Best sound & earth Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“How on earth could that be done? If you try to laugh and say 'No' at the same time, it sounds like neighing - yet people are perpetually doing it in novels. If they did it in real life they would be locked up.”

People Ifs Writing Trying Real Done Would Be Earth Sound Novel Laughing Real Life Locked Locked Up

Author:Hilaire Belloc

“The sound of the freezing of snow over the land seemed to roar deep into the earth. There was no moon. The stars, almost too many of them to be true, came forward so brightly that it was as if they were falling with the swiftness of the void. As the stars came nearer, the sky retreated deeper and deeper into the night color. The layers of the Border Range, indistinguishable one from another, cast their heaviness at the skirt of the starry sky in a blackness grave and somber enough to communicate their mass. The whole of the night scene came together in a clear, tranquil harmony.”

Source: Snow Country

“When the Son on the Cross promises paradise in his company to the good thief, when he promises the future feast in Heaven to the Apostles, when he speaks of the kingdom of the Father, he is always pointing toward eternity. However brief and close to the earth his words sound, they echo throughout infinite eternity and permeate the faith of his followers with their eternal content. He knows what he speaks of, what he brings with him and what he promises; and he can convey it to those who know it not. The very words he uses are designed to awaken in them a new sense: the sense of the eternal.”

Knows Use Earth Father Speak Heaven Sound Company Son Promise Eternal Crosses Eternity Infinite Kingdoms Paradise Followers Thieves Echoes Pointing Apostles

Author:Adrienne von Speyr

“By suggestion and example, I believe children can be helped to hear the many voices about them. Take Time to listen and talk about the voices of the earth and what they mean-the majestic voice of thunder, the winds, the sound of surf or flowing streams.”

Believe Mean Children Earth I Believe Sound Voice Example Wind Streams Take Time Suggestions Thunder Surf Majestic

Book:The Sense of Wonder

Source: The Sense of Wonder

“There’s only one Earth, and it’s tiny, but evil human leaders avoid problems they don’t want to resolve by giving them names which make the problems sound like they’re taking place in a different world: they make people not care about other people dying of starvation by calling the place the dying live “the third world.”

People World Want Giving Humans Different Problem Care Earth Evil Names Sound Leader Dying Calling Thirds Tiny Resolve Starvation Third World Different Worlds People Dying

Author:Craig Stone

“Ah! from the soul itself must issue forth A light, a glory, a fair luminous cloud Enveloping the Earth And from the soul itself must there be sent A sweet and potent voice, of its own birth Of all sweet sounds the life and element!”

Soul Light Earth Sound Voice Issues Sweet Birth Elements Glory Fairs Clouds Luminous

Author:Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“"You sound as if you question the authority and the decision of the Oracle, who said he should die." "I do not. Why should I? But the Oracle did not ask me to carry out its decision." [...] "The Earth cannot punish me for obeying her mesenger," Okonkwo said. "A child's fingers are not scalded by a piece of hot yam which its mother puts into its palm."”

Ifs Should Children Said Earth Mother Dies Asks Sound Decision Pieces Authority Hot Fingers Ask Me Should I Palms Obeying Oracles Things Fall Apart Okonkwo Yams Okonkwo

Author:Chinua Achebe

“I'd say it's that most people think that very wealthy people take huge risks and that's why they have huge rewards. But the very best on earth are completely obsessed with not losing money. That sounds overly simplistic, but they know that if you lost 50 percent, it takes 100 percent to get even. Most people don't make that math in their head, so it takes years and years. They are obsessed with not losing money.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Years Earth Lost Sound Risk Huge Losing Percent Rewards Math Obsessed Wealthy Losing Money

Author:Tony Robbins

“The laughter of girls is, and ever was, among the delightful sounds of earth.”

Earth Girl Sound Laughter Delightful

Book:De Quincey's works

Source: De Quincey's works

“We must make a great difference between God's Word and the word of man. A man's word is a little sound, that flies into the air, and soon vanishes; but the Word of God is greater than heaven and earth, yea, greater than death and hell, for it forms part of the power of God, and endures everlastingly.”

Men Littles Earth Form Heaven Sound Differences Hell Greater Air Endure Word Of God Heaven And Earth Power Of God

Book:The table talk or familiar discourse of Martin Luther, tr. by W. Hazlitt

Source: The table talk or familiar discourse of Martin Luther, tr. by W. Hazlitt

“If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you different from earth, wood or stone? You must seek without seeking.”

Ifs Different Earth Form Sound Stones Seeking Woods

Author:Wumen Huikai

“A river is water is its loveliest form; rivers have life and sound and movement and infinity of variation, rivers are veins of the earth through which the lifeblood returns to the heart”

Heart Earth Form Sound Water Sea Movement Return Rivers Fishes Boat Lakes Fishing Infinity Veins Variation

Author:Roderick Haig-Brown

“I don't want what I am saying to sound like a prophecy or anything like an analysis of modern society .... these are only feelings I have, and I am the least speculative man on earth.”

