Wave Quotes - Page 18

• I get a wave of pride in America when I look back at what we've accomplished in the field of music.

  Johnny Otis

  Pride, America, Looks

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• I hate wars and violence but if they come then I don't see why we women should just wave our men a proud goodbye and then knit them balaclavas.

  Nancy Wake

  Goodbye, Hate, War

  "A belated salute for war heroine" by David Fickling, www.theguardian.com. February 23, 2004.

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• So I got caught up in the same wave as everybody else and went right out to Hollywood, to make movies.

  Kitty Carlisle

  Hollywood, Caught, Caught Up

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• The tidal wave of God's providence is carrying liberty throughout the globe.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Liberty, Providence, Globes

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• Take a deep breath and exhale slowly. Mentally picture all tiredness, tension, and fatigue leaving you. Visualize that a wave of golden light is entering you at the top of your head and passing throughout your entire body.

  Frederick Lenz

  Light, Leaving, Entering

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• Picture that the waves of golden light have now become a solid river of golden light that is constantly passing through you. Picture this golden light expanding beyond your body and filling up the entire room.

  Frederick Lenz

  Light, Filling Up, Rivers

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• Imagine a vast ocean. Feel that you are part of that ocean. Imagine that each wave in the ocean is slowly moving through you. Feel that each wave is a wave of joy.

  Frederick Lenz

  Ocean, Moving, Joy

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• Imagine wave after wave of joy passing through your whole body. As each wave passes through your body, feel that all worries, tensions, anxieties and problems are being washed away.

  Frederick Lenz

  Worry, Joy, Anxiety

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• Never put more than two waves in a picture; it's fussy.

  Winslow Homer

  Inspiring, Art, Two

  Winslow Homer, Lloyd Goodrich, Whitney Museum of American Art (1973). “Winslow Homer”

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• The Samsara is the movement of life. And you, an individual self, a form, a moment on a wave, are bound.

  Frederick Lenz

  Ignorance, Self, Movement

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• There are physical karmas that carry through death. Jesus Christ may no longer be with us but his effects continue on in the world. Those waves will be passed on from one person to another to another.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Jesus, World

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• The universe is pretty cool. You always exist in one form or another. You are a wave and you are changing and moving from one level to another.

  Frederick Lenz

  Moving, Levels, Rebirth

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• When the war broke out I decided I would be very patriotic. Standing my full height. I presented myself to the Wacs and the to the Waves. And I was rejected - I was an inch too tall.

  Julia Child

  War, Patriotic, Would Be

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• And so the Word had breath, and wrought With human hands the creed of creeds In loveliness of perfect deeds, More strong than all poetic thoughts; Which he may read that binds the sheaf, Or builds the house, or digs the grave, And those wild eyes that watch the waves In roarings round the coral reef.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Strong, Eye, Hands

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2014). “Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Selected Poetry: A Broadview Anthology of British Literature Edition”, p.122, Broadview Press

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• He paints a dolphin in the woods, a boar in the waves.

  Horace

  Dolphins, Woods, Painting

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 576-77, Ars Poetica, XXX, 1922.

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• For now I stand as one upon a rock environed with a wilderness of sea, who marks the waxing tide grow wave by wave, expecting ever when some envious surge will in his brinish bowels swallow him.

  William Shakespeare

  Ocean, Rocks, Sea

  William Shakespeare (2011). “Titus Andronicus and Timon of Athens: Two Classical Plays”, p.57, Palgrave Macmillan

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• Build me straight. O worthy Master! Staunch and strong, a goodly vessel That shall laugh at all disaster, And with wave and whirlwind wrestle!

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Strong, Laughing, Ships

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.121, Library of America

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• Whilst breezy waves toss up their silvery spray.

  Thomas Hood

  Ocean, Toss, Breezy

  Thomas Hood (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Thomas Hood (Illustrated)”, p.313, Delphi Classics

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• Soft as Memnon's harp at morning, To the inward ear devout, Touched by light, with heavenly warning Your transporting chords ring out. Every leaf in every nook, Every wave in every brook, Chanting with a solemn voice Minds us of our better choice.

  John Keble

  Morning, Voice, Light

  John Keble (1829). “The Christian year, thoughts in verse for the Sundays and holydays throughout the year [by J. Keble].”, p.52

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• Yet I will look upon thy face again, My own romantic Bronx, and it will be A face more pleasant than the face of men. Thy waves are old companions, I shall see A well remembered form in each old tree And hear a voice long loved in thy wild minstrelsy.

  Joseph Rodman Drake

  Men, Voice, Rivers

  Joseph Rodman Drake (1835). “The Culprit Fay: And Other Poems”, p.77

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• Oh, say can you see by the dawn's early light What so proudly we hailed as the twilight's last gleaming? Whose broad stripes and bright stars thru the perilous fight O'er the ramplarts we watched were so gallantly streaming? And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there. Oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

  Francis Scott Key

  Stars, Twilight, Home

  "The Star-Spangled Banner" (song) st. 1 (1814)

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• Man on the dubious waves of error toss'd.

  William Cowper

  Men, Errors, Dubious

  Cowper: Poetical Works Truth l. 1

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• And little eagles wave their wings in gold.

  Alexander Pope

  Eagles, Wings, Gold

  Alexander Pope (1867). “Poetical Works, with Life of the Author and Notes”, p.452

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• And soften'd sounds along the waters die: Smooth flow the waves, the zephyrs gently play.

  Alexander Pope

  Play, Water, Sound

  Alexander Pope, William Lisle Bowles, William Warburton, Joseph Warton (1806). “The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Memoirs of the life and writings of Pope. Recommendatory poems. A discourse on pastoral poetry. Pastorals. Messiah. Windsor forest. Odes. Two chorus's to the tragedy of Brutus. The dying Christian to his soul. An essay on criticism. The rape of the lock. Elegy to the memory of an unfortunate lady. Prologue to Mr. Addison's tragedy of Cato. Epilogue to Mr. Rowe's Jane Shore”, p.316

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• As the moon's fair image quaketh In the raging waves of ocean, Whilst she, in the vault of heaven, Moves with silent peaceful motion.

  Heinrich Heine

  Ocean, Moving, Moon

  Heinrich Heine (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Heinrich Heine (Illustrated)”, p.310, Delphi Classics

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