“When fishes flew and forests walked And figs grew upon thorn, Some moment when the moon was blood Then surely I was born. With monstrous head and sickening cry And ears like errant wings, The devil's walking parody On all four-footed things.” MomentsBornFourBloodCryGrewBirthWalkingMoonDevilEarsWingsFishesForestsFlewMonstrousParodyFigs Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton
“I think with each generation comes more opportunity. At least that's the way that I see it. I grew up in a generation that watched the birth of the internet. We all have. But I feel like I look around at the generation younger than me and it's a very opportunistic mantra.” ThinkingWayFeelsLooksOpportunityGenerationsGrewBirthInternetGrew UpMantras Author:Justin Timberlake
“Some people grew up in the '70s, powerful, beautiful memories of the '70s which to me is one of the worst decades. It has something to do with that. Has something to with the birth of rock 'n' roll, and something to do with those American cars. an incredible design. There was so much optimism at that time and it must leak into the process.” PeopleBeautifulProcessMemoriesPowerfulWorstRocksCarDesignGrewBirthGrew UpOptimismIncrediblesDecadesRock N RollLeaksBeautiful MemoriesAmerican Cars Author:David Lynch
“I grew tired of religion some time not long after birth. I believe in people, I believe in humans, I believe in a car, but I don't believe something I can't have absolutely no evidence of for millenniums. And it's funny, people think analysis or psychiatry is mad, and they go to church.” PeopleThinkingBelieveHumansLongI CanI BelieveChurchCarGrewBirthEvidenceMadTiredDon't BelieveI Believe InAnalysisPsychiatryFunny People Author:John Malkovich
“I've been into fashion since birth. I grew up in the 'hood, and everybody in the 'hood wants to compensate for being in poverty, so they want to look good to keep themselves up.” WantLooksPovertyFashionGrewBirthGrew UpHood Author:ASAP Rocky
“I know that my companions from the moment of birth were heaven's choicest souls. I grew side by side with them, in fact all the education and inspiration came over them.” KnowsSoulMomentsFactsInspirationHeavenSidesGrewBirthCompanion Author:Victoria Woodhull
“I grew up in a family in which there was very little religion. My father wasn't religious at all. But he was really interested in the subject of, you know, the birth and growth of Islam. And he basically transmitted that interest to me.” KnowsLittlesFatherGrowthInterestReligiousSubjectsGrewBirthGrew UpIslam Author:Salman Rushdie
“Morning drew on apace. The air became more sharp and piercing, as its first dull hue: the death of night, rather than the birth of day: glimmered faintly in the sky. The objects which had looked dim and terrible in the darkness, grew more and more defined, and gradually resolved into their familiar shapes. The rain came down, thick and fast; and pattered, noisily, among the leafless bushes.” FirstsNightMorningDarknessAirSkyObjectsGrewBirthTerribleShapesRainFamiliarDefinedDullThickGloomHuePiercings Book:Oliver Twist Source: Oliver Twist
“As I thought of these things, I drew aside the curtains and looked out into the darkness, and it seemed to my troubled fancy that all those little points of light filling the sky were the furnaces of innumerable divine alchemists, who labour continually, turning lead into gold, weariness into ecstasy, bodies into souls, the darkness into God; and at their perfect labour my mortality grew heavy, and I cried out, as so many dreamers and men of letters in our age have cried, for the birth of that elaborate spiritual beauty which could alone uplift souls weighted with so many dreams.” MenLittlesSoulDreamBodyLightAgeSpiritualPerfectDarknessSkyDivineGrewBirthLettersGoldHeavyUpliftingFancyLabourMortalityEcstasyDreamerCriedCurtainsFillingAlchemistWearinessFurnacesPoints Of LightSpiritual Beauty Book:The Yeats companion Source: The Yeats companion