Men Want Feelings Earth Sound Modern Analysis Prophecy Modern Society

Author:Michelangelo Antonioni

“It's very important for the coming times to have a sound economic base and to be as mobile as possible. The energy lines will be shifting strongly as we enter into the end phase of the earth's cycle.”

Important Ends Earth Success Energy Sound Lines Careers Economic Buddhism Cycles Phases Shifting Mobile

Author:Frederick Lenz

“What happiness it is to listen to rain at night; joyful relief, ease; a lapping-round and hushing and brooding tenderness, all are mingled together in the sound of the fast-falling rain. God, looking down upon the rainy earth, sees how faint are these lights shining in little windows, - how easily put out.”

Littles Light Earth Together Night Fall Sound Rain Window Shining Rounds Ease Relief Joyful Tenderness Rainy Brooding Looking Down Rain At Night

Author:Katherine Mansfield

“Twas in heaven pronounced - it was muttered in hell, / And echo caught faintly the sound as it fell; / On the confines of earth 'twas permitted to rest, / And the depth of the ocean its presence confessed. / Yet in shade let it rest, like a delicate flower, / Ah, breathe on it softly, it dies in an hour.”

Earth Dies Heaven Sound Hours Hell Flower Ocean Depth Caught Breathe Shade Delicate Verses Echoes Delicate Flower

Author:Catherine Maria Fanshawe

“Once in his life, a man ought to concentrate his mind upon the remembered earth, I believe. He ought to give himself up to a particular landscape in his experience, to look at it from as many angles as he can, to wonder about it, to dwell upon it. He ought to imagine that he touches it with his hands at every season and listens to the sounds that are made upon it. He ought to imagine the creatures there and all the faintest motions of the wind. He ought to recollect the glare of noon and all the colors of the dawn and dusk.”

Source: The Way to Rainy Mountain

“If our solar system is not unusual, then there are so many planets in the universe that, for example, they outnumber the sum of all sounds and words ever uttered by every human who has ever lived. To declare that Earth must be the only planet with life in the universe would be inexcusably bigheaded of us.”

Ifs Humans Would Be Earth Universe Sound Example Planets Aliens Unusual Solar System

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“Listen to the sound of the earth turning.”

Earth Sound

Author:Yoko Ono

“The heavy sensual shoulders, the thighs, the blood-born flesh and earth turning into color, rocks into their crystals, water to sound, fire to form: life flickers uncounted into the supple arms of love.”

Earth Form Sound Water Born Fire Blood Rocks Color Arms Heavy Flesh Shoulders Sensuality Sensual Crystals Thighs Flicker Supple

Book:Out of silence: selected poems

Source: Out of silence: selected poems

“Have you ever been up in your plane at night, alone, somewhere, 20,000 feet above the ocean?... Did you ever hear music up there?... It's the music a man's spirit sings to his heart, when the earth's far away and there isn't any more fear. It's the high, fine, beautiful sound of an earth-bound creature who grew wings and flew up high and looked straight into the face of the future. And caught, just for an instant, the unbelievable vision of a free man in a free world.”

“Grace! 'tis a charming Sound, Harmonious to my Ear! Heav'n with the Echo shall resound, And all the Earth shall hear.”

Earth Sound Grace Ears Echoes Charming Harmonious

Book:Hymns ... Published from the author's manuscript by Job Orton. The seventh edition

Source: Hymns ... Published from the author's manuscript by Job Orton. The seventh edition

“If I were to do a foundation, it would be to promote solar energy. And I'm worried about drilling for oil. I think it is harming the earth, 'cos it drains the layer of oil under the surface, and that could be causing earthquakes. It's like we're giving the earth arthritis. I don't know if that sounds crazy.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Giving Would Be Earth Energy Sound Crazy Foundation Surface Oil Worried Layers Earthquakes Drains Drilling Arthritis Solar Energy

Author:Debbie Harry

“Still, as Christmas-tide comes round, They remember it again - Echo still the joyful sound "Peace on earth, good-will to men!"”

Men Stills Earth Remember Peace Sound Rounds Tides Joyful Echoes Good Will Peace On Earth

Book:Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass

Source: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass

“I leave to others the sublime delights of riding in the storm, better pleased with sound sleep & a warmer berth below it encircled, with the society of neighbors, friends & fellow laborers of the earth rather than with spies & sycophants ... I have no ambition to govern men. It is a painful and thankless office.”

Source: A Jefferson profile as revealed in his letters

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