Sanctis. The letters. The sonnets. Appendix
“We are the bullies of the earth: strong, foul, coarse, greedy, careless, indifferent to others, laying waste as we proceed, leaving wounds, welts, lesions, suppurations on the earth body, increasingly engulfed by our own ordure and, finally, abysmally ignorant of the way the world works, crowing our superiority over all life.”
“We are the canaries in the mine. If we go, the last ecosystems go. So does the wisdom of how to sustain resources, live in balance with nature, and create communities based on cooperation, not competition. I think the rest of the world is searching for these values. I know we're here to share them. But we can only share them if we're here.”
“We are the Captains of Spaceship Earth...we have the capacity to overcome our limits.”
“We are the carriers of health and disease - either the divine health of courage and nobility or the demonic diseases of hate and anxiety”
“We are the cause of a world that's gone wrong. Nature will survive us, we've been wrong after all. We are the cause of a world that's gone wrong. Wouldn't it be great to heal the world with only a song?”
“We are the centuries... We have your eoliths and your mesoliths and your neoliths. We have your Babylons and your Pompeiis, your Caesars and your chromium-plated (vital-ingredient impregnated) artifacts. We have your bloody hatchets and your Hiroshimas. We march in spite of Hell, we do – Atrophy, Entropy, and Proteus vulgaris, telling bawdy jokes about a farm girl name of Eve and a traveling salesman called Lucifer. We bury your dead and their reputations. We bury you. We are the centuries. Be born then, gasp wind, screech at the surgeon’s slap, seek manhood, taste a little godhood, feel pain, give birth, struggle a little while, succumb: (Dying, leave quietly by the rear exit, please.) Generation, regeneration, again, again, as in a ritual, with blood-stained vestments and nail-torn hands, children of Merlin, chasing a gleam. Children, too, of Eve, forever building Edens – and kicking them apart in berserk fury because somehow it isn’t the same. (AGH! AGH! AGH! – an idiot screams his mindless anguish amid the rubble. But quickly! let it be inundated by the choir, chanting Alleluias at ninety decibels.)”
Source: A Canticle For Leibowitz
“We are the change we have been waiting for.”
“We are the change we seek.”
“We are the change we're waiting for.”
“We are the children equally of the Sky and the Earth.”
Source: Cosmos
“We are the children of a technological age. We have found streamlined ways of doing much of our routine work. Printing is no longer the only way of reproducing books. Reading them, however, has not changed.”
Source: Books are basic: the essential Lawrence Clark Powell