“There was once a town in the heart of America where all life seemed to live in harmony with its surroundings Then a strange blight crept over the area and everything began to change There was a strange stillness The few birds seen anywhere were moribund; they trembled violently and could not fly. It was a spring without voices. On the mornings that had once throbbed with the dawn chorus of scores of bird voices there was now no sound; only silence lay over the fields and woods and marsh.” HeartAmericaSoundVoiceSilenceMorningFieldsStrangeSpringBirdAreasTownsHarmonyLaysWoodsDawnScoreStillnessSurroundingsChorusEcoMarshesBlight Author:Rachel Carson
“I never thought that I could make a living out of my voice, to be completely honest. I thought that I could probably keep playing pubs. And it was exciting for me to get even just a pub gig in my town or country, when I went to university.” CountryVoiceHonestExcitingTownsUniversityGigsPubs Author:Ellie Goulding
“I used to do my Nelson Mandela voice to blag restaurant tables in Cape Town. It rarely worked. Now what a great city that is.” UsedVoiceCitiesTownsTablesRestaurantsNelsonGreat CitiesCapesCape Town Author:Rory Bremner
“My mother was devoted to helping people - with my father's money! - who had great voices but didn't have the financial means to study music. He and my mum gave away dozens of music scholarships, and my mum opened a school in town, introduced opera to children and created fantastic programmes.” PeopleMeanChildrenHelpingSchoolMotherFatherVoiceStudyTownsFinancialFantasticDozenOperaDevotedMumHelping PeopleScholarshipProgrammesGreat Voice Author:Salma Hayek
“I look back with gladness to the day when I found the path to the land of heart's desire, and thank Fate ceaselessly with a loud voice that she did not permit the town to sap all the years away while the heart was turning to wind-voices and flower-faces and the hands of kindly earth.” YearsLooksHeartHandsEarthFacesDesireFoundVoicePathFateLandWindFlowerEssentialsGardenTownsLoudPermitGardeningGladnessSapLoud Voices Book:The Garden of Ignorance: The Experiences of a Woman in a Garden Source: The Garden of Ignorance: The Experiences of a Woman in a Garden
“I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.” PoetryVoiceBornPoetGrewGrew UpRainRiversTownsForestsHillsRainy DayRaindropsTimber Author:Pablo Neruda
“When Ke$ha tries to rap like L'Trimm, she sounds like any ordinary lonely teenage girl stuck in a nowhere town, singing along to her radio and dreaming of a party where she's the star. Ke$ha's greatness is that in her voice, you can hear both the loser girl and the star. All hail the Queen of Noi$e!” TryingDreamGirlStarsSoundVoicePartyGreatnessSingingOrdinaryLonelyTownsRadioRapStuckQueensLoserTeenageHailTeenage Girl Author:Rob Sheffield
“One Christmas was so much like another, in those years around the sea-town corner now and out of all sound except the distant speaking of the voices I sometimes hear a moment before sleep, that I can never remember whether it snowed for six days and six nights when I was twelve or whether it snowed for twelve days and twelve nights when I was six.” YearsI CanSometimesMomentsRememberNightSoundVoiceSleepSeaSixTownsCornersTwelve Author:Dylan Thomas
“Is it...dead?" asked Tom, his voice all quivery with fright. "A town just ran over him," said Hester. "I shouldn't think he's very well.” ThinkingWellsSaidVoiceTownsRanTomsFright Book:Predator Cities #1: Mortal Engines Source: Predator Cities #1: Mortal Engines
“NOW, MY BRETHREN!" Poseidon's voice was so loud I wasn't sure if I was hearing it from the smoke image or from all the way across town. "STRIKE FOR OLYMPUS!” IfsWayVoiceTownsHearingStrikesSmokeLoudBrethrenPercy Jackson And The OlympiansPoseidonOlympus Author:Rick Riordan
“I am grateful to have been loved and to be loved now and to be able to love, because that liberates. Love liberates. It doesn't just hold - that's ego. Love liberates. It doesn't bind. Love says, 'I love you. I love you if you're in China. I love you if you're across town. I love you if you're in Harlem. I love you. I would like to be near you. I'd like to have your arms around me. I'd like to hear your voice in my ear. But that's not possible now, so I love you. Go.'” IfsHas BeensAbleVoiceLove IsInspiringCompassionLove YouArmsEgoEarsTownsGratefulChinaThoughtfulLoving LifeSay I Love YouHarlemI Am Grateful Author:Maya Angelou