“Fling out, fling out, with cheer and shout, To all the winds of Our Country's Banner! Be every bar, and every star, Displayed in full and glorious manner! Blow, zephyrs, blow, keep the dear ensign flying! Blow, zephyrs, sweetly mournful, sighing, sighing, sighing!” CountryStarsWindDearBlowFlyingBarsOur CountryGloriousCheerFlagsBannerFlingZephyr Book:The microcosm, and other poems Source: The microcosm, and other poems
“Do not suppose that abuses are eliminated by destroying the object which is abused. Men can go wrong with wine and women. Shall we then prohibit and abolish women? The sun, the moon, and the stars have been worshiped. Shall we then pluck them out of the sky? ...see how much he [God] has been able to accomplish through me, though I did no more than pray and preach. The Word did it all. Had I wished I might have started a conflagration at Worms. But while I sat still and drank beer with Philip and Amsdorf, God dealt the papacy a mighty blow.” MenHas BeensStillsMightAbleStarsSunSkyObjectsPrayingMoonAbuseWineBlowAccomplishBeerSatDestroyingWormsDrankAbolishPluckPhilipWomen And Wine Author:Martin Luther
“There is always in the healthy mind an obscure prompting that religion teaches us rather to dig than to climb; that if we could once understand the common clay of earth we should understand everything. Similarly, we have the sentiment that if we could destroy custom at a blow and see the stars as a child sees them, we should need no other apocalypse. This is the great truth which has always lain at the back of baby-worship, and which will support it to the end.” IfsNeedsShouldMindChildrenEndsEarthStarsCommonTeachSupportBabyHealthyWorshipBlowClimbsCustomsSentimentsObscureApocalypseClayHealthy Mind Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton
“I rise in the dawn, and I kneel and blow Till the seed of the fire flicker and glow; And then I must scrub and bake and sweep Till the stars are beginning to blink and peep; And the young lie long and dream in their bed.” LongDreamYoungLyingStarsWorkFireBedAgingBlowMotherhoodSeedsDawnBlinkFlicker Book:The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats Source: The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats
“A lot of stand-up specials for cable are meant to glorify the comedian. They put you in a really beautiful theater, and sometimes they even blow a little smoke in there to make it misty and sweet. They make the guy look like he's a big rock star. But comedy's not really glamorous. It doesn't enhance comedy for it to look good.” LooksLittlesSometimesBigsBeautifulGuyStarsComedyRocksSweetTheaterBlowSmokeComedianRock StarCablesGlamorousGlorifyReally BeautifulMisty Author:Louis C. K.
“The first in time and the first in importance of the influences upon the mind is that of nature. Every day, the sun; and after sunset, night and her stars. Ever the winds blow; ever the grass grows.” MindFirstsNightStarsGrowsNatureEducationSunInfluenceWindImportanceBlowGrassSunset Book:Nature and Other Essays Source: Nature and Other Essays
“The wind blows out, the bubble dies; The spring entomb'd in autumn lies; The dew dries up; the star is shot; The flight is past, and man forgot.” MenPastLyingDiesStarsWindSpringShotsBlowFlightAutumnBubblesDewForgetfulnessForgetful Author:Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
“A writer like me must have an utter confidence, an utter faith in his star. It's an almost mystical feeling, a feeling of nothing-can-happen-to me, nothing-can-touch-me.... I once had it. But through a series of blows, many of them my own fault, something happened to that sense of immunity and I lost my grip.” FeelingsHappensLostStarsMy OwnHappenedFaultsSeriesBlowLike MeMysticalTouch MeImmunity Author:F. Scott Fitzgerald